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Mermaid Problem

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Mermaid Problem	label	Mermaid Problem
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Mermaid Problem	comment	In any work of fiction with mermaids, there's a good chance that a character will begin a romantic, or even a sexual, relationship with one. There's just one problem for the intrepid sailor looking for a port in these waters: there's no... obvious point of entry. That isn't to say, of course, that mermaids are completely lacking in sexual organs. Real fish, of course, have actual genitals. They just aren't compatible with those of a mammal, let alone easy to find or obvious to point out. A few biologists have a hard time even calling piscine reproductive organs "genitals" because they are so very different from what we humans would recognize. Most (though not all) fish reproduce externally, meaning that conception happens outside of the body. The female lays her eggs first, which are then fertilized by the male's free-floating sperm. A far cry from what most other animals would recognize as making sweet love. Of course, most writers simply disregard the biological impossibilities. Many writers simply Hand Wave any difficulties by saying that mermaids have the ability to assume fully human form under special circumstances. Also, mermaids with two tails—called melusina—do exist, where they would have human genitals in between. On the other hand, authors familiar with biology might give merfolk a cloaca—the shared orifice of urethra and anus used by marine mammals, reptiles, birds, and some fish—and have the genitalia of either sex located within. Lastly, a good number of series and fiction writers might also have the fish/human separation dip a little in the front (in a U-shape) to allow for genitalia. This trope mainly deals with the variety where they don't gain human legs and have the standard fish equipment downstairs. It is equally applicable to mermen, since they'd lack a penis for all the same reasons. And despite most merfolk having perfectly functional, humanlike hands and mouths, don't expect the human/merfolk pair to explore other forms of sexual gratification beyond plain old penis-in-vagina. Sometimes this problem may be lampshaded, but others no explanation is given. Compare Non-Mammal Mammaries; see also Exotic Equipment. noreallife
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Mermaid Problem / int_1027a1fb	comment	Defied by the title character in Abobo's Big Adventure. He can still mate with a mermaid, so the offspring can protect him.
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Mermaid Problem / int_102a22a7	comment	Alluded to in Ansem Retort when Sora asks Ariel where mermaids come from. Her reply suggests that merfolk do not reproduce themselves, but are the product of a man loving a dolphin more than society says he should.
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Mermaid Problem / int_124831d1	comment	Averted by the mermaid on the "Neptune" table of Pinball Dreams 2, who has clearly-delineated buttocks despite having a tail.
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Mermaid Problem / int_14783adb	comment	Played with for laughs in The Dating Guy. After V.J. successfully has sex with a mermaid, he wonders afterwards how exactly he accomplished that.
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Mermaid Problem / int_16382ed9	comment	The Syrena Legacy: When Syrena are in their underwater form, they have a fish tail and no reproductive organs. In order to mate, they have to go onto an island and turn into their human forms.
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Mermaid Problem / int_174feaf6	comment	The Shape of Water averts this. As the heroine explains to her friend through hand gestures, the fishman who she falls in love with has dolphin-style normally internal genitals that emerge from a hole between his legs.
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Mermaid Problem / int_1a80a1cc	comment	Alida Van Gores' 1989 novel Mermaid's Song takes the dolphin-based mermaid route straight into soft-core porn territory.
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Mermaid Problem / int_2046f56e	comment	Merpeople in A Centaur's Life evolved from aquatic primates and their tails begin below the knees, being fully human from the knees up. Interspecies Romance is possible, as they do have human genitals.
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Mermaid Problem / int_20948a39	type	Mermaid Problem
Mermaid Problem / int_20948a39	comment	In Tales of Monkey Island, Guybrush learns that Winslow and an ambiguously gendered merperson are in a relationship, and wonders aloud "how that works... logistically."
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Mermaid Problem / int_21d240fd	comment	In Mermaid Moon, merfolk's genitals are on the front of their tails, hidden by a belly fin. The trope is also inverted, as SjÃ¦ldent explains to Sanna how sex between humans works.
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Mermaid Problem / int_234b78e5	comment	In Changeling: The Dreaming, mermaids grow legs on land, averting the Problem. They also have a reproductive cycle that involves kissing, making them understandably shy about it while willing to have sex at the drop of a hat. (They still need to have sex to have babies. It's just that kissing "stimulates" the women in ways that sex alone doesn't, making pregnancy possible.)
