Top 8 Interspecies Couples In Media

Interspecies couples have been around in all forms of fiction for quite a while. And while upon first hearing of it, we can think: “Ew. That’s not for me.” And then we realize, oh yes, we love this. Whether it’s a romance with vampires, aliens, or demons, we seem to secretly enjoy this kind of love. I’ve compiled a list of my favorite interspecies couples, along with honorable mentions and a list of interspecies couples that should have or may happen. WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD! READ AT YOUR OWN RISK! Let’s start!

8. Jake and Neytiri
Movie: Avatar; Species: Jake – Human(Avatar), Neytiri (Alien)
Even though not my favorite, still a cute one. Jake is a human, who becomes an “avatar” to explore the alien world where he meets Neytiri and after some issues lives happily ever after…I hope.

7. Aiden and Vivian
Movie/Book: Blood and Chocolate; Species: Aiden – Human, Vivian – Werewolf
To be very honest, I never saw the movie. I only read the book, and we know how the book ends, not very happy for Vivian at first. I just love this couple because werewolves are just so underrated. And Vivian and Aiden were awesome together.

6. Hideki and Chii
Anime: Chobits; Species: Hideki – Human, Chii – Robot
It’s been awhile since I watched this series, but I remember the love Hideki showed for Chii, and if I remember right, she loved him back. Originally, Chii was a broken robot (that’s not the term used, but I can’t remember) that he found outside, and he took her home, and bam! Here we are putting them on the list!

5. Lupin and Tonks
Movies/Books: The Harry Potter series; Species: Lupin – Werewolf, Tonks – Witch
Another werewolf, ah. I have to love this couple because Tonks seriously loves Lupin. Not only is she always insisting to stay with him despite his protests of being not normal and too old, she has his baby too. How sweet!!!

4. Fred and Laliari
Movie: Galaxy Quest; Species: Fred – Human, Laliari – Alien
There is really not much to say about this couple other than that once you get past the tentacles, it’s really very sweet. Fred meets her upon coming aboard the Thermian ship, and he’s instantly attracted to her, tentacles and all. That must be true love.

3. Renton and Eureka
Anime: Eureka Seven; Species: Renton – Human, Eureka – Alien-ish Being
Yes, that is seriously the best way I can describe her. I can’t remember her actual species name, but it’s alien-like. Eureka was created by some things called the Scrub to observe (if I remember correctly). Renton had an initial attraction to her, and works very hard to keep it a secret, yet get feelings back from her. Later on, she does indeed fall in love with him. And here they are at number three!

2. Roger and Jessica Rabbit
Movie: Who Framed Roger Rabbit; Species: Roger – Rabbit, Jessica – Human
Most people I’ve mention this couple to like to tell me that in the Roger Rabbit universe, they’re both Toons, so they’re the same species. I say nay! I feel like that’s saying a Vulcan and a Klingon are the same species because they’re aliens. They’re just two different alien species, like Roger and Jessica are two different species of Toons. They’re just all jealous of Roger because, well, Jessica really does love him.

1. Kermit and Miss Piggy
Movies/Show: The Muppets; Species: Kermit – Frog, Miss Piggy – Pig
If you haven’t heard of this couple, you’ve been living under a rock since birth. Probably one of the most well known interspecies couples, they’ve been together, and shown love (maybe even obsession on Piggy’s part) toward each other for years. And guess what? They’re still together. They really are the number one couple for this group.

~Honorable Mentions~
This is basically for the couples that, while I was researching, popped up on multiple lists, but I don’t know them too well, so I just want to stick em up here, so you know that I know that they exist.

Fido and Helen
Movie: Fido; Species: Fido – Zombie, Helen – Human

Pygar and Barbarella
Series: Barbarella; Species: Pygar – Angel, Barbarella – Human

Vincent and Catherine
Show: Beauty and the Beast; Species: Vincent – Beast, Catherine – Human

Spike and Buffy
Show: Buffy The Vampire Slayer; Species: Spike – Vampire, Buffy – Human

Allen and Madison
Movie: Splash; Species: Allen – Human, Madison – Mermaid

The Doctor and Rose
Show: Doctor Who; Species: The Doctor – Time Lord, Rose – Human

~Couples We Really Wish Would Happen/Know They Won’t But Still Like The Thought Of~

Beetlejuice and Lydia
Series: Beetlejuice; Species: Beetlejuice – Ghost, Lydia – Human
I don’t mean the movie, either. Whether we were older when we watched the show, or rewatched episodes as an older person to remember our childhood, we saw that Beetlejuice obviously really likes Lydia. There was a whole episode about him being jealous when she was hanging with another ghost. Whether Lydia liked him back like that, I’m not sure. I can’t remember if she ever returned feelings for him during the course of the show. The one thing I do know is that they never would have been together in the series since she can’t be any older than 12 while Beetlejuice is God knows how old. Ghost pedophilia anyone? They’re still cute together.

