Until you find true love's first kiss, and then take love's true form.
Belgarath: When she found out that I couldn't accept her as a mate in the form of a wolf, she simply found a different shape. She got what she wanted in the end.
Garion: Aunt Pol's mother was a wolf?
Belgarath: No, Garion, she was a woman—a very lovely woman. The change of shape is absolute.
Garion: Aunt Pol's mother was a wolf?
Belgarath: No, Garion, she was a woman—a very lovely woman. The change of shape is absolute.
An Interspecies Romance presents a whole lot of problems. It's frequently a Maligned Mixed Marriage in the eyes of the couple's friends and relations. Unless Hollywood Genetics comes to help, the couple will have trouble having children. It can present sheer logistical troubles: say, if Alice is a pixie and Bob a giant, forget the sex, she'll forever be at risk of getting accidentally squashed!
Therefore, in many Speculative Fiction works, an Interspecies Romance problem is nullified: one half of the couple is turned into their partner's species. Sometimes it will be their conscious decision, sometimes it happens coincidentally for reasons not directly related to their romance, and occasionally the transformation is Hand Waved as a result of The Power of Love.
No matter how fantastical the story otherwise is, certain writers tend to get squeamish at the idea of romances that don't equalize in this manner (especially if it's a human dating an obviously non-human entity; Human Aliens, Elves and the like tend to get a pass on this trope, but a Starfish Alien or Funny Animal less so). Regardless of how genuine or loving the relationship is, it can sometimes be hard (or is assumed by higher-ups to be hard) for audiences to get past the immediate Squick factor, necessitating this.
Note that this trope deals specifically with transformations that change the character's original form. Victims of Forced Transformation turning back are not this trope, along with the many versions of "animal bridegroom" folklore stories, since they usually make it ambiguous whether the bridegroom was ever an animal or his true form was human.
Can overlap with Brought Down to Normal, Humanity Ensues, and Mortality Ensues.
Compare Age-Down Romance, Like Goes with Like, A Form You Are Comfortable With, Trans Nature, Shapeshifting Lover.
Contrast Star-Crossed Lovers.
As this is often an Ending Trope, spoilers are unmarked. You Have Been Warned!
Examples:
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Anime & Manga
- Jewelpet Sunshine: In the finale, Mikage becomes a jewelpet named Granite for the sake of being with Ruby.
- Rosario + Vampire: Tsukune Aono is a human who ends up transferring to Yokai Academy, a school of monsters, where he gains an Unwanted Harem of monster girls. However, Tsukune Aono has already chosen Moka Akashiya, a vampire with two personalities. Tsukune undergoes an Emergency Transformation into a ghoul from Moka's blood after being fatally wounded by Kuyou, but when Moka is dying, Tsukune gives up the last of his humanity to become a vampire and save her.
- Slayers: In an anime-only story from Slayers TRY, a fish woman named Lila is in love with a human boy named Kerel. Her father, Honar, forbids the relationship, knowing that the challenges between a human and a fish person are nearly insurmountable, such as the fish person needing to spend half the day in the water, sleeping in a damp bed, eating seaweed, or not being able to travel far from the sea. However, Lila and Kerel are determined to make it work, so Honar tells them of a means to have Lila turn human. But there's a caveat. For Lila to become human, she must be completely willing, and Kerel must be equally willing to become a fish-man. The two agree to the terms, and Lila becomes human, and Kerel becomes a fish-man, with Lila presumably not minding a diet of seaweed or a damp bed, as she's already used to these things, while they'll now be necessary for Kerel in his new form.
- Yuri Kuma Arashi adds a clever subversion to this. The series initially sets up Ginko and Lulu becoming human to meet Kureha, and only when Ginko proves her love is true can she be truly human. However, when Ginko's life is threatened by the finale, it's Kureha who steps up and pleads the goddess Kumalia to turn HER into a bear so she can be together with Ginko. Despite human society being unable to accept her transformation and their relationship, there's at least some implication that the two were able to finally be together thanks to Kumalia's blessing.
Comic Books
- Exiles: In issues #5-6 of New Exiles, half of the teams travel to a hybrid High Fantasy / Science Fantasy reality wherein a human prince falls in love with a she-dragon named Marysal. There is concern about their interspecies romance aspect, but at the end of the two-parter, the she-dragon turns from her green scaled self to a buxom blonde human woman. Marysal then says the transformation is one of "our ancient gifts" (implying her dragon species), and that the transformation is permanent.
