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Male elves are often portrayed as feminine or androgynous, in range from Pretty Boy or Bishōnen to Ambiguously Gay. This is often used to cause dumbfounded confusion on reveal. Occasionally, elves of both genders will be portrayed as androgynous, but usually the male androgyny is part of a broader tendency to portray all elves as particularly feminine, making the female elves anything but androgynous. The "no facial hair" clause helps, but it's only a little part of the image — other beardless peoples are immune to this even while wearing braids and beads and being among the prototypes for elves. One of the probable reasons why feminine qualities of elves are played up is the intentional contrast between Elves and their traditional opposites, dwarves, who are basically hypermasculine: stout, muscular, hairy, axe-swinging drunks (which depending on the portrayal may apply to female dwarves as well, if they even have them). Remember that elves and dwarves contrast along several lines: Slobs Versus Snobs, Harmony Versus Discipline, Romanticism Versus Enlightenment, and especially nature versus technology. Thus it makes sense that races that fit so well into the Mother Nature, Father Science trope would even match the trope's gender implications: elves are feminine because nature is feminine, and all dwarves masculine because technology is masculine. This dichotomy also helps the both of them contrast against the mundane humans, who fit quite neatly between the two on all of these spectrums, including gender expression. This is a Sub-Trope of Alien Gender Confusion. |
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Heralds of Valdemar doesn't have elves per se, but the Hawkbrothers are quite similar - Long-Lived and maintaining a youthful appearance into late middle age, heavily associated with nature, very magical, having ties back to the setting's ancient and otherwise forgotten history, living largely isolated from the rest of the world in ludicrously beautiful Hidden Elf Villages and generally being isolationist, and tending towards androgyny. Some of this is because they don't see long hair, elaborate clothing, or really anything else as gendered, but they virtually all have pretty, feminine faces. In Winds of Change an outsider, Princess Elspeth of Valdemar, notes this and that the women all seem to be tall and broad-shouldered. When Darkwind shares fancy clothing from his own wardrobe with Elspeth it fits her quite well with little need for alteration. She's the swordfighting kind of princess rather than Princess Classic, suggesting that the highly physically active Darkwind isn't a waif. | |
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Dragon Age: Bisexual elf Zevran from Dragon Age: Origins mentions this as the reason he and other elves were chosen as assassins. Most humans found them pleasing to look at, which increased the chances they'd be successful in their jobs. Zevran himself is a prime example of this trope at work - drunken dwarf Oghren even comments that Zevran's got "small breasts for a gal". Similarly, Fenris of Dragon Age II. He's more masculine than some examples, but between the lean elven body model and pretty face, he hits the Pretty Boy mark. It's even lampshaded by Hawke's uncle Gamlen if a male Hawke romances Fenris. The character creator in Dragon Age: Inquisition. It is entirely possible to make a male elf with an extremely feminine face. Though due to the limited choice of two voice actors, the main difference of which is accents, your Elfeminate Male Inquisitor will still have a male-sounding voice. Averted for male Ancient Elves like Abelas or Solas. They have much more definitive masculine facial, skeletal, and muscular characteristics. This is because it turns out they are ancient elves from before the Fall of Elvhanan and the entire race becoming a Slave Race. |
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The two principal characters of the Nightrunner books are Aurenfaie. Both are repeatedly described as pretty, and Seregil disguises himself as a woman without much difficulty. | |
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A Destructive God Sits Next To Me: Basically all the boys, but especially Koyuki, and the self-proclaimed demon in the next seat. | |
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The Hobbit: Thranduil is arguably the most androgynous-looking male Elf in the franchise, even more so than his son Legolas. While they both share long, platinum blond hair, bright blue eyes, dainty facial features and a slender build, Thranduil has long, thick eyelashes◊ (which almost looks like he's wearing mascara) and a long neck, plus his ostentatious manner of dress (in contrast to his son's plainer style) give the Elvenking a more feminine appearance.◊ | |
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Star Trek: Picard: Romulans (and Vulcans) are Space Elves, and Elnor is the most elf-like and androgynous of any male Romulan or Vulcan character in the franchise. In addition to being a tall, slim, Long-Haired Pretty Boy with a graceful bearing, he grew up in all-female sect note its monastery is located in a forest which looks like Rivendell, and the locals belittle him as a "sisterboy." Various media outlets (this is just one example among many) have compared Elnor to Legolas. | |
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Tales from Somewhere: Nandiel, the elf in the party, is mistaken for a woman during their introduction. | |
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The character creator in Dragon Age: Inquisition. It is entirely possible to make a male elf with an extremely feminine face. Though due to the limited choice of two voice actors, the main difference of which is accents, your Elfeminate Male Inquisitor will still have a male-sounding voice. | |
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Pillars of Eternity: Aloth the elven wizard fits this trope, having a slim build, smooth face, long hair, and refined tastes. This gets him teased by some more manly companions, especially Durance. Ironically, Aloth has a Literal Split Personality who is a woman. Double-ironically, she's even more manly than him. | |
