History Main / CuteMonsterGirl

* In ''Anime/{{Naruto}}'' while the males of the Sound Four all look hideous when they activate their [[OneWingedAngel cursed seals]] (even {{Bishonen}} dudes like Kimimaro and Sasuke), DarkChick Tayuya still looks [[https://pa1.narvii.com/5886/f18936d4480d22b6969301d576f20e305785fc8f_hq.gif cute]] regardless.

* A common trope with ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' villainesses. The majority of villain teams are 3-4 male PeopleInRubberSuits and one hot (and very human) DarkChick whose monster-ness clearly appears to be worn and not integral.

* The females of Chaka's people in ''Series/LandOfTheLost'' might qualify. The males look like they did in the series (i.e. like humanoid chimps). The females are {{Nubile Savage}}s.

* The Eels song My Beloved Monster, best known from the first WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} movie, is most likely describing one of these. The title [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin sort of gives it away]].

* Fiona of ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' is still fairly pretty for an ogress, despite indulging in the usual icky ogre habits.

* A common trope with ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' and ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' villainesses. The majority of villain teams are 3-4 male PeopleInRubberSuits and one hot (and very human) DarkChick whose monster-ness clearly appears to be worn and not integral (often, there will also be one older male human leading them). Of ''Power Rangers'' series, every season has one except ''[[Series/PowerRangersZeo Zeo]]'', ''[[Series/PowerRangersMysticForce Mystic Force]]'', and every season after ''[[Series/PowerRangersRPM RPM]]'' -- which all still have attractive female villains, just of the rubber suit variety. There are even a few [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters of the Week]] who might qualify, such as [[Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy Icy Angel]], but they tended to be rare.
** [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Scorpina]]/[[Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger Lamia]] is an attractive young woman in gold armor normally, but when [[MakeMyMonsterGrow gigantified]] looks like a horrible, lizard-faced scorpion monster.
** [[Series/PowerRangersZeo Archerina]], wife of Prince Gasket, is a very pretty robot girl. She's also manipulative and uses her magic love arrows to turn her opponents on each other.
** [[Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue Vypra]] looks like a beautiful woman in demonic armor more than a demon. She's also the only one to look mostly human out of her show's antagonists.
** [[Series/PowerRangersMysticForce Itassis]], the only female of the Ten Terrors, is a pretty, sphinx-like monster who ends up turning good and being one of the few to survive the series. Serpentina, a MonsterOfTheWeek, similarly has has some appealing features but in contrast is vile inside. Necrolai isn't so pretty, but she too reforms and reverts to a human form.
** [[Series/PowerRangersSamurai Dayu]] looks like she might be quite the looker under that squid-like helmet. Unless it's actually her head.
** [[Series/PowerRangersMegaforce Levira]] has one of the less monstrous designs for her series. [[spoiler:She doesn't last, though.]] Similarly, Metal Alice is on the more human-like and alluring side. [[spoiler:She doesn't last, either.]]
** [[Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge Poisandra]] ''thinks'' she is, but her cuteness is skin-deep. 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.

* ''ARG/WelcomeHome'' has Julie Joyful, a "rainbow monster" who looks like an ordinary girl save for her short, candy-corn-colored horns. Her siblings look more monstrous with their colorful skin and longer horns, but still fall more towards the "cute" side of the spectrum... though being [[{{Muppet}} Muppets]] this is to be expected.

* Mayu of ''LightNovel/GoodLuckNinomiyaKun''. For a succubus, she's cute, busty, and DoesNotLikeMen. She's training to work on the last part, though. Later, her [[spoiler:friend and love rival Reika]] is revealed to be a succubus as well, albeit without the Androphobia, instead having a healthy dose of CannotSpitItOut.

* ''Film/TheMummy2017'' has Ahmanet, who's very pretty...once she devours enough lifeforce, that is.

* Zombie Julie in ''Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDead3'' still looks pretty cute even after she impales most of her body with metal spikes and glass shards to stave off the pain of undeath.

* ''Anime/MagicalPokaan'' gives us ''four'' Cute Monster Girls - a [[WolfMan werewolf]], a [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampires vampire]], a [[CuteWitch witch]], and an [[RobotGirl android]]. The student council in ''LightNovel/DemonKingDaimao'' has the exact same four characters.

* The dragon Sylphid from ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'' [[VoluntaryShapeshifting can change her shape]]. Her human form looks like an ordinary girl with blue hair.

%%* ''LightNovel/IsThisAZombie'': Virtually every female introduced, except Haruna, a MagicalGirl, and the two girls who are {{Muggles}}. ZERO CONTEXT EXAMPLE

* This is the point of the ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'' series, with bonus DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu levels. All the {{Eldritch Abomination}}s appear in completely humanoid (and rather cute) forms, but the most diabetes-inducingly cute character ([[spoiler:Hastur]]) is a boy.

* Almost every member of the UnwantedHarem in ''Manga/OmamoriHimari''. There's a CatGirl with GagBoobs, a {{Meido}} tea-cup spirit with even bigger GagBoobs, a TokenMiniMoe water-snake spirit EmotionlessGirl, and a blood-thirsty {{Yandere}} forest spirit.

* ''Webcomic/DMOfTheRings'' subverts this for laughs: [[AnythingThatMoves Aragorn]] assumes that the Ents will be attractive, Dryad-like PlantPeople and is [[http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1125 quite dismayed]] to meet a craggy old tree with a bearded face instead.

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In the episode "Quality of Mercy", a captured SpaceCadet (Nicole De Boer) is being forcibly transformed by her alien captors into one of their own against her will. The slow alterations they implement don't change her outward beauty much, and her cellmate, Major John Stokes, falls in love with her. [[spoiler:This was part of their plan all along, since she's actually one of the aliens sent to spy on him to obtain valuable military information.]]