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Mermaid Problem / int_2c9a932f	comment	A horror story in the Vampirella mag has a sailor falling head over heels for a very pretty mermaid. He's a pain in the gills until he finally can marry her. Looks he wanted it all just for the sex, too bad her species reproduces like fish, i.e. laying eggs...
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Mermaid Problem / int_2f203125	comment	The mermaids in the Shin Megami Tensei series avert this, their tails only go up to above their knees, with completely human looking thighs, giving them a sort of Zettai Ryouiki with their scale bikinis.
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Mermaid Problem / int_2f879a72	comment	Red Ears: One strip addressed this when a sex-starved sailor stranded on a "Far Side" Island catches a mermaid while fishing. After several comically failed attempts to have sex with her, he just decides to eat her instead.
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Mermaid Problem / int_33a61b13	type	Mermaid Problem
Mermaid Problem / int_33a61b13	comment	Averted in One Hundred Years of Solitude, which mentions that "The great swamp in the west mingled with a boundless extension of water where there were soft-skinned cetaceans that had the head and torso of a woman, causing the ruination of sailors with the charm of their extraordinary breasts." Seemingly these beings didn't have intercourse with their victims.
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Mermaid Problem / int_3802ca35	comment	Not directly mentioned, but figures in the symbolism in Rule of Rose chapter "Mermaid Princess". The titular 'mermaid' is Clara who is all but confirmed to be a victim of sexual abuse, and takes a mermaid appearance by having her legs tied together with coils of rope, invoking either her sexual subservience, or attempt to protect herself, depending on whom you ask.
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Mermaid Problem / int_3aeb1c75	comment	This became a big issue for Master Roshi in an early chapter of Dragon Ball when Goku brought him a mermaid girl. He did attempt to make the most of the situation by leering at her chest, but he got punched in the face for his trouble.
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Mermaid Problem / int_3c1af3c	comment	A gender flipped example between Hiccup and Astrid comes up in What The Water Gave Me a few times.
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Mermaid Problem / int_3defe34c	type	Mermaid Problem
Mermaid Problem / int_3defe34c	comment	Discussed and averted in Mercedes Lackey's Fortune's Fool, where the mer-princess heroine falls for a human and has to endure some ribald joking from her father about how it's fortunate her ancestors were sirens and not mermaids.
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Mermaid Problem / int_43366464	comment	The Disney Channel series Pair of Kings apparently uses this trope, as there's a preview airing where one of the main characters encounters a mermaid and says something along the lines of "I prefer my women to have legs!" Seems a bit blatant for a Disney Channel tween sitcom to actually make a "mermaids don't have vaginas" joke, don't ya think?
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Mermaid Problem / int_436883f7	type	Mermaid Problem
Mermaid Problem / int_436883f7	comment	Conversely, the mermaid-like Umiau from the Well World series are hermaphroditic, not shy about that fact, and not at all interested in sex outside their species.
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Mermaid Problem / int_470a1314	comment	Resonance Days features a quick joke where Kyouko keeps asking if Oktavia poops like a human or a fish. (It's the former.)
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Mermaid Problem / int_4b776f11	type	Mermaid Problem
Mermaid Problem / int_4b776f11	comment	Referenced in Mermaid Down. During Dr. Beyer's Attempted Rape of the mermaid, he tries to cut her open to have access to her "fish parts."
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Mermaid Problem / int_4e45b093	type	Mermaid Problem
Mermaid Problem / int_4e45b093	comment	On The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon mentions that he is working on several subjects at once, including figuring out how mermaids reproduce. When Raj asks if she just lays her eggs on a rock, Sheldon finds himself with one thing less to think about.
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Mermaid Problem / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Non-mermaid variation in Homestuck: sprites have a similar appearance, with a human (or animal, or whatever it was prototyped with) top half and a ghostly bottom half. John lampshades the problem here, while making some suggestive hand-gestures: Meanwhile, the fandom has come up with its own array of solutions to the problem, such as Davesprite gaining avian genitalia from the rambunctious crow he merged with.
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Mermaid Problem / int_5999b1ec	comment	In Xanth, mermaids and mermen can assume human form, but when they mate with each other, they prefer to do it underwater, in their half-fish shape. When a (human) character asks how it's donenote The In-Universe explanation for the Interspecies Romance common to Xanth is something called "Accommodation Spells", she is told to mind her own business.
