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The world has just been rocked by a near-Gendercide. Nearly the entire male or female population has been killed by The Virus or something similar. Alternatively, a particular people would be a One-Gender Race were it not for the occasional exception of a male/female being born. Occasionally it won't be a scarcity individuals from one gender so much as a scarcity of fertile individuals, which for most intents and purposes amounts to much the same thing (see also Only You Can Repopulate My Race). Though it does make it harder to tell which individuals are reproductively useful. When any of these happen, the rarity of the surviving gender will leave them to one of at least two fates. The rare gender will attain high status (perhaps even virtual godhood) and wield great political power because they're the only ones with the "wherewithal" to keep the species viable. The rare gender will lose all status (perhaps even virtual slavery) because they're extremely valuable breeding stock that has to be possessed and protected if you want to keep the species going. Note that the former is more likely in limited-fertility scenarios and a Lady Land or No Woman's Land is almost inevitable in the latter. And let's not forget the Double Standard Rape: Female on Male factor. While there are other possibilities and variations between these two extremes, these are the two most commonly encountered. |
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In Xenophilia, stallions only make up a quarter of the population, which has traditionally led to their being coddled, pampered, and denied any real position of social importance or power; even the more enlightened present is still essentially a gender-flipped late 1950s/early 1960s, and the fact pony mares have a biological instinct to protect stallions that basically causes them to fly into protective fury if one is endangered ensures that Equestria will always be something of a "rare gender worshipped" version of this trope mixed with a Lady Land. | |
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The Invitation (2022): Evie turns out to be highly valued because in the Alexander family, her white aristocratic English relatives, she's the only woman. Deville habitually marries one woman of their family along with two others which serve him, and so he's intent on her being his bride as well. They're willing to overlook Evie having biracial ancestry, although not all are pleased by it. | |
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Malevil plays with this trope quite a bit. The worshiped variety at Malevil castle. Miette is flat out told that she will not be the property of six men and is given free reign to choose a husband. In response, she Takes a Third Option and starts a Polyamory relationship. Everyone treats her with the utmost kindness and respect, except La Menou. Her sister Catie and Angès are treated the same when they arrive later. The enslaved variety comes to rule La Roque after Vilmain's army captures the city. Fulbert barely kept his men from being rapists, it's a reward for Vilmain's veteran troops. |
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Laura of Collar 6 came from the island of Sybion, which has several thousand women and about fifty men. Religious texts decree that the men are descended from gods and are to be worshiped as such. Upon coming of age, women become part of a man's harem, with the ultimate intent to bear a male child. | |
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The Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Cogenitor" features a species who have three genders — the third gender doesn't pass on any genetic material, but their involvement is still necessary for the male and female to successfully reproduce. The "cogenitors" are treated in a manner not befitting pet hamsters — they aren't even given names, let alone education or freedom (the cogenitors make up less than 3% of the population, setting themselves into this trope nicely). | |
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In the House fanfiction series Gone With The World, there are absolutely no females, and blue-eyed men are capable of becoming pregnant. With this, all blue-eyed men (House himself included) are rounded up in government sweeps, enslaved, shoved in a procession-line style facility and forced into sex with multiple Breeders and not allowed to see their children, in order to repopulate the world with females. a twist at the end of the first installation reveals that the reason why the proud mummies aren't allowed to see their offspring is that there are absolutely no female babies being born and the government don't want the secret released. | |
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A Memoir by Lady Trent: Eighty percent of Draconeans are born female, and the few males serve as priests and scribes, while the females occupy most of the labor, leadership, and warrior roles. | |
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Honor Harrington: On the planets of Grayson and Masada, women outnumber men three-to-one due to rushed genetic engineering (by people who had intended to be Space Amish, no less) to cope with Grayson's heavy-metal-rich environment, but it's the men who are in charge. This is largely due to a religious belief holding that women are incapable of bearing serious responsibility in men's areas. Grayson, at least, has become fairly chivalrous about this in recent years, whereas the Masadans are full-on He Man Woman Haters. | |
