History Main / MagicalGirlfriend

* After being revised to revel in its anime roots, ''TabletopGame/TeenagersFromOuterSpace'' added Magical Girlfriend as a special power available to characters. The game designers also pointed out the genre was probably inspired by ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie''.

* Characters/{{Wonder Woman|TheCharacter}} is an immortal, superhuman Amazon. Her most iconic love interest is a mortal man named [[Characters/WonderWomanAllies Steve Trevor]].

* ''Manga/MonsterMusume'' begins with hot {{Lamia}} Miia moving in with UnluckyEverydude Kimihito as part of a cultural exchange program mixup. Then they're joined by more {{Cute Monster Girl}}s until there's an entire UnwantedHarem. Hijinks ensue.

* Franchise/WonderWoman is an immortal, superhuman Amazon. Her most iconic love interest is a mortal man named [[Characters/WonderWomanAllies Steve Trevor]].

* Micro K-Drama Web Series ''Dream Knights'' {{Gender Flip}}s this with a ReverseHarem aspect, and follows an orphaned rich girl whose family company and inheritance gets stolen out from under her, around the same time she is diagnosed with a disease that will one day leave her completely paralyzed. Her tears lead her stuffed dolls to come to life as her handsome Knights, while gaining the attention of the members of her favorite Idol Band, [[spoiler:who they themselves were once Knights]], [[AsHimself both groups are played by and named after the members of the Idol Group GOT7]], who all work to make her life a little easier, while helping her gain confidence in herself.

* ''Anime/SteelAngelKurumi'' -- although the boy in question isn't geeky; he's merely a bit too young for girls yet. In ''Anime/SteelAngelKurumi2'', the trope is coupled with someone of a bit more appropriate age -- who also happens to be another ''girl''.

Magical Girlfriend series show up in [[ShonenDemographic shōnen]], but seem to skyrocket in popularity within the {{seinen}} crowd. There are a couple of {{shojo}} series too, one being Creator/YuuWatase's {{Gender Flip}}ped Magical ''Boyfriend'' series ''Manga/AbsoluteBoyfriend'', another being Creator/NaokoTakeuchi's OrphanedSeries ''Toki Meca'', which replaces the couple with a RomanticTwoGirlFriendship. As the Films -- Live Action folder below will attest, it's had peaks and valleys of popularity in the West as well, particularly in TheEighties.

* Regnella of the ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'' is an alien queen with psychic powers who is in love with ordinary Earth-duck Donald.

* ''LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokuroChan'', is a parody of the genre that often CrossesTheLineTwice. The titular Dokuro is an angel who falls in love with the main character Sakura...but whenever he accidentally does something to provoke her, she violently kills him, only to revive him not long afterwards. There's also the fact that the reason she lives with him is because she's been ordered to kill him, since in the future he'll apparently be responsible for inventing a form of immortality that prevents women from physically aging past twelve years old.

* ''LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokurochan'', done mostly as a CrossesTheLineTwice parody of the genre.

* ''{{Film/Xanadu}}'': Sonny is a failed artist who is reduced to painting advertisements in store windows in order to earn a living. Then Kira, a gorgeous rollerskating blonde played by Music/OliviaNewtonJohn, falls in love with him. She turns out to be a {{Physical God}}dess from Greek mythology (namely, TheMuse Terpsichore). It was later adapted into a stage musical, which changed the ending - [[spoiler: in the film, Kira is forced to return to Mount Olympus, but in the musical, she is allowed to stay with Sonny]].

* In ''Manga/AyakashiKoiEmaki'', shrine maiden Miko Tsubaki finds herself falling in love with incubus Kagura.

Magical Girlfriend series show up in {{shonen}}, but seem to skyrocket in popularity within the {{seinen}} crowd. There are a couple of {{shojo}} series too, one being Creator/YuuWatase's {{Gender Flip}}ped Magical ''Boyfriend'' series ''Manga/AbsoluteBoyfriend'', another being Creator/NaokoTakeuchi's OrphanedSeries ''Toki Meca'', which replaces the couple with a RomanticTwoGirlFriendship. As the Films -- Live Action folder below will attest, it's had peaks and valleys of popularity in the West as well, particularly in TheEighties.