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Mermaid Problem / int_5d354f8	comment	Parodied in Red Dwarf. When the crew were in a VR machine, Cat waved to his new girlfriend, who was a mermaid. She had a fish head and human legs. When asked, "Shouldn't it be the other way around?", Cat responded, "No! That's the stupid way around," while flicking his tongue out afterwards. Hmmm...
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Mermaid Problem / int_638624c8	comment	The genders are reversed in Slayers. When instructed to kiss Lina, Nunsa comments that he's considered one of the best catches in his school, then sits down and patiently waits for...something. It turns out that, as a fish, Nunsa is only aware of the concept of "kissing" as being vaguely related to mating, so he's waiting for her to lay the eggs.
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Mermaid Problem / int_6449f850	type	Mermaid Problem
Mermaid Problem / int_6449f850	comment	Mero from Monster Musume has human genitalia where a human's would be, but she also has pelvic fins for steering and wears clothes that cover that particular part of her body anyway. It's especially prominent during the "Second D" letter, as she tries to get Someone to Remember Him By before the situation gets cleared up. It should be noted that this doesn't seem to be a problem with the other monster girls either, Miia the lamia has human parts where the tail meets the body, Centorea the centaur has her reproductive organs in the same spot as horses, though not directly stated it is strongly implied that Rachnera the arachne has compatible parts were her spider half meets human half and that her pedipalps are used to hold mates in place. It helps that most "X from the waist down" monstergirls in this series are more "X from the hips down." Lamia and arachne both are all-female species that depend on human men for reproduction, so obviously they'd have to have compatible genetalia.
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Mermaid Problem / int_64776522	type	Mermaid Problem
Mermaid Problem / int_64776522	comment	Sidesteped in Yggdra Union. The mermaid-esque Undine race are a One-Gender Race that reproduce via some kind of reincarnation fueled via a MacGuffin. Needless to say when this gets stolen, all hell breaks loose.
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Mermaid Problem / int_65951562	comment	Spoofed by Hardly Working when Dan introduces everyone to his fiance, except the problem is inverted because she's a maidmer with a fish head and a human lower body. The others point out that the Interspecies Romance implications of this variation only makes it worse.
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Mermaid Problem / int_6afdd74f	comment	Non-mermaid example played for drama in Daily Equestria Life with Monster Girl where Cerea from Monster Musume. During an emotional breakdown in chapter 10, she winds up convincing herself that no matter how much attraction might be shown to her upper torso, ultimately, she would have been asking Kimihito to have sex with a horse. This story is set before the revelation that her father was actually human.
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Mermaid Problem / int_6cb2d709	comment	Played with in a Harry Potter fanfic called Jewel of the Nile (also web archive link) in which a couple of characters don polymorphing mer-costumes before splashing about and indulging in heavy makeout sessions underwater. The tails prevent them from doing anything below the waist, but as a temporary restriction that can be quite entertaining...
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Mermaid Problem / int_6fe3e8a7	comment	In Neopets, the Water and Fountain Faeries have their tail extending higher to cover their breasts, making it look more like a dress than a tail.
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Mermaid Problem / int_74828f14	comment	Beside the obvious problem, Sheila of Hekikai no AiON has to deal with the fact that, though she can get legs on land, she can't stay longer enough to have a normal relationship with Tatsuya since her body is a corpse, and without water, it will rot, also, even if Tatsuya does ever love her back, her sisters remind her he's just another human from which they'll get psyque. This problem was discused in-universe by two of Sheila's sisters; it was Played for Drama but in a very hilarious way.
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Mermaid Problem / int_74a4c704	comment	In Kingdom Hearts, Sora turns into a half dolphin, which actually averts this, since cetaceans have mammal genitalia. So any porn fanfics involving Sora as a merdolphin and a human are actually correct.
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Mermaid Problem / int_754dc5c1	type	Mermaid Problem
Mermaid Problem / int_754dc5c1	comment	Nipsey Russell once commented in rhyme on an episode of The Hollywood Squares, "I like mermaids/I don't know why./Not enough woman to make love to,/not enough fish to fry!" The screwed-up scansion of that third line implies it's a Bowdlerised version...