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While not all Elezen in Final Fantasy XIV are feminine in appearance, Alphinaud deserves a special mention for the fact that he looks almost identical to his twin sister Alisae, not helped by the fact that they (Initially) wear virtually identical outfits, as well. This is lampshaded in the Flavor Text for the Wind-up Alisae minion, which states that they're simply Wind-up Alphinaud that were rebranded after changing the color of their hairbands and nothing else. | |
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Blood elves and high elves (but not night elves) in World of Warcraft. Joked about at length, including the blood elf male flirt, "don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like me?", and Johnny Awesome being mistaken for a girl and called "Jenny" by a character in Hillsbrad. To be fair, though, this is a Downplayed Trope, as male blood elves only look effeminate in comparison to the other mostly hypermasculine males in the game, especially their allies in the Horde. They were more so in the beta for Burning Crusade. One of the quests from the Cataclysm expansion involves playing through a tale from an orc who describes how he supposedly chased Deathwing on his motorcycle while driving around with a "hot babe." You get to choose which one of those hot babes gets to hop into his sidecar for the chase and one of them happens to be a male blood elf. The Legion expansion adds the Nightborne, a faction of elves who hid from the Sundering by isolating themselves from the rest of the world with a protective magical shield. Dark-skinned and white-haired like the drow elves, the males can often be hard to tell apart from the females. Many players have argued whether the Nighthold raid boss Star Augur Etraeus is a male or female. |
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The Order of the Stick. The creator eventually realized that fans couldn't tell the gender of the team's elf character, Vaarsuvius, and thus made their Ambiguous Gender a Running Gag. We later learn that Vaarsuvius has a "mate" and children who are similarly androgynous — and, since the kids are adopted, we can't even say for sure if the two are opposite sexes. The Elvish subtitles even translate the dialogue to say "Parent" and "Other Parent" instead of "Mother" and "Father." Most minor elf characters follow suit, though we know of one male half-elf, Pompey, and two female elves, Lirian and Veldrina. Around book four we started seeing a lot more elves in minor roles and the majority are just as clearly gendered as every other race. |
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The Handbook of Heroes lists this trope as one of two reasons to avoid romance with elves. Also, after Wizard's Gender Bender, Fighter is unable to tell the difference. | |
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Used to point up the gender stereotypes in Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic: male high elves (who come from a gender-equal race) are swishy, while male drow (who come from a matriachal society) are masculine. However, male high elves are still manly enough to be jealous as all hell of a drow who "slept [his] way to this position". | |
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The Elves in Small World are depicted as overly thin, androgynous types carrying baskets of flowers. | |
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Fredrik K.T. Andersson (the author of Pawn) has a mostly-NSFW series of drawings about adventures of "the bard who knocks up every critter in creation" (though evidently was too drunk at the time to remember half of those... encounters). Elves are the only beings with whom he has some problems: he needs to be told that the beautiful elf he was flirting with is a he.◊ Also, he didn't realize for a long time that the (rather Stripperific but also flat-chested) female elf in their party is a girl.◊ | |
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Bisexual elf Zevran from Dragon Age: Origins mentions this as the reason he and other elves were chosen as assassins. Most humans found them pleasing to look at, which increased the chances they'd be successful in their jobs. Zevran himself is a prime example of this trope at work - drunken dwarf Oghren even comments that Zevran's got "small breasts for a gal". | |
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Feng Xi from The Legend of Hei, while Elfin is a general term for supernatural species in this universe, Feng Xi still qualifies for sporting Pointed Ears and waist length hair. | |
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Elven deities in Dungeons & Dragons are often noted to be "androgynous" in looks; the artist responsible for the picture of chief elf god Corellon Larethian from the Deities and Demigods sourcebook took this to its logical conclusion with a totally FABULOUS rendition◊ (two words: rainbow eyeliner). Which is justifiable, as original lore for Corellon is that they are literally gender-fluid, able to appear as masculine, feminine, androgynous, hermaphroditic, or anything else they envision — a trait that other members of the Seldarine (the elfin gods) may share, depending on edition and setting. Like most things D&D-related, this depends heavily on subrace, setting, and edition. In 4th edition, a "design preview" book on races and classes from the developers stated that they wanted to deliberately avoid this trope, going for slender and graceful but still masculine male elves. In 5th edition, a minority of elves have "Corellon's Blessing"; the ability to voluntarily shift genders at will. The somewhat ambiguously-canon Verdan, a migrant from Acquisitions Incorporated who appeared as a PC race in a 5e sourcebook, also tend to be very hard to place on the gender scale. This is because one of the more consistent side-effects of their chaos-touched heritage is a tendency to spontaneously shift genders at least once in their lifetime, which has basically caused them to give up on gender as a social construct, and also results in their genders tending to look pretty similar. |