Spongebob and Sandy
Series: Spongebob Squarepants; Species: Spongebob – Sea Sponge, Sandy – Squirrel
Oh yes, they are here. Whether you like it or not, it’s pretty much shown that Spongebob likes Sandy…a lot. He wrote her song from the bottom of his heart, brings her flowers all the time, and loves to be with her. I want to see this happen.

Dudley Puppy and Miss Kitty
Series: Tuff Puppy; Species: Dudley – Dog, Kitty – Cat
I honestly don’t keep up with this show, but I love the couple either way. My younger brother watches it, and I’ve seen enough episodes to know something should happen, cause it looks like something will and whether this something leads to something else or nothing, I like them together.

Jim and Mala
Movie: Battle For Terra; Species: Jim – Human, Mala – Alien
Most people will tell you this couple was probably never going to happen even if Jim did live. Well I believe there was potential, he just needed to live so it could be explored. I think anyway.

The Baron and Haru
Movie: The Cat Returns, Species: The Baron – Cat Figurine, Haru – Human
I just loved the thought of this couple so much words can’t describe it.

Thor and Jane
Comics: Thor; Species: Thor – God, Jane – Human
I deeply feel that I wasn’t the only person who wanted these two to hook up, and still want them to. I mean come on, they loved each other!

~Unhonorable Mentions~

Edward and Bella
Books/Movies: The Twilight Series; Species: Edward – Vampire, Bella – Human
Oh, you didn’t think I’d forgotten the new poster child of interspecies relationships did you? I won’t lie, I read the books and watched the first two movies. I was okay with the creativity, what I wasn’t okay with was the writing, how bland and whiny Bella was, Bella and Edward’s relationship, and the godawful ending. No big, epic last battle! No gore! I read a vampire book for some blood and fights and/or great storytelling. None of that was there. Anyway, I personally feel Edward and Bella had quite the abusive relationship with him leaving and her turning all risk taking, and the blaming, the angst, the complaining. Where exactly was the love?? Edward, you just gave interspecies relationships a bad name. Bah!

What did you think? Agree? Disagree? Did I miss anyone? Who are your favorite couples?

Fanfiction – Sometimes You Need To Just Say No

Lately, I’ve been starting to get into the wonderful world of fanfiction. I’ve always had friends who write and read fanfiction, and they’d ask me ask me to read their stuff, and I did. It was great and all, don’t get me wrong, I even just started writing my own and reading more, but there’s some fanfiction scenarios that people should refuse to read and or write. The big first thing I want to cover is couples. I’m all for writing fanfics and shipping couples canon or not, but some you just need to stay away from (for me personally).

I’ll give you a few examples (general and specific) that stand out most to me. Starting with:

1. Yaoi/yuri (gay/lesbian)best friend turned lovers couples – I have nothing against yaoi and yuri, I even like some stories and pairings like that (except for a few choice people), but when they’re best friends, it’s not right. I don’t like to envision two best friends wanting to do each other. If you’ve read the Harry Potter books (or watched the movie) you know that Harry’s best friend is Ron Weasley. And that’s how I like them…BEST FRIENDS. There was an anime I got super into a few years ago called Saiyuki which was about four guys, two are best friends while the other two are very close and probably could be called best friends. One best friend pair is Gojyo and Hakkai, and I managed to come across a gold mine of Gojyo/Hakkai slash stories. Not what I was feeling. For a female pair, try imagining Mia and Lily from The Princess Diaries getting it on.  Personally I feel that making best friends lovers takes away the bond two people share when being best friends.

2. Older/younger smut stories – Much older man/woman falling for much younger girl/guy especially an underage girl/guy, I can work with it. What I can’t work with is when that pairing turns sexual. For an example, Naruto has always had people pairing off couples, but one couple I noticed was the Kakashi/Sakura couple. A nice little student teacher shipping that’s been quite popular with a few fans. Fine. Honestly, I kinda of like them too (for my own reasons of course) what I don’t like is when the story I’m reading becomes a sex filled frenzy between an older teacher and his underage student. Granted some people specify if Sakura’s an adult, but most don’t and I have to assume she regular aged.

3. Incestuous couples – Oh, yes. This needs to happen. Right here, right now. Incest is a big no-no, and even bigger no-no is turning an unincestuous relationship into one. I know there’s some canon incest couples, but when you take a totally innocent pair of family members and make them want each other, it is disturbing. Nobody wants to watch a show that features a brother and a sister who on the tube are not romantically involved but in some fankid’s story they’re doing it every night. Can you ever watch that show the same way again? I think not.