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In Alien Nation, the Newcomers have a third gender that doesn't contribute genetic material, but who are necessary to enable reproduction between males and females. This third gender makes up a small percentage of their population, and while they're not worshipped, they are held in a place of honor. One episode has the villains attempt to wipe out the Newcomers by targeting the members of the third gender, hoping to kill them all so the Newcomers won't be able to reproduce. | |
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In Ōoku: The Inner Chambers, due to the Redface Pox, women outnumber men 4:1. Because more than 75% of men die before adulthood from the endemic Redface Pox, the survivors are protected from danger and strenuous activity wherever possible, and basically don't have to do anything except breed: women didn't stop doing household chores, they just took over traditionally male work as well. However, men have also been crowded out of government (too stressful for their delicate constitutions), and few think twice about pimping out boys as young as fourteen to women seeking children. Male children are expected to provide a steady source of income to their families. Having a husband becomes extremely expensive, and most women resort to male prostitutes to have an heir. Only wealthy women can afford to buy a man's exclusivity and marry him, only the shogun is powerful enough to have a harem of men kept for her exclusive use, and only men in the ÅŒoku have any form of political pull that isn't the result of being married or a son to anyone with political power. | |
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The Outer Limits (1995): Subverted in "Lithia". Although Major Mercer is the first man alive in generations, no one either views him as god-like or potential breeding stock. In the latter case, this is despite the fact that, while they have semen samples stored for use in artificial insemination, logically this can't last forever. Two of the women do have sex with him, but that is portrayed as simply due to fascination with him. | |
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The Olympians in the Well World series are an offshoot of humanity deliberately engineered to fulfill The Dragon's harem fantasies, combining inbred female loyalty and subservience imperatives with nigh-irresistible male sexual prowess and a low male birth rate to reduce future competition. Then he gets killed. 200 years later, it's the males who are kept in communally owned harems because after his death, the women immediately decided that the best way to protect, coddle, and serve their rare and precious male children was to keep them in guarded creches and raise them to be little more than gigolos and sperm donors. | |
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In The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, men outnumber women two-to-one on Luna, and thus competition for female favour is fierce. The women are completely in charge when it comes to sex, chivalry is Serious Business, and Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male is enforced by other men. A woman on Luna can beat a man until he bleeds, but if a man so much as flirts a little too aggressively, he risks being Thrown Out the Airlock. When some Earth troops rape and kill a prostitute, the Lunar colony uses it as a pretext to start The War of Earthly Aggression early. | |
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Discworld: Female children are rare among the Nac Mac Feegle. These girls become Keldas, leaders of Nac Mac Feegle clans. The fact they're a lot smarter (and saner) than most of the men helps too. In Interesting Times, Rincewind was nearly taken in by a tribe of woman warriors who lost their menfolk to a very specific plague. Then he's summoned back to Ankh-Morpork by wizards. |
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Y: The Last Man has both extremes of this trope mentioned, if not explored. The Gendercide at the start of the series is unusually thorough, to the point that the general public went years without realizing that any men survived. The hero's journey is largely motivated by his desire not to become a slave subject to variation 2. The final epilogue implies that the baby boy born to the astronaut and cosmonaut grew up to become the ruler of Russia, making future Russia variation 1. However, once reproductive cloning was perfected, men became somewhat superfluous. | |
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In Final Fantasy XIV, the Hrothgar have a staggeringly low female populace, which makes seeing one in the open nigh unheard of. What little females are there are revered and protected, giving rise to the matriarchal culture the Hrothgar have and crowning one as their queen. The males take the name of their queen as their surname, with the A- prefix denoting their continued service, or the -sch suffix for the one they left service to, usually as a result of their passing. | |
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In World of Warcraft, female dwarf characters are rather rarely played. While they aren't really "worshipped" in any way, they happen to be treated as sort of an oddity/rarity by some playersnote For some examples, see this forum thread in the game's forums and sometimes have to be actively sought for, more so than female characters of other races (e.g. for the achievement, which requires a player to put a set of rabbit ears on female characters of every race, level 18 or higher). | |