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Mermaid Problem / int_7884c10d	comment	Mermaids in borderline porn comic Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose get around the issue by having human-style crotches. Not genitals; crotches. As in, human-like hips and legs that merge together into a fish tail somewhere around the knee. The result can be ... disturbing.◊ Especially when they wear panties that they have no earthly way to put on or take off.
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Mermaid Problem / int_788767ba	type	Mermaid Problem
Mermaid Problem / int_788767ba	comment	Meanwhile, in Incarnations of Immortality, a mermaid states that "My scales are only external; I am mammalian inside." The mermaid in question is a Half-Human Hybrid born from a wizard's curse that made her father see human women as fish and fish as human women.
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Mermaid Problem / int_7f98d337	comment	In Darwin Carmichael Is Going to Hell Pat tries hitting on a mermaid at a party, only to be horrified when he wakes up the next morning next to a reverse mermaid.
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Mermaid Problem / int_7fcbd3e	comment	The Problem must've somehow been averted in the Mystara Dungeons & Dragons setting, in which the queen of Aquas is a Half-Human Hybrid of human and merfolk. Shapechanging magic by one or the other parent is implied to have been involved.
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Mermaid Problem / int_83d41855	comment	In Gargoyles, Goliath of the titular gargoyles has the same problem as the Sirens of Greek mythology mentioned above if he ever pursues his romance with Elisa further. Gargoyles are mammalian, but they reproduce by laying eggs, meaning they're monotremes. Monotreme reproductive parts are mostly like avian parts, which would make Elisa and Goliath's prospective wedding night rather problematic.
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Mermaid Problem / int_8859285f	type	Mermaid Problem
Mermaid Problem / int_8859285f	comment	Castles & Crusades resolves the problem by giving mermaids mostly human legs and butts, except, with scales and fishy-fins starting on the upper thighs.
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Mermaid Problem / int_8ce43a4a	comment	Barbie in a Mermaid Tale has Barbie's character Merliah be the half-mermaid offspring of mer-queen Calissa. It takes us two movies to figure out how exactly this is possible: a magic necklace that turns her into a mermaid whenever she wishes it (which is also shown to work on fully-human Kylie).
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Mermaid Problem / int_90b916ba	comment	In the Batman: The Animated Series episode "The Laughing Fish", the Joker seems to be flirting with Harley Quinn by asking her to "be [his] little mermaid". He then puts a giant fake fish head over her head, to which Harley responds, "You're really sick, you know that, boss?"
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Mermaid Problem / int_944191c6	comment	The Kyo Kara Maoh! manga has a brief episode of this - Yuuri, Conrart, and Wolfram have a conversation about a past love of Conrart's. After a minute, Yuuri thinks they're talking about a mermaid. Turns out it's a maidmer, a reverse mermaid. Yuuri remarks that Conrart's strike range is wider than he thought...
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Mermaid Problem / int_954c4ab0	comment	Absit Omen, a Harry Potter roleplay site, uses the explanation of 'merman spawn and witch magic' as the parentage of a mermaid half-breed girl who looks like a permanent Gillyweed user.
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Mermaid Problem / int_95fcf890	comment	In the third game of The Spellcasting Series by Steve Meretzky, the player character is required at one point to turn himself into a merman, and the opportunity for sex with a mermaid arises. The game states that the PC is interested to learn how mer-people do 'it' with no apparent genitals, but will reveal only two facts about the act to the player; Firstly, that it would be impossible without the buoyancy effects of water, and secondly, that it ranks above human sex on the pleasure scale to the same extent that human sex ranks above brushing your teeth.
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Mermaid Problem / int_98e97d56	type	Mermaid Problem
Mermaid Problem / int_98e97d56	comment	Rune Factory 3 averts this with Pia. Like other half-monsters in this series, she can shapeshift between fully human and monster form. You usually only see her as a mermaid when it's raining.
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Mermaid Problem / int_996b0261	type	Mermaid Problem
Mermaid Problem / int_996b0261	comment	Splash used the aforementioned Hand Wave: Madison only had a tail while exposed to water.
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Mermaid Problem / int_9a0cb5f4	type	Mermaid Problem
Mermaid Problem / int_9a0cb5f4	comment	In Bob's Burgers, Cloudcuckoolander Tina mentions wanting to find mermaids' "mer-ginas" in a total non-sequitur on being told they're going to take sailing lessons.