- Sin Bad: In the French comic, the titular hero meets and falls in love with a panther-woman named Anza. Later she learns the term is quite more literal (Anza is a panther who can turn into a woman, not the other way around), and at the end of the story, they use a wish to turn Sinbad into the same type of creature.
- The Unbelievable Unteens: The series ends with Snapdragon asking her former teammates to let her comatose physical body die so that she and her ghostly boyfriend Jack Sabbath can be reunited in Hell.
Fan Works
- Common in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic "Human In Equestria" fan works, though far from ubiquitous. Some combination of the Elements of Harmony or Twilight casting spells can and will turn our protagonist human into a pony so they can be with whomever it is they're getting shipped with. When My Little Pony: Equestria Girls 1 came out in 2013, it offered an avenue for things to work the other way around as well.
- For those in the community who seriously ship Sonic and Elise, they either just put up with the scorn from others or do this. They typically turn Elise into a Funny Animal (or "Mobian" if you're an older fan), usually a hedgehog but sometimes other animals, to circumvent the species gap. Very rarely, it will be Sonic who gets turned into a human instead.
- Adventures of a Time Lord & a Slayer: Downplayed. Buffy (human) and the Doctor (Time Lord) are having an Interspecies Romance relationship going on until the Doctor accidentally turns her part-Time Lord while giving her a blood transfusion to save her life in My Bloody Lover (although this isn't fully revealed until I Remember). While the species doesn't fully change, it still gives them enough traits to solve the Mayfly–December Romance problem of the previous species difference.
- Riding a Sunset heavily features a romance between Charlie Watson, a human, and Bumblebee, a Transformer, or to use the terminology of the story Autonomous Robotic Organism or ARO for short. In the ending of season 5 Charlie is kidnapped by Terrorist/Mad Scientist group MACH and experimented on, resulting in her becoming an ARO as well.
Folklore
- "The Mountain Chains" has a rare version where both partners are turned into a different species: an eagle falls in love with a quail, and once she accepts him, both of them become humans.
Films — Animation
- In Brother Bear 2, Nita is a human girl and Kenai has voluntarily given up his humanity to live as a bear. In the end, after they rekindle their Childhood Friend Romance, Nita turns into a bear as well and marries him.
- In Cool World, human (or "Noid") protagonist Frank Harris is in love with the animated Doodle Lonette, but cannot act on it because it's illegal for Noids and Doodles to have sex. But in the climax, after Frank is killed by Holli, another Doodle, it's revealed that Noids killed by Doodles resurrect as Doodles themselves. Frank and Lonette are overjoyed, and quickly consummate their relationship.
- Downplayed in The Little Mermaid (1989). Ariel is a mermaid who strives to become human after falling in love with human Prince Eric and eventually succeeds; however, she was fascinated by humankind even before meeting him, so a romantic relationship with him is just part of the reason why she wants to be a human.
- Shrek:
- Shrek 1: The titular character is an ogre who falls in love with a human princess. The film famously ends not with Shrek becoming human as is the norm in stories like these, but with Fiona, the princess, becoming an ogre like Shrek.
- Shrek 2:
- It's revealed that Fiona's parents are also an example of the trope — King Harold used to be a frog who asked the Fairy Godmother to make him human so that he could marry Queen Lilian. The transformation is eventually reverted, but Lilian assures him she doesn't care.
- Shrek himself ends up becoming human in the second film, as an attempt to give Fiona the Prince Charming he assumes she wanted from him. However, they both remain ogres in the end.
- In The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep Prince Agloval a human is in love with Princess Sh'eenaz a mermaid, his father King Usveldt of Bremervoord tries to dissuade their union as Agloval is crown prince and would be unable to have an heir with a mermaid. Sh'eenaz considers becoming a human via a permanent Transformation Potion given to her by her Aunt Melusine to resolve this issue but after the reveal that King Usveldt and Melusine were working together to orchestrate a war between their people, Algloval decides he's done with his father and takes the potion to become a merman and swim away with Sh'eenaz instead.
Films — Live-Action
- Aladdin (2019): Genie falls in love with Princess Jasmine's handmaiden Dalia. In the end, after Aladdin wishes Genie free, he becomes a normal human, deciding to spend his life with Dalia. The Framing Device of the movie shows they eventually end up having children.