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In Animal X, how female dinosauroids (or Yuiji, who is capable of bearing hybrid children) are treated seems to depend on the varying values of different dinosauroid cultures, the goals and morals of the various human organizations involved in dinosauroid politics, and just the values and personalities different people have. Examples of type I and II are spread out and often combined, as every female non-barren dinosauroid is expected to bear children non-stop, but most dinosauroids consider this a great honor and see polyandry as normal and expected.note A female non-fertile dinosauroid is Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life because despite being the strongest warrior in her tribe and highly respected for her skills, her inability to bear children makes her feel like a failure. It's unclear if Yuiji might be treated better if he was a pure dinosauroid and not a mutated human, or if he was capable of carrying pure dinosauroid children instead of human-dinosauroid hybrids. If nothing else, the female K-01 is literally worshipped by male dinosauroids as divine, although this might be purely the result of her psychic powers influencing their minds. | |
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In the Xena: Warrior Princess episode "Kindred Spirits", an Amazon wants to have a baby, and Joxer is the only male around. They don't have sex because Status Quo Is God. This trope also occurs in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. | |
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Penny Arcade parodies Fallout with Vault 43: 20 men, 10 women, and one panther. Presumably, the panther helped even out the gender ratio a bit — or made things worse. | |
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Not as extreme as the other examples, but in Galaxy High, there are far fewer women attending than men. When Aimee arrives, she instantly becomes popular and gets an admirer while Doyle is ignored, despite both being new and unusual students. | |
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Type 1 is explicitly invoked in the Vorkosigan Saga. When advanced reproductive technology comes to patriarchal Barayar, most people naturally use it to favor boys, but motherless, sisterless (but not brotherless, and that's a very important point) Drou Koudelka uses it to make sure all four of her children are girls. Her husband Commodore Koudelka later admits that he was only amenable to this plan after he was convinced that Gender Rarity Value would make his daughters very hot commodities in the future. Sure enough, the four sisters of "Team Koudelka" all end romantically attached to rising stars in the military, commerce, government and the sciences. | |
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A Brother's Price features a world where many more women are born than men; it's speculated to be around the rate of nine girls to every boy, but since male fetuses often miscarry and baby boys tend to die, the ratio is in fact even more skewed. This results in a society with reversed traditional gender roles: everything is run by women while men are property to be traded and protected. Also a literal Gender Rarity Value; a "Brother's Price" is how much a family gets for selling their brother. Usually, it's just a swap for another family's brother or a straight sale to a family for cash. The male ends up marrying all the women in the new family, unless they split it between older and younger sisters. However, there is also the option of selling him to a "Crib", a whorehouse where he'll spend the rest of his life drugged to the eyeballs on fantasy world viagra impregnating women who can't afford to buy a husband. There's also mention that infanticide of girl babies actually still happens in this world; male children are valuable as investments and property, whereas girls must be trained and taught to work. | |
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A partial example with Elena in The Otherworld, who is the only known female werewolf — partial because female werewolves aren't necessary to propagate the species, because Gender Equals Breed when werewolves mate with humans. She's still treated as a novelty, and many werewolves wish they could have her with them, but the pack she's with treats her as an individual. | |
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Yinglet society in Out-of-Placers appears to be a Type 2 (rare gender enslaved), as each enclave keeps their rare females closely guarded in their midst, but the protagonist soon learns that they're effectively a Type 1 society, with the females using the power of their central position and their control over breeding to effectively run things from behind the scenes. | |
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In Terre en fuite, the Tilians are a Lost Colony of humans founded by the crew of one of the ships sent to explore the galaxy after the discovery of hyperspace (they didn't know that using hyperspace turns every trip into a Blind Jump). Due to exposure to cosmic radiation, the original settlers have developed a mutation that turns the female-to-male birth ratio as 7:1. The low number of males necessitates polygamy to allow the population to grow. Being constantly at war with the neighboring Human Aliens, the Tilians have developed a Proud Warrior Race Guy culture. Strangely, despite the small number of males, only men are soldiers and have a much higher status than women (this may have something to do with the novel being written in 1960). Additionally, some men are born completely lacking in initiative and are, thus, useless in combat, being relegated to a second-class status of servants. | |
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In Interesting Times, Rincewind was nearly taken in by a tribe of woman warriors who lost their menfolk to a very specific plague. Then he's summoned back to Ankh-Morpork by wizards. | |
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The Fallout series' Vault 69 had 999 women and one man within. There is also Vault 68, with 999 men and one woman, but what happened within either Vault is unknown. | |