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Mermaid Problem / int_9ab0076a	comment	Dragon's Crown, being that kind of game, averts this. The mermaid you come across has her fish tail start right under a very human butt and hips. This was handily lampshaded when the Best Friends Zaibatsu played the game.
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Mermaid Problem / int_9c511909	comment	In line with its slightly raunchy sense of humor, in Alluna and Brie, after the first mermaid strikers match Alluna points out that mermaids have nipples and navels, meaning they give birth to live young. However, they don't have genitals or, more disturbingly to Brie, butts.
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Mermaid Problem / int_9c71d1a4	comment	In the second book of The Princess Series, Lirea and Gustan prove that it's possible for the two species to have sex, although Lirea, being a royal, has two tails instead of the usual single one. At one point, Snow starts to wonder out loud about how merpeople have sex, but is cut off by Talia.
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Mermaid Problem / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: When a mermaid turns 30, their tail splits into a pair of legs and they can walk on land (This doesn't seem to be the case with mermen, as shown with the old King Neptune). The character Kokoro is actually a mermaid past 30, who married and had children with a human. Later, Brook imagines what mermaid panties look like, until he is told that mermaids don't wear panties. Luffy meanwhile asks repeatedly about the rarely acknowledged other mermaid problem. In an SBS, Oda answers the question by starting to say something about scales opening...and then Sanji beats him up in disgust.
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Mermaid Problem / int_9f89a5f0	comment	Partially averted in PokÃ©mon: several Pokemon in the Water 2 Egg Group, made up of fish-like creatures, are also in other Egg Groups like Dragon (dragons and other reptiles), Field (mostly mammals), and Water 1 (mostly amphibians and creatures living near the water), and thus can do it with other Pokemon in those groups.
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Mermaid Problem / int_a183d57f	comment	Shows up in the Futurama episode "The Deep South" when Fry falls in love with the mermaid Umbriel. He eventually decides to stay and spend the rest of his life with her... until they try to have sex, and she explains that merfolk do it "fish-style":
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Mermaid Problem / int_a5b7bb52	comment	In the Tales From the Internet video about the website selling supermodels' eggs, Whang says that to breed with The Little Mermaid you'd have to jiz over eggs she's laid because that's how fish work.
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Mermaid Problem / int_a606596a	comment	Chrono Cross never really explains just how the human Fargo and the mermaid demi-human Zelbess not only had a relationship, but managed to have two kids!
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Mermaid Problem / int_a7963b76	comment	Trigonometry: Discussed by Moira as she's getting made up as a mermaid with Lois, saying it makes no sense how mermaids and humans could have sex. Lois replies that she's overanalyzing fantasy.
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Mermaid Problem / int_a825da3e	comment	Magic: The Gathering avoids this and the associated problems (like how mermaid PCs are supposed to do anything on land) via the expedient method of simply having its merfolk be humanoid Fish People with legs and â€” presumably â€” all the necessary equipment.
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Mermaid Problem / int_a9b8d90c	comment	When Anais of Curvy wants to get busy with merman Johnathan, they get around the problem, courtesy of Johnathan strapping a peg-leg to himself a stand in...man part.
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Mermaid Problem / int_ae050a9f	comment	In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, at one point Link gets accidentally engaged to Ruto, Princess of the Zoras, a mermaid-like aquatic race. Despite being seemingly naked, neither Ruto nor any of the other Zoras have any visible genitals (though she does have Non-Mammal Mammaries). Even weirder, Majora's Mask shows that female Zora (or at least the ones in Termina) lay eggs, raising the question as to whether they would be biologically compatible with a Hylian even if they can have sex.
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Mermaid Problem / int_b0329377	type	Mermaid Problem
Mermaid Problem / int_b0329377	comment	In an episode of The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, Mario was rescued by a mermaid named Holly Mackerel, who fell in love with him. Complicating matters was the fact that she was a reverse mermaid, and that she saw him in his frog suit which made her think he was a frog.
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Mermaid Problem / int_b0afb458	comment	In Siren's Lament, the Sirens' tails turn to legs on dry land.
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Mermaid Problem / int_b0fc9724	comment	A 2001 Saturday Night Live sketch featured Reese Witherspoon as a mermaid singing about her mucus-lubricated fish genitalia. She reveals that her dad is a human and her mother is a fish.