- Avatar: Human Jake falls in love and begins a relationship with Na'vi Neytiri, despite resistance from their respective people. After driving out the human military presence on Pandora, Jake has his soul transferred into his Avatar through a ritual with the Tree of Souls, abandons his human body, and goes on to live with Neytiri and the other Na'vi. Not fully equalized in that Avatars aren't fully Na'vi, having a few human traits that Na'vi find offputting; in the sequel, Jake and his part-Avatar children still face some prejudice.
- Dark Shadows: Barnabas Collins, a vampire, falls in love with Victoria, a human nanny. While Barnabas in fact Was Once a Man, the end of the movie revolves the problem of the mortal/immortal relationship not by Barnabas being turned back into human, but by Barnabas biting "Vicky" and turning her into a vampire as well.
- The Lost Boys: Done twice over! Star is a vamprie who falls in love with the human Michael, who is far from pleased when her friends turn him into a vampire. Then, they both become human in the last act.
- Weirdly subverted with Oh! Heavenly Dog, where the protagonist (a private eye played by Chevy Chase reincarnated into the body of Benji) investigates his own murder with the help of a human woman (Jane Seymour) whom he falls for. At the end, she sacrifices herself to save him and then is herself reincarnated... as a cat.
- In Stardust, Tristan, a human, falls in love with Yvaine, a star. As part of a Lighter and Softer Adaptational Alternate Ending, both of them move to the sky and live on as stars after their children and grandchildren are grown.
- Vamps: Stacy and Joey are fine with having a human-vampire romance until they learn that being a vampire will make Stacy miscarry her pregnancy, after which she cures herself.
- Warm Bodies: Julie falling in love with a zombie is far from idyllic, but the emotions of love gradually restore him to a full human.
Literature
- Animorphs: As per the rules of morphing, going past the two-hour time limit causes a Shapeshifter Mode Lock, and two of these locks happened for this reason.
- The Andalite Chronicles: Elfangor takes Loren and runs away from the Andalite-Yeerk war. Knowing by that point that he had fallen in love with this strange alien, he pieces together a human morph with her help and traps himself in it. The two of them live a domestic human life for a while, even conceiving a son named Tobias before The Ellimist turns Elfangor back into an Andalite and drops him back into the war.
- The Hork-Bajir Chronicles: Aldrea, and Andalite, and Dak, a Hork-Bajir, fall in love during a time when they're the only two beings on the planet who can talk to each other as equals. Aldrea acquires a female Hork-Bajir morph as a demonstration, and later uses it when a do or die situation will kill every Hork-Bajir on the planet so she can be Together in Death with Dak if they fail. They survive, but both are knocked unconscious and they fail. When Dak wakes up, Aldrea is trapped in morph and puts a brave face on it; whether either of them had to do any work to get used to this is never said since this is at the end of their part of the book. They did have a son later.
- Discussed with Rachel and Tobias. Tobias is a human trapped in a red-tailed hawk morph. He later gains his morphing power back, but his "default" form is his hawk body now so turning into a human for longer than two hours would trap him instead. Rachel is troubled by this, wishing he'd stick to being human because being a hawk makes dating Tobias very uncomfortable, but Tobias has come to prefer his hawk body to some extent and also doesn't want to render himself unable to fight as an Animorph anymore. The two do continue their romance, but it's not an easy relationship.
- Axtara: One anecdote brought up briefly by Axtara in Banking and Finance, and later detailed further in the spin-off short story A Game of Stakes, concerns a male dragon who had to proctor a challenge where would-be suitors played Stakes against a human princess to win her hand in marriage. The princess handily beat all the suitors, and between these challenges she would play Stakes with the dragon himself. The dragon eventually beat her, and they married each other. They got around the physical differences by learning magic that would let them periodically change into the other's species.
- The Belgariad: Zig-zagged with Belgarath and Poledra. They met and became friends when Poledra was a wolf (albeit a sapient one), and Poledra later learned sorcery, transformed into a human, and married him. Belgarath reassures his fairly disturbed grandson that "the change of shape is absolute", though she still obviously identifies closely with wolves, and both of them spend a lot of time in wolf form as well.
- The Bloody Chamber: In "The Tiger's Bride", a retelling of "Beauty and the Beast", a young human woman falls in love with a sapient tiger who disguises himself as a nobleman. Upon accepting her feelings for him, she's transformed into a tiger too.
