An index for romantic and/or sexual relationships and attraction between people of different races and/or species.
Keep in mind that vampires, ghouls and other creatures who are primarily of a human nature or genetic basis don't fit here. See Our Monsters Are Different for clarifications.
Related to Race Tropes, Love Tropes, Sex Tropes, Attraction Tropes and National Stereotypes. See also Alien Tropes and Unequal Pairing.
General Tropes:
- Extreme Omnisexual: Someone that that has had—or at least would like to have—sex with other species and/or inanimate objects.
- Hiding Your Heritage
- Maligned Mixed Marriage: Two people of different groups become romantically involved, and the groups don't like it.
- Mixed Ancestry (and all or some of its subtropes).
- One Drop Rule
- Only You Can Repopulate My Race: A person who's the last surviving member of their race asks someone to mate with them because they're their only chance at preventing their race from going extinct.
- Race Fetish: One's race may be another's fetish.
Interracial Tropes:
- Asian Babymama
- Asian Hooker Stereotype
- Black Gal on White Guy Drama
- But Not Too Foreign
- The Chief's Daughter
- Chocolate Baby: A child doesn't look like either of their parents, suggesting that their real father is someone their mother cheated on her husband with.
- Europeans Are Kinky: The stereotype that Europeans tend to be more sexually deviant.
- Faux Interracial Relationship
- Foreign Fanservice
- Insanely International Ancestry
- Latin Lover
- Matzo Fever
- Mighty Whitey and Mellow Yellow
- Shiksa Goddess
- Warring Natures
- Where Da White Women At?: A black man who has a preference for Caucasian women.
Interspecies Tropes:
- Attractive Zombie: A zombie that is beautiful and sexy.
- Bestiality Is Depraved: Sex with humanoid creatures is ok, but sex with animals is too far.
- Boy Meets Ghoul: Romance between a mortal and a member of the undead.
- Catgirl: Can apply with both males and females as human cat hybrids.
- Cute Monster Girl: She may be a monster, but why does she have to look like something out of an anime?
- Did You Just Romance Cthulhu?: Having romantic interests with something... elsely.
- Discount Lesbians: Typically of different species.
- Divine Date: Pursuing romantic interests with a god, goddess, or other divine being.
- Dominant Species Genes: Cross-species couples have kids of one species.
- Either/Or Offspring
- Fairy Sexy
- Fantastic Arousal
- Gorgeous Gorgon: A gorgon who is attractive.
- Green-Skinned Space Babe: A beautiful woman with an abnormal skin color.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Half Human heritage mixed with... something else.
- Heinz Hybrid: Part one species, part another species, and part yet another species.
- Horny Devils: Devils and/or demons that are portrayed as sex seekers.
- Human Mom, Non-Human Dad
- Interspecies Romance: Romance between different species is the staple of this whole index.
- Boldly Coming: Human men doing green skinned space babes.
- Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action: Impossible means of breeding.
- Kiss Me, I'm Virtual
- Magical Girlfriend
- Mars Needs Women: Nonhuman males finding human women sexually attractive.
- Mayfly–December Romance: Relations between a mortal being and an immortal being.
- Mermaid Problem: The age-old riddle of how getting intimate with a mermaid is possible if they lack external genitalia.
- Nephilim (usually some hybrid of angel and/or demon).
- Robosexual: A person is sexually interested in robots.
- Cargo Ship: A character is jokingly shipped with an inanimate object.
- Robotic Spouse: A robot built to be someone's artificial husband or wife.
- Seductive Mummy: A mummy that is very alluring and attractive.
- Selkies and Wereseals
- Semi-Divine: One parent is human, the other is godly.
- Speculative Fiction LGBT
- True-Breeding Hybrid: Crossing two species produces a new one.
- Uneven Hybrid
- You Sexy Beast