* ''Anime/PleaseTeacher'': Mizuho technically qualifies as this for the young man Kei, being that she is a {{Human Alien|s}} (well, a HalfHumanHybrid who's half-{{Human Alien|s}}, to be exact). And it doubles as a TeacherStudentRomance complete with heavy, heavy FanService.

* Subverted and deconstructed in ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'' comics with [[StarCrossedLovers Ice Goddess Kelda and short-order cook Bill]]. Doctor Doom even taunted the bereft Kelda that [[MayflyDecemberRomance she and Bill were never meant to be]].

* Franchise/WonderWoman is an immortal, superhuman Amazon. Her most iconic love interest is a mortal man named Steve Trevor.

* In ''Fanfic/BeyondDeath'', ''ComicBook/{{Thanos}}'' of all people becomes a male example to an elementary school teacher after crash-landing on Earth. While it's initially subverted (he was going to kill her once he'd recovered, and the only reason he didn't was because she became fused with the Tessarect), they slowly but surely fall for each other.

* The [[EnsembleDarkhorse young heartbroken female squirrel]] from Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone'' was expanded by Website/FourChan's /co/ into one for the future Myth/KingArthur. The premise as found in text stories and fan-art has Arthur asking Merlin to turn the squirrel human, who is then dubbed [[http://the-conservatory.wikia.com/wiki/Hazel Hazel.]]
** Years later, coincidentally or not, ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' had a skit with an identical premise - only now the girl still had the mind of a squirrel.

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheAlienInvaders''. The normally carefree Shaggy and Scooby fall for a hippie nature photographer named Crystal and her Golden Retriever Amber. Even a whole music video in the movie is Shaggy fantasizing about their future relationship. As it turns out, [[spoiler:Crystal and her dog are alien agents sent to investigate the S.A.L.F dishes. Their idea of an Earth appearance came from TV signals picked up from an experiment in the 70's]].

* ''Film/LetTheRightOneIn'' - vampire.
** A very dark example in the Remake ''Film/LetMeIn''. Owen, a shy and nice boy who is merely mistreated or neglected by those around him, meets Abby, the vampire girl next door. However, Abby kills several completely innocent people during the plot, and Owen goes through some traumatic experiences. Towards the end of the film, however, he leaves town to start a new life with her, either as [[TheRenfield her caretaker]] [[ShrugOfGod or she turns him into a vampire]].

* ''{{Film/Xanadu}}'': Sonny is a failed artist who is reduced to painting advertisements in store windows in order to earn a living. Then Kira, a gorgeous rollerskating blonde played by Olivia Newton-John, falls in love with him. She turns out to be a {{Physical God}}dess from Greek mythology (namely, TheMuse Terpsichore). It was later adapted into a stage musical, which changed the ending - [[spoiler: in the film, Kira is forced to return to Mount Olympus, but in the musical, she is allowed to stay with Sonny]].

* ''LightNovel/DateALive'' is about Shidou, an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, who [[GotVolunteered gets volunteered]] by a powerful organisation to romance the [[PersonOfMassDestruction immensely powerful and unpredictable Spirits]] because of his unexplained ability to "seal" their powers by kissing them. The whole point is to remove the "Magical" part of this trope so they aren't a threat anymore, though even when sealed they can still manifest many of their abilities so it's less BroughtDownToNormal and more being {{Nerf}}ed. As revealed in the light novels, [[spoiler:one such girlfriend is the main villain and the reason for the entire story. Mio, the very first Spirit, fell in love with Shinji, Shidou's past self. However, he was killed and this drove Mio to remake him as Shidou and create the other Spirits as a means of gradually giving him her power, so that he would be as immortal as her.]]

* The titular character of ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' is, in effect, a Magical SheIsNotMyGirlfriend, and a inversion of the whole thing, as she epitomizes exactly what protagonist Kyon claims he ''doesn't'' want out of life. [[UnreliableNarrator It's quite likely he's lying to himself]]. As for Haruhi herself. [[LockedOutOfTheLoop She doesn't know she's magic]] (her thinking she is normal is one of the forces driving the plot). However, Kyon knows. It's even partly his fault [[spoiler:(without his actions [[ArcWords three years ago they would not have met]]).]]

* ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'' parodies the concept, since the girlfriend is no other than Nyarlathotep the Crawling Chaos of the Franchise/CthulhuMythos, and the male lead is a Lovecraft fan who knows exactly what that means (and thus is reluctant to trust her). The "dream girlfriend" part is open to interpretation, since she's a ManicPixieDreamGirl and LovableSexManiac on top of being a CosmicHorror, all of which grates on the male lead's sanity (though he does gradually warm up to her).

* ''Dance with the Devil'' by Sherrilyn Kenyon - the heroine [[spoiler:is the daughter of a Greek goddess.]]

* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' is all ''over'' the place with this one. Harry himself is a magical boyfriend to Susan. [[spoiler:after being vampirified, Susan is to Harry, too.]]

* Lúthien in ''Literature/TheSilmarillion''. It's kind of an UnmadeTrope here though. Beren, while not exactly geeky, is smarter than he is athletic: and spends a good chunk of the story in prison. Lúthien's mother is a {{PhysicalGod}}dess who married an elf: although she isn't a demigoddess per se, she does have extremely strong magical powers. Strong enough to put the EvilGod to sleep. The point is that she is so out of poor Beren's league it's not even funny. Unlike the typical hero in this type of story though, Beren doesn't spend much time angsting over why she chose him: and calls her dad out for not respecting said choice. ''Creator/JRRTolkien'' put the name "Beren" on his gravestone, and the name "Lúthien" on his wife's. Though one would hardly say he was the creator of the trope. In all likelihood this one is OlderThanDirt.

* In ''Series/MyLoveFromAnotherStar'', actress Chun Song-yi falls in love with HumanAlien Do Min-joon.

** There was the time everyone's favorite teen geek Wesley Crusher hooked up with an equally perfect seemingly-HumanAlien girl from another world. Turns out she was a [[ShapeshiftingLover shapeshifter]].

* The witch Theatre/{{Medea}} from Myth/ClassicalMythology, who betrayed her kingdom and killed her brother out of devotion to Jason and then became his bodyguard and hitman. After hooking up with her, Jason apparently stood back and let her handle all the monsters, giant living statues, and enemy kings with her magic. And then he dumped her for a normal, beautiful princess and was surprised when [[WomanScorned she wouldn't stand for that]]... WhatAnIdiot!

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' starts with Rex, a boy [[BlueCollarHero works as a Salvager]], getting recruited for a mission that ultimately leads him to discover the Aegis: an ancient, legendary sword that contains a girl named Pyra, who on top of being incredibly powerful, has a kind and domestic personality. Their relationship and bond is a major plot point that spans across the entire game. Then there's the reveal of Pyra's [[spoiler: sister and AlternateSelf Mythra]]. She too also develops a relationship with Rex in the game (though in a more {{Tsundere}} mannner), and the ending that reveals that [[spoiler: both have been revived in separate bodies]] leaves it ambiguous if Rex has two magical girlfriend''s'' or just [[spoiler: the blade sister that confesses to him based on whose name he prefers.]]

* Haruna Kurahashi from ''Webcomic/ExperimentalComicKotone''.
* There is a honest to goodness college clique full of "unlucky every girls" ''blessed'' with the trope's genderflipped version in ''Webcomic/GirlsNextDoor'' called Wibsy (Weirdo Boyfriend and Supernatural Stalker Club[[note]] The boyfriends/stalkers range from the fairly normal deformed psycho MadArtist to [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghosts]], [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] (although they have their own clique), [[TheFairFolk fae]], a magical prince from a fairytale kingdom… and a [[DragonsUpTheYinYang river spirit/eastern dragon]].[[/note]]) there is even mention of this trope in the artist comment when they debut and that the DistaffCounterpart boys club historically resides in Japan. Oh... and both main characters are members (one has the MadArtist the other TheFairFolk as unwanted boyfriend / StalkerWithACrush).
** In a broader sense it's set in a '[[{{Webcomic/Buildingverse}} verse]], where (according to mother series ''{{Webcomic/Roommates}}'') the magical people actively engage in InterspeciesRomance because [[TangledFamilyTree all of them are pretty much related]], making both magical girlfriends and boyfriend extremely common. For comedy and tragedy.
* ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'': Shortly after Peanut's FalseStart, Grape comes home from her date with Max to find Peanut watching a movie with another dog, Tarot. This was first time she had appeared in the comic and had apparently "foreseen Peanut in his hour of need." At first, it seemed her magic-ness was just a throw-away gag, but she has since been shown capable of {{Telepathy}} and mental illusion, among other things.
** And the source of her magic-ness is shown to be [[spoiler:her status as a PlayerCharacter in a cosmic tabletop roleplaying game on a higher plane where the comic's world is the game world, and getting together with Peanut was part of that. Unfortunately that leads to some strain in their relationship as her patron has her own crush on him and Peanut has trouble differentiating the two.]]

* ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' (or ''[[JustForPun Oh My Goddess!]]'', as the {{manga}} is called in the English world): [[UnluckyEverydude awkward, mistreated]] Keiichi Morisato and his Magical Girlfriend – [[FriendToAllLivingThings pure-hearted]] wish-granting goddess Belldandy, who [[TropeCodifier fit every basic aspect of the Trope to a "T"]]. The passion of their relationship, the [[CharacterDevelopment depth of their characters (and the characters around them)]], and the emphasis on drama and [[FantasticComedy comedy]] depends on the incarnation – over the course of the [[LongRunners 25½-year run of the original manga (1988-2014)]], there was a 5-episode {{O|riginalVideoAnimation}}VA (1993-6), a [[TheMovie theatrical movie]], a two-season TV series (2004-2006) plus a few more [[NoExportForYou Japan-only]] OVA's to go with it.

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' starts with Rex, a boy [[BlueCollarHero works as a Salvager]], getting recruited for a mission that ultimately leads him to discover the Aegis: an ancient, legendary sword that contains a girl named Pyra, who on top of being incredibly powerful, has a kind and domestic personality. Their relationship and bond is a major plot point that spans across the entire game.

* ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'': OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Tsukune gets sent to a [[ExtranormalInstitute Monster School]]. There he meets cute vampire girl Moka and she falls in love with him since he was the first person she sucked blood from… and continues to do so, much to his chagrin. While it's a totally straight example at first, it shifts away from the norm for this trope about halfway through Part I of the manga, as Tsukune starts his progression from average dork to {{bishonen}} badass.

* ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' (or ''[[JustForPun Oh My Goddess!]]'', as the {{manga}} is called in the English world): [[UnluckyEverydude awkward, mistreated]] Keiichi Morisato and his Magical Girlfriend – [[FriendToAllLivingThings pure-hearted]] wish-granting goddess]] Belldandy, who [[TropeCodifier fit every basic aspect of the Trope to a "T"]]. The passion of their relationship, the [[CharacterDevelopment depth of their characters (and the characters around them)]], and the emphasis on drama and [[FantasticComedy comedy]] depends on the incarnation – over the course of the [[LongRunners 25½-year run of the original manga (1988-2014)]], there was a 5-episode {{O|riginalVideoAnimation}}VA (1993-6), a [[TheMovie theatrical movie]], a two-season TV series (2004-2006) plus a few more [[NoExportForYou Japan-only]] OVA's to go with it.

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* In ''Literature/KumikoTheDemonGirl'', Ken, perpetually luckless with women, gets Kumiko, a somewhat naive and overly chipper demon, as his girlfriend. On the plus side, the sex is great and he's protected against various mystical threats around him. On the minus side, she's consuming a bit more of his soul every time they have sex and the mystical threats largely exist due to Kumiko existing. Oh, and the mystical chain connecting them prevents him from getting too far away from her, he bears a brand on his neck of a cartoonish copy of her flashing a VictorySign, her naïveté constantly gets him hurt, when his luck does change, she drives the other girls away... but then again, the sex is '''really''', really good.

* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'': As far as TheSmartGuy Jérémie is concerned, Aelita definitely fits this trope; it was obvious to his friends that he was in love with her even though he knew her only as a cheerfully innocent, pixie-like artificial intelligence living in a computer. She's gradually revealed to be an amnesiac human girl who was trapped in {{cyberspace}}, and their relationship continues once she's rescued (though it also [[RealityEnsues gets more complicated]], as Jérémie predicted would happen if she started living on Earth).