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Mermaid Problem / int_b3bc8ded	comment	The sea people in The Moon and the Sun are aquatic humanoid mammals (and, apart from their aquatic adaptations, have a lot of anatomical similarity to humans), not hybrid creatures. They have two "tails" (actually hind limbs adapted for swimming) and human-like genitalia. (In fact, Sherzad shocks a 17th-century human crowd by flashing them at one point.)
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Mermaid Problem / int_b486bc63	comment	Eight Worlds: In The Golden Globe, a theatrical director in the far future complains about the difficulty of finding actresses willing to give up sex in order to play mermaids; it seems far future labor laws have replaced CGI with Magic Plastic Surgery. One character in The Ophiuchi Hotline is a spacer who has used Magic Plastic Surgery to modify her body until she's little more than a cylinder with an arm on each end. The protagonist gives her credit for coming up with a very creative solution for the question of where a crotchless woman would keep her genitals, but it's (perhaps wisely) not specified what that solution was.
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Mermaid Problem / int_b6a1aaa6	comment	By the Sea: Obi-Wan (human) and Cody (merman) avoid the issue altogether with anal and oral sex, where Obi-Wan is the receptive partner, plus handjobs. Cody actually has a cloaca, but he narrates that it won't stretch well enough to permit penetrative sex.
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Mermaid Problem / int_b9c617af	comment	Dagon averted this via tentacles and large amounts of Squick.
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Mermaid Problem / int_bb5cd713	comment	Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch does turn its mermaids human on land...but in the manga, once Kaito gets his memories back, guess what's the first thing he and Lucia do. Underwater. Since it's a Shoujo series, it's all offscreen, of course, and the problem is never mentioned.
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Mermaid Problem / int_bf0710c5	comment	Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides solves this by making the mermaids' tails turn to legs when removed from water, much like in Splash.
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Mermaid Problem / int_c101f24e	comment	Invoked in, of course, Accidental Centaurs. The heroes are turned into merfolk in order to cross the sea and when Alex says he's looking forward to weeks of kinky mermaid sex Sam asks him if he remembers exactly how fish mate. Cue the disappointed Alex.
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Mermaid Problem / int_c1b44782	comment	Somewhere in Aquaman volume 3, officials in a city of mermaids complain about outsiders "swimming over their eggs."
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Mermaid Problem / int_c43df4d8	comment	A less prurient version is implied in the Doctor Who Eighth Doctor Adventures novel The Blue Angel. The mother of an alternate version of the Doctor is a mermaid, and it's implied that he wasn't hatched from an egg. Also, he mentions an ex-boyfriend of hers, and that he's the seventh son of a seventh son.
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Mermaid Problem / int_c501b586	comment	Fritz Leiber, in his short story "Under the Thumbs of the Gods", describes mermaids thus:
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Mermaid Problem / int_c9777ec1	comment	The Night Gallery episode "Lindemann's Catch" explores this with tragic results. The hardassed Captain Lindemann has netted a mermaid in his latest catch, falls in love with her, and is faced with the usual problems (though in this case it's more about how to keep her alive out of water). A frequently abused crewman offers a magic potion to remedy this, but Lindemann should have kept the "frequently abused" part in mind... it gives her human legs, but a fish's head.
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Mermaid Problem / int_cb243a75	comment	Craig Charles' little-known sitcom Captain Butler also parodied this. He asks the mermaid girl-of-his-dreams to have sex with him — so she lays a pile of eggs and leaves him to inseminate them. Not exactly what he had in mind...
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Mermaid Problem / int_cf6f9a97	comment	In Milo Manara's City Hunter (not to be confused with City Hunter), there's a scene where Odysseus and his friends go off to catch some mermaids. He ends up with the traditional one, and his friend gets her ugly friend, with the parts mixed.
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Mermaid Problem / int_d3c4b794	comment	While the problem is never actually mentioned, My Bride is a Mermaid avoids it in that mermaids can take human form. Younger mermaids do revert if they get wet, but it's implied that they grow out of that.
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Mermaid Problem / int_d4f9ccf	comment	In the X-rated comic Jasmine vs Little Mermaid Ariel, Ariel gets out of the water and her tail turns into legs. She and Princess Jasmine then go on to have lesbian sex.
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Mermaid Problem / int_d576b195	comment	In the French cartoon Zig & Sharko, Marina's parents are revealed to be a mermaid and a human sailor. Subverted in that this trope isn't called attention to, partly because every episode is a No-Dialogue Episode.