- A Court of Thorns and Roses: Feyre is a human who falls in love with Tamlin, a High Fae. It does occur to her that their relationship might run into problems because High Fae don't die of old age (he's already centuries older than her), though this is resolved when she's resurrected by the High Lords, turning her into a High Fae in the process. However, Feyre ends up breaking up with Tamlin and getting with a different High Fae, Rhysand, who turns out to be her destined mate, though Rhysand didn't realise this until after she was transformed.
- Cupid and Psyche: The involvement between god Cupid and human princess Psyche is questioned by her mother-in-law Venus and even Zeus. The situation is resolved when, after Venus's trials, Psyche is rescued by Cupid, taken to Olympus, and made a goddess to be on equal standing with her divine lover.
- The first two Demons Trilogy books have a shapeshifting demon who falls in love with a human end up becoming human.
- This tends to be an element in the first two thirds of Dinoverse, where the characters are all either humans possessing dinosaurs, or natively intelligent but non-speaking dinosaurs.
- In the first part (I Was A Teenaged T-Rex and The Teens That Time Forgot), Bertram initially had a crush on Candayce. Eventually while in the Cretaceous she runs to kiss him... or, well, lock beaks, since they're beaked dinosaurs. She tries this twice, but he feels nothing and even thinks his crush on her has faded. Once they're both human again she kisses him again and this time he's receptive.
- During the second part (Raptor Without A Cause and Please Don't Eat The Teacher) Patience, in the body of an Acrocanthosaurus, catches the interest of a real Acrocanthosaurus she dubs G.K. or the Green Knight. He's very drawn to her, to the point where she's able to check her host's memories and find that he's not interested in the original inhabitant of her body, and she finds herself touched and drawn to him but won't pair up. In the climax, he dies trying to save one of her classmates, Will, and when everyone's back in the present day, Will is Sharing a Body with G.K., who takes over to try and court Patience. All three parties are cool with this.
- Immortal Guardians: The majority of the books in the series feature a Gifted One falling in love with an Immortal Guardian. These books usually end with the Gifted One electing to transform into an Immortal so they can spend the rest of their preternaturally long lives with their mate.
- The Inheritance Cycle: The relationship between human Eragon and elf Arya is a slow burn, as the long-lived Arya wants to avoid the Mayfly–December Romance problem. However, when Eragon is magically transformed into a human/elf hybrid with a longer lifespan (although still not of the same duration as a true elf), she admits that a romance between them might be possible.
- N. K. Jemisin's Inheritance Trilogy: Yeine cultivates a romance with the god Nahadoth through the first book. In the climax, she dies in the course of helping him win a Divine Conflict and regain his freedom, but fuses with the physical remains of a dead goddess and becomes that goddess' successor.
- Discussed in "The Mutant" by Kir Bulychev. The eponymous mutant is an ant born with sapience. He has managed to establish a telepathic connection to Lena, a human girl, who is certain that he is really a bewitched man who'll marry her once he is able to turn back. The ant is aware he's not a bewitched human, but he muses that if, by any chance, he does get turned into one, he'll be happy to marry Lena. As the story has No Ending, we never find out whether anything of that sort happens.
- In "The Night, the Rain, the Town" by Victor Nochkin, vampire Clarissa is attracted to human Kenneth. She briefly thinks of turning him but decides against it, especially since vampires physically can't have sex anyway. Thanks to a magical dagger turning her human again, she gets together with Kenneth.
- Night World:
- In Secret Vampire, James is a vampire while Poppy is a human; they've been in love for years though they initially won't admit it to each other (Poppy thinks that James just sees her as a friend, while James is in denial because Night People are forbidden to love humans). James ends up turning Poppy into a vampire when she's diagnosed with terminal cancer, after which they finally confess their love and realise they're soulmates. Poppy and James are technically different subspecies of vampire; James is a lamia (born as a vampire) while Poppy is made, but there's not much difference between them anymore and they're both functionally immortal (made vampires stop aging at the moment they're turned, lamia can choose when to stop biologically aging).
- Daughters of Darkness (1996):
- Ash, a vampire, offers to turn his newly-found human soulmate Mary-Lynette into a vampire; she initially accepts but later changes her mind, as she realises she's not cut out to be a vampire (especially as she's only seventeen), nor ready to fully commit to being with Ash, something he agrees with.
- Jeremy, a werewolf who is in love with Mary-Lynette, attempts to forcibly change her into a werewolf so they can be together. Mary-Lynette is able to stop him before it goes too far and it quickly quashes any romantic feelings she had for him.