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Mass Effect: The krogan were hit by a Depopulation Bomb that causes 99.9% of births to be stillborn (amazingly, this actually stabilizes the krogan birthrate). As a result, females who can reliably bring larger litters to term are considered extremely valuable, and to prevent themselves from becoming pawns of the tribes, women have segregated themselves into single-sex clans. One planet is mentioned to have once been the main base of a notorious female krogan warlord, who was one of the last women around who could reliably bear living offspring — and who parlayed that into a position of enormous power, gathering a literal armada of male krogan to her banner. For Salarians, the race is 90% male, but they rarely wield political power. The females wield the highest ranks through being clan matriarchs. This is subverted for the Salarians, however, because the females closely regulate the gender of their children, enforcing the 90/10 ratio. There's a logical reason for their doing so, as well. Salarians are "haplo-diploid oviparous" reproducers. Basically, females lay eggs frequently (at least once a year, if not more), even without any sexual contact; unfertilised eggs hatch as males, fertilised eggs hatch as females. This is balanced by a 40-year lifespan, but the salarian colonies still tend to require careful self-regulation to avoid overpopulation. Flavor text in the third game reveals that the salarian homeworld suffered a critical Overpopulation Crisis before they instituted this rule. |
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Star Trek: The Star Trek: Voyager episode "Favorite Son" features a species called the Taresians, whose population is only 10% male, leading to the males being highly prized and honored with multiple wives. An important plot point is Harry Kim turning out to be a Taresian implanted in a Human womb and therefore growing up Human until his hidden Taresian genes kick in. Ultimately, this is subverted by both Harry not really being a Taresian (he was secretly implanted with their genes) and Taresian males dying on their wedding nights so that their wives can absorb enough genetic material to reproduce. The Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Cogenitor" features a species who have three genders — the third gender doesn't pass on any genetic material, but their involvement is still necessary for the male and female to successfully reproduce. The "cogenitors" are treated in a manner not befitting pet hamsters — they aren't even given names, let alone education or freedom (the cogenitors make up less than 3% of the population, setting themselves into this trope nicely). |
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In Fallout: Equestria - Project Horizons, Stable 99 is a "rare gender is enslaved" variant masquerading as a "rare gender is worshipped" variant. A highly tradition-based society dependent on strict population control, stallions (or "bucks", as they are called) are kept as a small minoritynote 40 stallions to 500 mares and given no rights or liberties whatsoever; they are considered breeding stock and fit only to provide reproduction and sexual release, with the mares being culturally indoctrinated to genuinely believe that stallions only care about breeding and don't need to explicitly consent to sex. Because of this brutally utilitarian view of the genders, stallions in Stable 99 have a limited lifespan, and are "retired"note executed and broken down into protein to feed the survivors once they age past 40 and their sexual viability declines. | |
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The two warring factions in Angels 2200 appear to have chosen opposite versions of this trope following the male Gendercide: the Colonials appear to have opted for version one, with males in command positions, while the Terrans appear to have opted for version two, since none of their males have ever appeared at all... which is not surprising, considering the Terrans created the Gendercide plague in the first place. One Terran pilot claims that her father didn't die in the plague: he abandoned his family to become a playboy afterwards. | |
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The Sliders episode "Love Gods" is a Type 2 example set in a Lady Land. The bulk of the male population was killed by a biological weapon released in the Gulf War, and the few who survived are kept in facilities with the intent of using them to breed future generations. Their accommodations are relatively luxurious, which gives the initial impression of a Type 1 example, but it is a Gilded Cage. This goes to the ridiculous extent that the two world superpowers (based on male population count), the US and Australia, constantly steal each other's males. Men are rated on a number of "encounters" per month. A particular stud is famous for having the average count in the 200s (that's over 6 women per day). Another man is forcibly separated from his wife and placed in a repopulation facility, and she's not allowed to even see him, much less sleep with him, because she's not attractive enough for their eugenics program. Professor Arturo laments the lack of artificial insemination technology on this world, and he'd be happy to help them out, if only they cared what he had to say instead of how many "encounters" he could have in a day. | |