Outside of couples there’s only a few things I feel that shouldn’t be tolerated in fanfiction. One being…making someone a rapist/pedophile/all around creeper. Granted, we read stories/watch movies and television shows with taboo themes almost all of the time BUT when you go and turn a character into something their not, there is a problem. Sometimes when you watch or read something you feel something for the characters, whether it be fondness, hate, jealousy, sympathy…but you feel for them in some way. How would you like to have an established thought and feeling about someone, then read something that just screws it all over? You don’t like it at all. Just as a made up example: in the Teen Titans comics Deathstroke (aka Slade from the Teen Titans cartoons) is in a sexual relationship with an underage Terra (for real, totally canon). That’s fine. Part of his character. He can tap that all he wants. Start made up example here: Now if you take, oh lets say, Superman and decide you don’t like him with Lois Lane, in fact you want Superman to like an underage Batgirl, not just that though…you’re gonna make him rape her cause you know what, it’s one-sided, but Superman wants some! (…I feel a tad ashamed of myself for being able to think that). See, we don’t want that, cause we know that isn’t Superman!

One last fanfiction point that just tells you to say no is making an original character that not only dominates your story to death, but makes everyone else look not so cool when in a group. I’m a big Marvel fan, and enjoy Marvel fanfics. I really like when people make up their own superhero and stick them in the Marvel Universe (or any other comic universe really). This story is about your character, I get it. If you’re going to put them in a group or partner them with someone, please don’t make EVERYthing happen to them. Don’t make them the strongest person in that universe who can almost die, but never die, and please, pretty please don’t make the character irresistible. It’s your story I know, but what makes a good story is weakness, imperfection, conflicts (inside and outside of the partnership/group) and most of all balance. Your character is the main person, so things will happen to them, but when you put them in a group it’s not all about that one person anymore. It’s about all of them now, whether you created them yourself or you’re borrowing them from their respective comicverse.

Okay, so that’s the end of my spiel about fanfiction. What about you? Are their any lines you draw? Do you just love it all?

Just Another Old Update For May

How’s your month of May going so far? Good? I hope so. As for me, fine. Going fine. I figure an update is in order since really, nothing exciting has happened and I’m too tired to think. Haha, I feel lazy today. I did stop by the library though to pick up a few books that I look very forward to reading.  They are as follows:

• People of the Moon by W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O’Neal Gear
• Maus: A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman
• The Dream of Perpetual Motion by Dexter Palmer

It’s just 3 books, but so what? I can’t read everything can I? But I’m willing to try out any book. Gimmie a book title and I promise to get it out of the library next month!

In other updatey news…my Back In Anime Time part three will be up soon. Tomorrow actually so check it out! Yeah. I’ve also been writing a lot of poems as of late. I haven’t really written poems since I’m always busy these days, but I will post a few of my older ones and newer ones soon.

Also….yeah I’ve been changing my theme for this blog lately. Sorry….I just can’t settle on anything. I really just can’t. But I’ll try not to change it around to too much. And I mean that. From the bottom of my heart. I do…

Happy Free Comic Book Day!

Who else got some free comics?? Anyone? Well I did! I’m super happy about it too. This time around though I’ve decided to widen out with my comics selection. I always got superhero comics since I adore heroes. But today instead of Superman, Iron Man, Spiderman, Batman, etc…I looked for more choices. I got some that were older, but that’s fine in my book. I enjoy getting the volumes that have comic issues in them over just one issue at a time. What I got today was:

1. The Ballad of Sleeping Beauty
2. X-Men (I think it’s this one. Pixie’s the main character. Heh)
3. Worlds of Aspen featuring: Soulfire, Shrugged, Fathom, and Soulfire: Chaos Reign
4. The Astounding Wolf-Man

Also as an added pleasure for myself I bought an issue of The Tick: The Edlund Epic except I bought issue 5. They didn’t have it on Amazon. Oh Well. I grew up watching The Tick and knew I wasn’t leaving without it. So now I own it. Cause I just needed it.

I haven’t read any of them yet, but I will tonight and do believe they will be awesome.

What did you get this Free Comic Book Day?

My next post will be: A review for The Avengers movie

So stay tuned! (oh, how corny that sounds…)

The Avengers – Just One Week Away!

I’m so totally super excited. I’ll be at the midnight showing, and I just can’t wait!

I do have a few concerns like do they all share the spotlight well, will Iron Man hog all the glory (kind of like what Wolverine did in the last three X-Men movies, not including his origins one), will it be in any way close to the comics, and the big one for me, will there be tension between Iron Man and Captain America? Cause I’ll be a little mad if there isn’t.

What about you? Who else is totally super excited? What are your concerns or hopes for this movie?