- Defied in Soulmate; made vampire Thierry offers to turn his human soulmate Hannah into a vampire but she declines, saying she wants to live out a full life as a human. In their case, this doesn't matter too much because Hannah is an Old Soul; they know that once she dies she'll eventually be reborn and so they can be together over multiple lifetimes.
- In "The Princess of China" by Eleanor Farjeon, the eponymous princess, born to normal parents, is for some reason an extremely tiny human. After she learns of her betrothal to the Tatar khan, she mistakes a butterfly for him (the butterfly, as it turns out, belongs to a species called "Purple Khan") and turns into a butterfly herself to be with her beloved. (The real Tatar khan, thankfully, mistakes the princess's widowed mother for the actual princess and is immediately smitten, so everything works out for the best).
- Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms: In two human-dragon romances, Liquid Assets is applied to humanity and dragonity so half of each pair trades their species with the other half.
- Tolkien's Legendarium:
- The Lord of the Rings: All half-Elves must eventually choose to become either Elves or Men. When Arwen and her human lover Aragorn pledge themselves to each other, Arwen gives up her immortality to live a human life with him.
- Beren and Lúthien: Both Aragorn and Arwen are descendants of the first Man/Elf romance, Beren and Lúthien (Aragorn far more distantly than Arwen), and their choice is, both in and out of universe, a deliberate echo of their ancestors'. After Beren is killed, Lúthien gives up her own life to travel to the Halls of Mandos and plead for Beren's soul. For the first and only time, Mandos is moved to pity, and both are allowed to reincarnate (as Elves who are killed sometimes do) on the condition that Lúthien give up her immortality and share Beren's ultimate fate, the true Death that is the Gift of Men. Their children and descendants are afforded the same choice (though those that choose humanity bind their own descendants to that fate as well).
- The Fall of Gondolin: The Man Túor and the Elf princess Idril fall in love. Their ultimate fate is not known for certain, but it is believed that Túor is the only Man to be granted an exception from the Gift of Death and allowed to join Idril and the Elves in the Undying Lands.
- In The Twilight Saga, Bella, a human, and Edward, a vampire, start a romantic relationship. After they are married, Bella is turned into a vampire when she is dying after a difficult childbirth.
- Wayward Children: Christopher and the Skeleton Girl have this planned for when they're reunited in her Magical Land. If she sacrifices him properly, he'll become a Calaca with his memory and personality intact, and he's very eager to make their love eternal.
Live-Action TV
- Doctor Who: An invoked example. In "Delta and The Bannermen", the human Billy falls in love with Queen Delta (one of only two surviving Chimerons). So they can be together (and to give her race a chance of survival) he voluntarily takes the Royal Jelly causing him to mutate into a Chimeron male.
- Doom Patrol (2019): In the penultimate episode, the entirely human (albeit very eccentric) Dr. Yu allows herself to be infected by a were-butt so that she and her were-butt husband Nicholas can truly be together.
Mythology and Religion
- Classical Mythology: It's not unheard of for a relationship between a god/goddess and a mortal to eventually end with the mortal marrying the divine partner and as a result either being turned into a god or at the very least immortal, solving the biggest hurdle in such a relationship. Some good examples include Psyche and Eros, Ariadne and Dionysus, and (in some versions) Thetis and Peleus.
- Malaysian Mythology: According to some legends, members of the mystical invisible Orang bunian race can intermarry with humans, after which they too become invisible. Perhaps they are turned into Orang bunian.
Theatre
- Downplayed in An Ordinary Miracle by Yevgeny Shvarts. The Wizard turns the Bear into a human, with the clause that he'll be turned back after a True Love's Kiss from a human princess. The Bear and the Princess fall in love, and after she kisses him, he retains his human form for good instead.
- In Shurale, Süimbike is a woman-bird and Ali-Batyr is a human. When it looks like they will die in a forest fire, Süimbike burns her wings to stay with her beloved forever.
- Subverted in Starship. The alien bug named Bug falls in love with the human February. At some point, he gets a human body but returns to his bug form at the end.
Video Games
- Baldur's Gate III: Possible for the player character in the endgame. They have the option to enter a romance with the Mind Flayer called the Emperor. They also have the option to accept the illithid infection within them and become a Mind Flayer themself. If they do both, the Emperor is ''very'' appreciative of their transformation.