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Played both ways in One Piece. The "Isle of Women", Amazon Lily, forbids men to step upon it on pain of death. This works so well that only the oldest woman on the island could even identify a man when she saw one, since all the women who leave the island for supplies and what not and know what males look like are just coming back to the island. However, once Luffy befriends Boa Hancock and gains her permission to be on the island, the women can't get enough of him and are eager to just touch him before he leaves. When the male crew of Trafalgar Law are permitted to land on Amazon Lily to tend to Luffy's injuries after the Marineford Arc, they exhibit a similar fascination with the men, with only the more hardcore traditionalists keeping them from peacefully intermingling. | |
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Non-plot point examples in the Pokémon games: Many monsters are more likely to appear as one gender over the other. The Starter Pokemon, Fossil Pokémon and many others like Eeveelutions and Lucario have a gender ratio skewed to favor males and only 12.5% (or one in eight) are females. This specific gender ratio is put in place mainly to make it harder to breed more of them as females determine what species hatch from eggs. At least two species (Combee and Salandit) need to be female in order to evolve and they also have the same gender ratio. One family (Litleo and Pyroar) apparently have the opposite gender ratio (only one in eight are male). The only difference is that the males have a flaming mane (what with being a fire lion and all). |
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Futurama: In "Amazon Women in the Mood", Fry and Zapp Brannigan are captured by giant women and sentenced to death by constantly having sex with them, a.k.a. "Death by Snu-Snu". It's also indicated that the other men in the tribe all died from crushed pelvises. "The Farnsworth Parabox" involves travel to Alternate Universes by way of cardboard boxes. Prof. Farnsworth sticks his head into one, and withdraws it, covered in lipstick prints. He comments: "All women! I think I'll put this one aside for later." In "The Late Phillip J. Fry", Professor Farnsworth creates a time machine that can only go forward in time. The Professor, Bender, and Fry go forward in time through several different periods. Eventually, they reach one where the Earth is populated by gorgeous young women. They offer to fix the boys' time machine so they can get back to the right time period... after they have a fertility banquet to honor their visitors, since men are very rare in their society ("even very old and stupid males are prized"). Bender, being the odd one out and angry that the other two didn't want to stay in a previous time period full of killer robots, cuts their visit short out of petty revenge. |
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In Garrett, P.I., goblins produce five or six male offspring per female born. Goblin culture is too macho-oriented to settle for polyandry, gay relationships or equal rights, so one-third of their males die in fights over females before age 23. Female goblins with any sense tend to ditch their husbands and run off to the human lands the first chance they get. | |
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Final Fantasy: With one exception involving Time Travel, players only ever see female Mithra in Final Fantasy XI. They are, mechanically, an all-female race. They do have males, but according to the game's backstory, males are rare and kept sheltered to ensure their species' survival. They typically stay home and raise the kids while the females hunt and adventure. In Final Fantasy XIV, the Hrothgar have a staggeringly low female populace, which makes seeing one in the open nigh unheard of. What little females are there are revered and protected, giving rise to the matriarchal culture the Hrothgar have and crowning one as their queen. The males take the name of their queen as their surname, with the A- prefix denoting their continued service, or the -sch suffix for the one they left service to, usually as a result of their passing. |
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Dathomiri, as seen in The Courtship of Princess Leia, are a matriarchal Human Subspecies of Force Sensitive who developed a culture in which males are oppressed and even unconsciously prevented from mastering their own Force powers due to influence from a female Dark Jedi in their distant past. The story itself has Luke arrive on the planet and be immediately enslaved, as his being a "male witch" makes him incredibly attractive as a potential mate. However, he later proves to be largely playing along, not seriously threatened. Also, the Nightsisters — an outcast clan of Dathomiri who embrace the Dark Side — are even worse than the regular Dathomiri, with a tendency to execute their males after mating with them. Even in the canon depiction of Dathomir in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the Nightsisters are still a Lady Land matriarchy who ruthlessly subjugate their Nightbrothers. | |
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Wonder Woman (1975): Steve Trevor is the only man who has reached Lady Land Hidden Elf Village Paradise Island in millennia. The younger Amazons have strange feelings, so Queen Hippolita declares that an Amazon will escort him to his country. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: The Gerudo have only one male child every 100 years, and he becomes their king. Unfortunately, one male child, Ganondorf, isn't happy being the king of just the Gerudo. | |
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Total Command: For unknown reasons, when Quirks began to appear, the 1:1 men-to-women ratio became skewed into a 1:4 ratio, and only women got Quirks. Men end up being discriminated against because they never get Quirks, but when Izuku becomes the first man known to have a Quirk, he instantly becomes the target of hundreds of women. | |