** Though most [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Borg]] of any sex don't look particularly appealing, the Borg queen is decidedly sexier looking than any of her drones. Also, [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Seven of Nine]] is quite attractive but only once most of her more Borg-like physical attributes are removed via surgery.
*** Even when Seven is still fully Borg she has noticeable ...implants. Apparently breasts are not irrelevant, despite the existence of Borg maturation chambers.
** The Vidiians suffer from [[BodyHorror a disfiguring disease called the Phage]], but strangely the Doctor's love interest Denara Pel still retains some of her facial good looks. At least more so than any other Vidiian we see.
** In ''Star Trek VI'', Rosanna De Soto's Klingon character had much less pronounced brow ridges than most of the male Klingons. But then, so did Christopher Plummer.
** Klingons fall into this trope even in ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. In the episode "Day of the Dove" we get to see both Klingon men and women. The men all have brutish expressions concealed under thick {{Blackface}} makeup while the women have spray on tans, and garish blue eye shadow. The retconned explanation for the more humanoid Klingons is that they were engineered to look like humans for easier interaction, so it'd be logical for the females to be attractive to humans.

* A [[UncannyValley thoroughly creepy]] version of this trope arises in ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001''. 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 kisses her at the end!]]

* In ''Literature/CodexAlera'', Her Imperial Bugginess the [[HiveQueen Vord Queen]] ''tries'', but mostly just manages to [[UncannyValley give everyone the creeps]] by combining a "[[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe green]] Kitai with long hair" look with a few too many insectile features and a frightening lack of understanding of human emotion.

** Medusas, [[GorgeousGorgon unsurprisingly]], [[ZigZaggingTrope zigzag]] depending on the edition. Those in 1st edition were horribly ugly, 2nd edition made them very comely if you could look past the snake hair (without being TakenForGranite), 3rd edition kept the comely bodies but the effect was somewhat marred by the scales [[ButterFace and a face that looked like a cross between a viper and a hag]], and 4th edition seems to go for a middle-of-the-road approach. ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', meanwhile, takes the "playmate with mildly scaly skin and snakes for hair" road.
** Advanced (2nd edition) and 4th edition also features a gender flipped version -- there are indeed male Medusas, but apart from being [[BaldOfEvil bald]], they're actually pretty handsome. This is the only way they differ from normal humans in 2e, and 4e's versions are scaly like their ladyfolk, so for them the baldness isn't that bad).

* Celty from ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' is a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dullahan Dullahan]] that looks like a beautiful, though deathly pale, woman from the neck down. From the neck up? Well, [[HeadlessHorseman she has no head]]. [[spoiler:When we ''do'' finally see her head, it's that of a cute, auburn-haired girl -- A far cry from the hideous, rotten-fleshed heads of the Dullahan of Celtic legend.]]

%%* ''LightNovel/IsThisAZombie'': Virtually every female introduced, except Haruna, a MagicalGirl, and the two girls who are {{Muggle}}s. ZERO CONTEXT EXAMPLE
* The animal people in ''Literature/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon?'' could qualify, but they're not actually considered monsters in universe. [[spoiler: However, the Xenos ([[ItCanThink sapient versions of otherwise unthinking monsters]]) are. A DraconicHumanoid with an unusually human appearance ends up becoming a part of Bell's harem... and by extension, gets Bell into a lot of hot water, as Xenos suffer from FantasticRacism thanks to the perception that they must be AlwaysChaoticEvil.]]

* Various female demons in ''LightNovel/{{Maoyu}}''. 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 (the horns she has as demon lord are actually a removable headdress).

[[caption-width-right:350:Clockwise from upper left: [[Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons White Chain]], [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 Mantis]], [[LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon Rei]], [[VideoGame/CoffeeTalk Lua]], [[VideoGame/Splatoon2 Marina]], and [[VideoGame/ChildOfLight Genovefa]].]]

* The animal people in ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon?'' could qualify, but they're not actually considered monsters in universe. [[spoiler: However, the Xenos ([[ItCanThink sapient versions of otherwise unthinking monsters]]) are. A DraconicHumanoid with an unusually human appearance ends up becoming a part of Bell's harem... and by extension, gets Bell into a lot of hot water, as Xenos suffer from FantasticRacism thanks to the perception that they must be AlwaysChaoticEvil.]]

* ''Anime/GhostSweeperMikami'' has main character Okinu, a CuteGhostGirl, as well as the recurring antagonist Medusa 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.

*** Even when Seven is still fully Borg she has noticeable ...implants. Apparently [[BuxomIsBetter breasts are not irrelevant]], despite the existence of Borg maturation chambers.

* The ''Jade Regent'' Campaign from ''Podcast/RPGMP3'' features a character called Misty the [[SuccubiAndIncubi Succubus]]. Misty is a [[TheDitz bubbly]], [[BrainlessBeauty bouncy]], [[DumbBlonde charmingly naïve]] teenage girl with [[BuxomIsBetter talents that make her invaluable to the team]]. She also happens to be a demonic Succubus from the deepest pits of the Abyss, who enjoys long walks on the beaches by the lakes of fire and brimstone, and [[CreepyGood occasionally starts singing while disemboweling people with her claws]]. She's really a very nice person, once you get to know her.

Female {{One Gender Race}}s are typically these. Although very 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 common 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.]]

* ''Series/EureekasCastle'': The titular sorceress-in-training Eureeka is this due to her horns ''and'' a CuteWitch.

* ''Series/EureekasCastle'': The titular sorceress-in-training Eureeka is this ''and'' a CuteWitch due to the horns.