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Mermaid Problem / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	The PokÃ©mon: The Series fic "The Tomboyish Mermaid" has Ash and Misty reunite during a shipwreck where Ash learns that Misty is naturally a mermaid who can assume human form, but when the two have sex underwater Ash is guided to the relevant part of Misty.
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Mermaid Problem / int_d76bae2a	comment	In Cracked After Hours this is brought up by Michael for a reason that, long-term, a relationship between Eric and Ariel will fall apart. He mentions the Futurama take on the problem; when they need to make royal heirs, Ariel is just expecting to lay a clutch of eggs in a bathtub and let Eric fertilize them and will inevitably be disgusted at the idea of human intercourse.
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Mermaid Problem / int_d7b46d48	comment	The infamous Poxy Boggards sing about this in the rather explicit song, "Nelly the Mermaid"
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Mermaid Problem / int_dc85cde0	comment	In the a non-canon side story to Coby's Choice, Nami, in order to scratch off an item on her "Extended Honeymoon Bucket List" actually initiates a threesome between her, Camie and Luffy. It's revealed that like the Dragon's Crown example, mermaid tails begin below the buttocks and groin area, and that the "skin" that goes to their waist are actually a clothing called mertights made to cover the genitalia.
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Mermaid Problem / int_dca06c7f	comment	In Tales of MU, Feejee and Iona, the two mermaid characters, can shapeshift between a fish-tailed form and human legs. This is played straight by Feejee having a human boyfriend, and subverted by the mermaids revealing that humans are a delicacy and Feejee repeatedly mock-eating the main character while emphatically denying that she is gay.
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Mermaid Problem / int_df432991	comment	A similar issue arises with a lamia (a snake-tailed woman) rather than a mermaid in Ironwood. She reveals that there is a specific split scale that gives access to (presumably) human compatible genitals.
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Mermaid Problem / int_df7e11cd	comment	Avoided by Manly Guys Doing Manly Things: turns out there's a reason manatees and mermaids are mixed up so often. Jared's disturbed that anybody would want to tap that.
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Mermaid Problem / int_e10d2c9	type	Mermaid Problem
Mermaid Problem / int_e10d2c9	comment	Queens of Mewni: Word of God says one night, Polaria ruined Adrian's mermaid fantasy by demonstrating this trope (she had the ability to turn into a mermaid).
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Mermaid Problem / int_e49abee7	comment	Discussed in an episode of Code Monkeys, where Dave puts an Easter egg into his latest game where you can do the deed with a mermaid. Jerry asks the obvious question, and Dave's response is "Uh, you do her on her flipper."
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Mermaid Problem / int_e500f417	type	Mermaid Problem
Mermaid Problem / int_e500f417	comment	In Harvest Moon DS, there's a cutesy mermaid named Leia whom you can marry. She never gains human legs, and manages to get pregnant despite living in your duck pond and being unable to leave the water for extended periods of time. Also, the pregnancy resembles that of a human, even though she's part fish. The child is normal enough, but still, It's best not to think about any of this for too long. The Distaff Counterpart of DS, Cute, averts this if you 'best friend' Leia. Since two girls can't biologically have children, the Harvest King makes one of you pregnant (or was it the baby just being born?). You can choose to be the pregnant one, thus averting this.
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Mermaid Problem / int_e75c6d45	type	Mermaid Problem
Mermaid Problem / int_e75c6d45	comment	Yuan-tis in Goblins mate similarly to snakes, but Dellyn somehow found a way to rape one. It's still uncertain how this works, but it's since become clear that they can also engage in consensual sex with humans (although the only couple portrayed thus far was from an alternate universe.) It's definitely worth noting that unlike the vast majority of fish, all snakes engage in internal fertilization. Male snakes have a twin organ, and though the internal biology is somewhat different, they still engage in "insert tab A in slot B" sex.
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Mermaid Problem / int_e7a27429	type	Mermaid Problem
Mermaid Problem / int_e7a27429	comment	The Bridge uses the transformation clause. Mermares are a female-only species that presumably have the proper arrangement as they are dolphin-like instead of fish-like, but when they have "shore leave" to conceive children via shapeshifting into a land form and take a disguise.