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Baldur's Gate III: Astarion, the high elf rogue origins character, plays this trope very straight, being a white-haired Pretty Boy who's very concerned about his appearance. He even admits that he uses his good looks for seduction. Gloriously averted by Halsin the wood elf druid, who is a large muscular hunk of a man who looks like he just walked out of a cologne commercial or a romance novel's cover. He is quite possibly the least effeminate elf to ever appear in a video game. Another big aversion of Ketheric Thorm, the Arc Villain of Act II, and a half-elf general played by J. K. Simmons. Not only is he an armor-clade dread knight, but he has a very noticeable beard and a haggard, aged complexion. The fact he's even remotely elven is only apparent with his pointed ears and his unusually long life span. The player themselves is free to play this straight, avert it, or even invert it by playing hyper-masculine elven women, thanks to the robust character creator. There are four body types available, two masc-presenting and two femme-presenting (each one getting a slim-athletic physique and a larger muscular physique), but these aren't locked to gender identity, with the option to choose your pronouns, your genitalia, and your voice, allowing you to create an elf that identifies as he/him and having male genitalia, but give them a feminine body, including breasts, to take this further than normal, or you can completely invert it by playing an elf who identifies as she/her, has female genitalia, but has a large muscular body with no visible breasts, as well as anything in between. This also applies to other races besides elves, as the options exist for all the human-sized races (humans, elves, drow, half-elves, tieflings, githyanki, etc). |
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Dwarf Fortress Fan Art: "A common mistake when dealing with elves." | |
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Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do in an RPG has quite a few examples: | |
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In DM of the Rings, Aragorn in particular seems to look at any Elf and think it's a woman, even when they're male. For the most part however he just plays it up to annoy Legolas' (a.k.a. Leggo Lass) player. Even invoked when he's trying to get laid with Éowyn, but the DM doesn't want to because he's having to play her: | |
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The two commentators Jim the Vampire and Bob the Ogre in the Cyanide adaption of Blood Bowl: Jim mocks Pro-Elf teams by pointing out that if he didn't know better he could have confused them for an Amazon team. Bob replies that this is silly since he's never heard of anyone fearing an elf. | |
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In Wyrd Sisters an actor who plays a girl too well was asked whether he by chance has some elf up in the bloodline. | |
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In The Dragon Prince, Aaravos invoked Viewer Gender Confusion for some fans—that is, until he spoke. All the male elves seem to be Long Haired Pretty Boys. | |
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In The Elder Scrolls, Nords hate the races of Mer and see their reliance on fancy weapons and magic in battle as effete and unmanly. | |
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Alfie (2010): Ailduin, to the point Vera is certain he's gay once she figures out he's male. She's rather surprised to learn that he's not (or at least, not at the moment; elf lifespans are so long that they eventually end up everywhere on the Kinsey scale at some point or another). | |
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You wouldn't know that Oberon from The Ancient Magus' Bride was a man until you hear him referred to as the fairy king. | |
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In Acquisitions Incorporated, the group makes the occasional joke revolving around this trope mentioning how Aeofel is fey, how they have a "don't ask don't tell" policy, or how Aeofel is a pretty boy. Wil Wheaton (Aeofel's player) for his part embraces and defends the trope. | |
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Magic: The Gathering: Averted with burly Eighth Edition Elvish Champion. Played straight with the elves of Lorwyn / Shadowmoor. Their society revolves around the virtue of beauty, and they punish transgressions with disfigurements. The other folks don't like them. |
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How Not to Summon a Demon Lord: Upon being ambushed by elves, Takuma assumes that they're all flat-chested women until he notices that one of them has an adam's apple. | |
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Critical Role implies this is a case with Half-Identical Twins Half-Elf siblings Vax and Vex through official art and a bit where when asked what his sister looks like, Vax just pointed at himself. | |
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The Eldar in Warhammer 40,000 are androgynous enough that it's common for humans to have difficulty determining their gender. This is particularly evident with the Aspect Warriors, who discard their identities to embody a particular character representing an aspect of war. Several of these Aspects are distinctly masculine or feminine in costume, but all will accept both male and female Eldar - a Howling Banshee, for instance, is a feminine Aspect wearing armour with Hartman Hips and an impressive Breast Plate, and that remains the case regardless of the gender of the person portraying the role. | |
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El Goonish Shive poked fun at this too. Subverted later when Justin admits he likes his men manly. | |
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Drowtales: Played with, where it's averted and seemingly exaggerated at once. The male Drow are masculine, larger than humans, and typically fairly attractive. They seem somewhat effeminate when compared to the Drow ladies, however, who are typically larger and stronger than the males, although still blatantly feminine. | |
