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Drax, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 "If he's a planet, how could he make a baby with your mother? He would smush her."

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The usual intermediary step between an Interspecies Romance and a Mix-and-Match Critter.

In Video Games where you Gotta Catch Them All, and where "them" are Mons, often the only way to acquire every last critter in the game is to, well, breed them. This may involve somewhat conventional animal husbandry, or stranger things, but the important thing is that there are not always reasonable limits on what can be bred to what. The unintentional (or intentional) ability to produce this phenomenon is attributed to Gameplay and Story Segregation.

In a broader sense, this may apply to any work of fiction in which two grossly dissimilar species are somehow capable of interbreeding. This pretty much misses the point of the term "species", which is supposed to indicate which animals can breed successfully in the first place.Note Which is a rather shaky definition further confounded by domestic dogs due to their rather wonky genetics: a Great Dane and a chihuahua obviously cannot breed due to the size difference, despite being considered the same species, while domesticated dogs are known to produce fertile hybrids with coyotes and wolves, which are generally considered separate species.

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If the result of this unholy union isn't a Half-Human Hybrid or some variety of Mix-and-Match Critter, then Gender Equals Breed may very well apply, with the offspring being strictly one of its parent species.

In case you did not understand all that: To make a long story short, it's basically a giant animal in a romantic relationship with a small animal. So, how can they make babies?

This is somewhat Truth in Television, because as strange as this may seem, there ARE species in the real world which display this same sort of extreme dimorphism, to the point where they have been miscategorized as wholly different species in the past. Anglerfish males, due to being basically just parasitic appendages to females, are arguably the most famous example. This just might be one of these cases.

The trope name itself comes from the GameFAQs boards, where the user "Endgame" made a topic containing the name and elaborated (see the Video Games entry on this page for explanation).

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Compare Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex. See Also Interspecies Romance and Hybrid Monster. See G-Rated Sex for when this is seen as Unfortunate Implications and therefore defied with a means of reproduction that avoids mating like normal animals.

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for lubricant gel. An older ad for Red Bull had a (male) dachshund followed by a (female) dalmatian, and a trail of half-breed puppies, the dachshund then illustrates how he made it work .

. Ads for "Silent Night" mattresses featured a hippo and a duck living together. One later ad showed them putting their kids to bed (half of whom were ducks, and half were hippos), implying this trope.

One of the adverts for British television provider Freeview involved a romantic duet with a budgie and a cat. A later online campaign involved short clips of their child, a budgie with a cats head.

Anime & Manga

Comedy

In Bill Cosby's old "Seattle" routine, he describes the Seattle Zoo's attempt to induce their old male gorilla to mate. As a last resort, they shoot him with an aphrodisiac-filled dart, which the ape pulls out and throws away when it does nothing for him. Unfortunately, it strikes a hippo. Bill: And the hippo went wild! I mean, everything... birds, trees, grass, garbage cans. He was all over the place. As a matter of fact, they have some of the weirdest looking animals out in that zoo now... they have a giraffe with a hippo's head and his neck can't hold the head up!

Kevin Smith often tells a story about his dog Mulder, a huge chocolate lab, whom Smith had assumed was asexual due to a total disinterest in humping anything. Then he brought home Shecky, a miniature dachshund too small to get fixed. Mulder was all over Shecky the first time she went into heat.

Comic Books

Comic Strips

In one Bloom County arc, Hodge Podge and Rosebud, respectively a jackrabbit and "basselope" (basset hound/antelope) had jackabasselope children.

Fan Works

Films — Animation

Films — Live-Action

Jokes

Two Mad Scientists talk about their latest experiments: "I crossbred a hedgehog with an earthworm. The result was: One yard of barbed wire!"

"Interesting. But I managed to cross a pig with a letterbox. The result: A piggybank!"

There is a joke about a man who crossed a cockroach with a watermelon  now, there is no bothering with getting the seeds out.

Then there's the guy who crossed a Blue Tit with an enormous pear tree, and was very disappointed to get an enormous pair of blue trees.

What do you get when you cross a human with a goat? Kicked out of the petting zoo.

What do you get when you cross a cow with an octopus? A visit from the ethics committee and immediate withdrawal of your funding.

Two hunters in a Kenyan bar are discussing the meanest animal in Africa, one claiming it's the lion, the other claiming it's the crocodile, and ask the bartender to play tiebreaker. The bartender tells them it's neither animal, but their offspring, the crocolion, an animal with the head and paws of a lion at one end, and the head and legs of a crocodile at the other. The hunters refuse to believe him, claiming such an animal couldn't exist, as it can't poop. "And why do you think it's the meanest animal in Africa?"

Literature

Live-Action TV

Music

The novelty song Buntz! tells of a highly acrobatic tryst between a British ship's-mascot dachshund and a classy female Afghan. But now throughout France a new dog breed abounds:

The famous Marseille Afghan short-legged hound!

Fatally averted in Eric Bogle's Little Gomez, in which the randy chihuahua's St. Bernard paramour got bored (and sat down) just a bit too soon. He did however bag two poodles and a labrador, and made an attempt on a wombat.

The song The Dragon's Lamentable Love, about a woman and a male dragon. "True love died 'cause nothing fit. That's the long and short of it."

Da Yoopers have a song called "Chiquito War", about a mosquito-chicken hybrid bred through a combination of this trope and Black Comedy Rape.

The Brobdingnagian Bards song "Do Virgins Taste Better?" wonders why dragons prefer kidnapping virgins to any other kind of person. "Dragons and virgins. Dragons. And virgins. The mechanics alone boggles the mind."

my mother-in-law is a scorpion , somehow a giant female scorpion mated with a male human, and gave birth to a completely human looking daughter.

Myths & Religion

Pro Wrestling

The Iron Sheik, gentleman that he is, once related in an interview about how he walked in on André the Giant having sex with a normal-sized woman. He likened it to a "bear fucking a rabbit, if the rabbit could get on top."

Alexa Bliss & Braun Strowman (Team Little Big) were literally built on this trope when they teamed together during the WWE Mixed Match Challenge. In fact, the entire basis of the team was the difference in size and constant flirtations.

Puppet Shows

Meet the Feebles by Peter Jackson note Yes, that one An elephant named Sid is said to have had sexual relations with a chicken. Said chicken then brings up a paternity suit against Sid, who claims the baby isn't his ("She slept with half the chorus!"). It becomes apparent, however, that the baby was, in fact, fathered by Sid, as it's seen that the baby is a cross between a chicken and an elephant. Also the boss of the theater (a walrus) is having an affair with his secretary (a cat). On screen.



Tabletop Games

Theater

In Into the Woods, it's heavily implied that Jack gets it on in some manner with the Giantess at the top of the beanstalk (the line is "And she gave me food and she gave me rest, and she drew me close to her giant breast"). It's also pretty clear that the Big Bad Wolf intends to rape Little Red Riding Hood. And her Granny.

Video Games

Web Animation

Web Comics

Web Original

Web Videos

When Little One in Tales from My D&D Campaign has to explain that his mother was a dragon, one of the other players brings up this trope. However, Little One explains that dragons can assume human form if they so desire.

The very end of The Nostalgia Critic's review of Zeus and Roxanne showed half-dog and half-dolphin offspring of the two titular animals.

Western Animation