** A few later versions give the woman a name, Galatea, and also mention a daughter, Metharme.

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* Corticarte Apa Lagranges of ''VisualNovel/ShinkyokuSoukaiPolyphonica'', albeit a more mild example than most.

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* The heroine of ''Aoi-chan Panic!'' is a HalfHumanHybrid alien girl who falls in love with the male lead.
* ''Ashita Dorobou'' has an interesting variant of this trope. Straitlaced protagonist Kyouichi Miyasako, 30 years old, broke up with his quirky, free-spirited girlfriend Ashita Tendou way back in college, and has been haunted by regret ever since. Suddenly, with a UFO hanging in the sky over Tokyo, she returns to him, wearing the same maid costume she was wearing when he dumped her, and she hasn't aged a day. He tentatively accepts her back into his life, even though something feels off about the whole situation.

* In ''Dare mo Shiranai 29-nichi'', Yukio falls in love with Akari, a CuteGhostGirl who happens to share his 29th of Feburary birthday.

* In ''Himesama Tanuki no Koizanyou'', Riku is betrothed to Tanuki princess Miyo.

* ''Lilim Kiss'' has a young man releasing a succubus from her pendant. After one kiss that leaves her very full, they find out they share corresponding moles on various parts of their body. Because of that, the potency of the energy she takes is doubled for each pair of moles. Eventually, they become more of a couple.

* In ''Love Neko'', Eiji orders a RobotGirl, but gets a scrappy looking, aggressive, tough-talking brat of a robot boy instead. SlapSlapKiss quickly ensues.

* Io of ''Meteor Prince'' is a {{Human Alien|s}} prince who arrives on Earth in order to mate with the protagonist Hako Natsuno. While she is initially put off by his advances, she slowly falls in love with him.

* In ''My Love Tiger'', the hero finds himself engaged to a [[CatGirl Tiger Girl]].

* Gender-flipped in ''My Sweet Dragon'', where a shy, insecure girl gets a gorgeous boyfriend/husband who is a dragon.
* ''My Wife Is a Demon Queen'' is pretty much ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin - a guy is married to the queen of all demons.

* ''Ten De Showaru Cupid'' involves a relationship between a normal, human boy and a beautiful, devil girl. It's by the creator of ''Manga/YuYuHakusho''.

* ''Wirbelwind'': Dark elf meets ordinary boy. Boy then turns into undead and they adventure together.

* In ''Comicbook/{{Lucifer}}'', Mazikeen, a lilim (a child of the demon Lilith) is in a relationship with Beatrice, a human woman.
* ''Comicbook/{{Madman}}'' - reanimated corpse. Also a gender-flipped example.
* Subverted and deconstructed in ''Comicbook/TheMightyThor'' comics with [[StarCrossedLovers Ice Goddess Kelda and short-order cook Bill]]. Doctor Doom even taunted the bereft Kelda that [[MayflyDecemberRomance she and Bill were never meant to be]].

* Morpheus in ''Comicbook/TheSandman'' has had occasional romances with mortals, essentially being a magical ''boyfriend''. Unlike most examples of the trope, the relationships don't end well.

* ''Manga/{{Kannagi}}'': Nagi is a centuries old tree goddess who awakens when Jin fashions a sculpture from the wood of her sacred tree. Of course they fall in love.

* ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan'' parodies the concept, since the girlfriend is no other than Nyarlathotep the Crawling Chaos of the Franchise/CthulhuMythos, and the male lead is a Lovecraft fan who knows exactly what that means (and thus is reluctant to trust her). The "dream girlfriend" part is open to interpretation, since she's a ManicPixieDreamGirl and LovableSexManiac on top of being a CosmicHorror, all of which grates on the male lead's sanity (though he does gradually warm up to her).

* ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' famously parodied the genre ''back in the seventies'' ([[UnbuiltTrope long before there was actually such a genre]]) by having the UnluckyEverydude be a [[CasanovaWannabe slovenly, pitifully-desperate pervert]] who likely deserves all the trouble he goes through… and having the Magical Girlfriend be a {{Tsundere}} alien princess who loves him despite his lechery, but isn't adverse to zapping him with her electrical powers when he strays, as well as being somewhat bumbling, usually causing more problems then she solves. To add to this, he already had a girlfriend he liked better, and genuinely ''didn't'' want Lum at first.