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Elves in Delicious in Dungeon are almost perfectly androgynous, but this doesn’t cause any problems for anyone except the reader. A number of important characters, including the Big Bad, had to be regarded in English with Ambiguous Gender (leading to mistakes such as the official translation calling that Big Bad female) until someone finally used an unambiguously gendered pronoun to refer to them, often many chapters later. This is highlighted in a one-page Gender-Bent Alternate Universe omake the author drew, in which everyone saw significant changes to their face shape and hairstyles except the elf Marcille, who looked exactly the same, and in a sketch of the Canaries (an all-elf squad) with swapped genders, with the only differences being a previously shirtless male now wears a short crop-top, and the female members now have flat chests. | |
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The Breezies from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, which are basically pony fairies, all look incredibly feminine. Just try and guess which one of these is male.◊note Seabreeze, the one on the right. The rest are anybody's guess.note The main indicator seems to be eye shape, males have round eyes and females more angular ones. This can get hard to keep track of when they're moving or in the background. | |
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The fantasy spinoff for Grave Robbers from Outer Space has a character known as "The Way Too Pretty Elf." Technically the character is male, but is so effeminate that cards that can normally only be used on ladies can also be used on him. | |
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The elven men of Herezar in The First Dwarf King look only slightly more masculine than their female counterparts. | |
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Averted in Dubious Company, the sex of the elves in the series are easily distinguishable, except for Elly. He is mistaken as a girl at least once by everyone, and consistently by Marty. Tiren cursing him didn't help matters either. | |
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She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: Double Trouble, in their Shapeshifter Default Form, is a very pretty, androgynous reptile person who looks somewhere between a chameleon and a blood elf. Admittedly, they're nonbinary rather than male; it remains that they're also not female. | |
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Elves in Quantum Gravity tend to be thin and delicate-looking. Do not mistake this for weak. Elves still fulfill the archer archetype fairly often, and the author does recognize how much strength it takes to draw a decent-to-large-sized bow. | |
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Leaf from MySims is a male rockstar elf with a single pierced ear and refuses to ever have facial hair of any kind. | |
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Tales of MU subverts this in the case of half-elf Steff, who is genderqueer and presents female. To humans and most other non-elves, she comes off as beautiful and feminine. To elves, she looks awkwardly masculine, like a bad drag queen. | |
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Elves in The Obsidian Trilogy look, to humans not used to them, like a race of identical twins. Even when humans are more accustomed and can identify ones they know and make a reasonably accurate stab at their genders, elderly elves are even more androgynous. They also seem to have the least care for strict gender roles of any of the Races of the Light, being the only one that trains women for warfare, who of course wear the same kinds of clothing and armor in the field as men do. | |
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Similarly, Fenris of Dragon Age II. He's more masculine than some examples, but between the lean elven body model and pretty face, he hits the Pretty Boy mark. It's even lampshaded by Hawke's uncle Gamlen if a male Hawke romances Fenris. | |
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More-or-less averted in Rift: Although smooth-faced and clearly intended to be attractive (even if Kelari are a bit eerie-looking), elven men are too sinewy and rawboned to be called Pretty Boys. | |
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Tera: High Elf males are Bishounen to the point of looking girly, just without breasts. | |
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Looking for Group: Done very specifically with Cale, but, in an aversion, not with elves as a whole. Note, that this is barely apparent to the readers, if at all. | |
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Elon and Rolan of Ears for Elves are both somewhat feminine, in particular in hairstyle. One has girlish bangs and ponytail, while the other has narrow braids in his long hair and multiple earrings. Tanna also asks whether someone calling "princess" is referring to Elon, much to his annoyance. | |
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Elves in Majesty are androgynous-looking, tend to have Gender Blender Names, and have voices somewhere between tenor and contralto. | |
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A source of many jokes in Martin Pearson's musical The Lord of the Rings parody, The Unfinished Spelling Errors of Bolkien. | |
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Drawn Together's Xandir looks like an elfnote Though he's actually based on Link, who's not, and is also Camp Gay. Given the nature of the show, where EVERYONE is an fair game to mock. | |
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Dexter's Laboratory features a parody of evil anime Bishōnen (and Char), in the form of a literal space elf who looks, dresses, and poses like a woman... and sounds like Bela Lugosi. | |
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In A.R.R.R. Roberts' parody of The Hobbit, The Soddit, Wood Elves and High Elves become Wild Elves and Coward Elves. The accompanying illustration makes it clear that the Wild Elves are based on Oscar Wilde, and the Coward Elves on Noël Coward. | |
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