- I Was a Teenage Exocolonist: Sol and Dys, the two only human options who are on Sym's romance radar regardless of timeline, can potentially become Gardeners and hence avoid the Mayfly–December Romance that tends to occur by default, among other issues. Sym can't become human, but one of the endings can leave him with abilities and a remaining lifespan that are much closer to that of a human. Said ending deprives him of his connection to the Gardener Array, shapeshifting, Body Backup Drive and ability to heal; this adds up to him being both physically and mentally stuck in his human form, growing old and being doomed to die within decades instead of potentially continuing to exist for another century or ten.
- Jak and Daxter: Daxter, a human-turned-ottsel, meets Tess, a human, in Jak II: Renegade and the two of them become attracted to each other. At the end of Jak 3, after the Precursors grant Daxter's wish to have a cool pair of pants, Tess wishes to have a pair just like him. They interpret it as a request to be turned into an ottsel and grant the wish, but Daxter assures her it's a matter of getting used to.
- Trials of Mana: In the game's backstory, the cleric Leron and the elf Shayla were forbidden to be together, so they used magic to turn Shayla human. This shortened not just Shayla's lifespan, but also Leron's, and the two died while their daughter Charlotte was extremely young, forcing Leron's father to step in and raise her instead.
Visual Novels
- In Bloodbound, Amy is a human while all her potential love interests are vampires. At the end of Book 2, she is turned into a vampire as well after getting fatally wounded with a katana.
- In the Golden Ending of Trouble Days, the succubus Lovelia is "punished" for falling in love with the human protagonist by her supervisor turning her into a human, allowing her to live out the rest of her days with him.
Webcomics
- Housepets!:
- A unique example in King and Bailey; As King is a human turned into a dog who falls in love with Bailey, another dog, this would typically be only an example of The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body and Attractive Bent Species. However, King's human half continues to exist throughout the Game arc, culminating in Pete ripping away his dog form entirely and returning him to what he once was. As a reward for defeating Pete and Dragon, his prize is to equalize once and for all, becoming a full-time canine.
- Henry Milton, a human in life, chooses to become a ferret in Heaven and pursues a romance with Keene's biological mother of the same species.
- Subverted in the Oglaf strip "Herp", where a Bewitched Amphibian is returned to human form on marrying a princess... who, it turns out, has a fetish for frogs and didn't think the curse would be undone. So the man crosses out the contract to annul the marriage... which turns him back into a frog, and causes the princess to grin lustily at him.
- The Selfish Beast and the Selfless Maiden: The Maiden ends up falling for Drak, a dragon who used to be human before being cursed into his present form. As a result of stealing a dagger from Drak's horde, the Maiden ends up being changed into a dragon herself, but reassures Drak that his curse is cured by virtue of no longer having to be alone (now that they are both dragons).
The Maiden: You were cursed with loneliness, cursed to be a plague to mankind, but you have me now, everything will change for the better, I promise.
Western Animation
- Aladdin: The Series: To prove that love is ultimately superficial, Mirage uses a potion to transform Jasmine into a snake creature that can't even touch Aladdin without poisoning him. The heroes embark on a search for the cure, but Mirage destroys it, confident that Aladdin will forsake Jasmine when there's no hope of curing her. Aladdin reacts to the loss of the cure by using the potion to turn himself into a snake creature. Once Mirage is proven wrong, Fasir restores the cure.
- Parodied in Drawn Together when Princess Clara attempts to free herself of her Octopussoir (her vagina that's been cursed to have a tentacle monster attached to it) by kissing her true love. When a prince kisses it, rather than removing the monster, his own genitals transform into a second Octopussoir. He immediately shoots himself out of grief.
- Extreme Ghostbusters: In a creepy way. In the episode "The Crawler" a demonic insect king, Cohila, appears. He falls in love with Janine and kidnaps her to marry her and make her his queen, turning her into an insect demon like himself. Of course, Janine doesn't love him back and wants to remain human.
- Steven Universe: The in-universe book series The Spirit Morph Saga ends with the human protagonist Lisa and her falcon familiar Archimicarus getting married after they find a spell to make Archimicarus human.
- The Transformers: Subverted in "Sea Change". Seaspray and a human alien/mermaid named Alana change their forms using the Well of Transformation, with both of them being Human Aliens/merfolk and Transformers at different points, with each hoping to appeal to the other. The episode concludes with both of them back in their original forms, and they decide they don't need to be the same to be together.