An index for romantic and/or sexual attraction and intimate relationships between people of different races and/or species.
Also see Love Tropes, Sex Tropes, Attraction to Outliers, Race Tropes, National Stereotypes, Otherness Tropes, and the Index of Fictional Creatures.
General tropes:
Sub-index:
- Bigot with a Crush: A character is romantically and/or sexually attracted to a member of a group of people whom they are prejudiced against.
- Hiding Your Heritage
- Maligned Mixed Marriage: Two people of different groups become romantically involved, and the groups don't like it.
- One Drop Rule
Interracial tropes:
Main topic:
- 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
- In the Future, Humans Will Be One Race
- 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:
Main topic:
- 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.
- Boldly Coming: Humans having sex with aliens.
- 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.
- Cargo Ship: A character is jokingly shipped with an inanimate object.
- 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
- Extreme Omnisexual: Someone that that has had—or at least would like to have—sex with other species and/or inanimate objects.
- 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
- 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).
- Non-Human Lover Reveal: A plot twist revealing that someone's love interest is not actually human.
- 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.
- Robosexual: A person is sexually interested in robots.
- 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.
- Shapeshifting Lover
- Speculative Fiction LGBT
- True-Breeding Hybrid: Crossing two species produces a new one.
- Uneven Hybrid
- You Sexy Beast