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Mermaid Problem / int_e8af156	type	Mermaid Problem
Mermaid Problem / int_e8af156	comment	In Jennifer's Body, Megan Fox discusses this trope in reference to the movie Aquamarine, describing it as "about a girl who's, like, half sushi" and speculating that the mermaid must have "sex through her blowhole or something."
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Mermaid Problem / int_ea4f62db	type	Mermaid Problem
Mermaid Problem / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: Invoked when Lois is rescued by a reverse merman. She declines his invitation to have sex with him as his upper half is too repulsive. When she explains she'd rather he be a regular merman, he replies that then he wouldn't have a penis. When she can't answer how she would have sex with him in that case, he tries to force himself on her. She pushes him over and walks away while he flops around like a normal fish. In a cutaway gag in "Partial Terms of Endearment", Peter tries to have sex with a mermaid with mixed success.
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Mermaid Problem / int_eb66924	comment	In The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey, this is the point. Aycayia was cursed to be a mermaid by the women of her village, and the fact she can't have sex is very much part of it.
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Mermaid Problem / int_efcb2e99	type	Mermaid Problem
Mermaid Problem / int_efcb2e99	comment	Books of Adam: In "The Facts of Life," a young mermaid (who resembles Ariel) asks her father (who resembles Triton) where babies come from. His answer is very fishlike: her mother laid thousands of eggs, most were eaten, and she was one of the few who survived.
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Mermaid Problem / int_f0a86c12	type	Mermaid Problem
Mermaid Problem / int_f0a86c12	comment	On How I Met Your Mother, Marshall asks Barney if he'd make out with a classic mermaid or an inverted mermaid. Barney answers, "That depends. Is she fat?" Marshall responds that since she's part fish, it's the good kind of fat.
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Mermaid Problem / int_f163bd9f	type	Mermaid Problem
Mermaid Problem / int_f163bd9f	comment	ElfQuest: Some of the Wavedancers are merfolk, with fish-like lower bodies. It's left unexplained if they can reproduce or have sex with those of human-like lower halves, and if so how.
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Mermaid Problem / int_fa5c1b11	type	Mermaid Problem
Mermaid Problem / int_fa5c1b11	comment	The mermaids in the River of Dancing Gods series are 100% mammal (more half-dolphin than half-fish), and when a male character gets involved with one it's explicitly mentioned that their bits are human-compatible.
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Mermaid Problem / int_fbd4564f	type	Mermaid Problem
Mermaid Problem / int_fbd4564f	comment	Addressed with Lin, a lamia (bottom half snake instead of fish), in WIEDERGEBURT: Legend of the Reincarnated Warrior. Her genitals are located just above where her human half's skin transitions to scales; she usually wears a sarong over them.
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Mermaid Problem / int_fc1d6ac6	type	Mermaid Problem
Mermaid Problem / int_fc1d6ac6	comment	A Little Sacrifice short story from The Witcher series (published in Sword of Destiny) deconstructs The Little Mermaid. The merfolk reproduce like fishes and their ways of life are completely alien to land dwellers. In addition the prince and the mermaid don't speak each other's languages and need Geralt as a translator. The solution is simple, but drastic: the mermaid becomes human, sacrificing her familiar way of life. "I love him too, and I want to raise fry with him, but how can I do that if he refuses to become a fish like me? Where, then, am I supposed to leave my spawn, huh? In his hat?"
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Mermaid Problem / int_fd3f592	type	Mermaid Problem
Mermaid Problem / int_fd3f592	comment	American Pie has two of the girls-obsessed teenage characters mention the issue. "Did you see The Little Mermaid (1989) on TV yesterday? Ariel, she's so hot." "She's a mermaid, dude." "Yeah, but not when she's on land, Oz."
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Mermaid Problem	processingCategory2	Mer Tropes
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Red Ears (Comic Book) / int_9c88cfb	type	Mermaid Problem
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Splash / int_9c88cfb	type	Mermaid Problem
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The Shape of Water / int_9c88cfb	type	Mermaid Problem
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Eight Worlds / int_9c88cfb	type	Mermaid Problem
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Mermaid's Song / int_9c88cfb	type	Mermaid Problem
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The Syrena Legacy / int_9c88cfb	type	Mermaid Problem
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Oglaf (Webcomic) / int_9c88cfb	type	Mermaid Problem
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The Dating Guy / int_9c88cfb	type	Mermaid Problem

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