Monster girl

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A monster girl is a fictional trope of a girl or young woman who is or shares visual traits with a monster. The trope is historically used strictly negatively and antagonistically as a representation of an ugly, cruel, or deceitful woman; such incarnations often have the woman hide her monstrous traits to deceive others. More recent works of media often depict monster girls neutrally, as merely another race of people, or positively, with their monstrous traits being a type of superpower they use to help others. Monster girls also feature prominently in anime and manga, in which their depiction ranges between humanization and body positivity as a form of female empowerment, to sexualized objectification as a form of monster erotica. Monstrous women and girls in popular culture become representatives of women who not only deviate from the norm, but stand out.

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