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One of the basic assumptions in Children of Men is that people have suddenly become infertile, and no one is sure why. When a woman who is not only fertile but actually pregnant is found, she's fought over like she was the last slice of pizza at a frat house poker game. | |
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Warhammer: Only one tenth of all dwarfs are born female. Dwarf holds are ruled over by kings, and women hold little political power but are still highly respected in their society. Women may marry more than one man, in which case they are encouraged to marry brothers. Dwarf women are so prized that many of them are literally worth their weight in gold as the price of their dowry; this means most dwarf men prefer bigger brides. A similar arrangement extends to the Ancestor Gods, with the brothers Grungni and Grimnir both married to Valaya. Almost all Fimir are male. Females, known as mearghs, are exceptionally rare and revered, and rule their species' holds as supreme queens. |
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Deep Rise: The only sentient life form that cannot be found on Earth is called the Signaler, a race of quadrupedal lizards whose gender can be controlled; the more heat you force-feed the egg, the higher the probability the signaler hatches as a male. Since males look like comatose dumbasses and are rare because it takes multiple eggs on the sides to ensure the central eggs get enough heat, they're treated as breeding stock and trophy sons. When their technology gets advanced enough to invent incubation chambers, an entire world war erupts over the treatment of males in a matriarchal society, with a Nazi-esque faction outright raping and murdering any males born into their fold. After the apocalypse, one of the last survivors tries to impregnate herself with frozen sperm because all the males are dead, and dies from medical complications. | |
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In Star Fleet Battles, some ugly wars on Alpha Centauri resulted in so many men being killed off that the planet shifted over to a matriarchal society. For a while, men were relegated to 'traditional women's' roles in society and reduced in status, though by the time of the setting, this had eased (along with the gender imbalance). For all intents and purposes, they have equal rights, though Alpha Centauri women outnumber their men in Star Fleet and other branches of Federation government. | |
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The Doctor Who serial "Galaxy Four" features Type 2 with the Drahvins. We only ever meet the females and their leader, Maaga, is initially confused when the Doctor's companion Steven asks about their men. When she does understand her response is an offhand remark that they keep as many males as they need and simply kill the rest. | |
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In NationStates, the country Lovable Weirdos has no men naturally. Men are bought from the nation of Des-Bal as slaves and used only for breeding purposes with next to no rights. | |
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It's complicated with foxtaurs in the Chakona Space 'verse. Vixens outnumber Todds four-to-one, so they practice polygyny, and males are variously strongly discouraged to forbidden from pursuing "dangerous" professions such as hunting. | |
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Through a good portion of the Inheritance Cycle, Saphira angsts about being the last living female dragon in Alagasia, thus the duty, she feels, falls to her to repopulate the world with the two remaining eggs that are still under control by The Empire. Later, when it is found that there is another living dragon, she quickly responds to the urge to ensure the continuation of her species, which is not reciprocated. She hatched around a year ago. This counts as an example because there are plural males, just unhatched. Oh, and Glaedr receives VIP status for having a pulse. | |
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The Rainbow Cadenza by J. Neil Schulman is a rare example of both at the same time. It all starts with cheap sex-selection technologies, specifically an over-the-counter drug called Adamine which suppresses the production of X-chromosome-carrying sperm, ensuring that any child a man sires while taking the drug is male. In anticipation of World War III, first-world nations approve tax incentives supporting the use of the drug, hoping to breed a critical mass of soldiers to be drafted. As a result, an entire generation almost totally eschews bearing female children. In the aftermath, males outnumber females by a factor of 20 — many of them have PTSD, and do to the remaining women what crazy, violent men have done throughout history. To counter this, the newly created world government alters the draft; similar to the current laws for soldiers, all able-bodied women are conscripted for state-sponsored prostitution from the ages of 18-21 — any male who has paid their taxes and has not been convicted of a crime can make use of them in a controlled environment. After they finish their service, "veterans" receive a generous enough stipend that they can live comfortably without having to work, and their votes in political matters are worth 20 of a heterosexual man's (while a homosexual or an asexual's are worth 10, as they do not make use of the service). A democratic majority of women support this system, as it promotes them to a status enjoyed by South African whites under apartheid a la Armitage III, with the "draft-dodging" remainder becoming "Touchables" with no recognized human rights. Schulman wrote the book as an attack on conscription: | |
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Lensman: The natives of Lyrane II in Second Stage Lensmen have a strict one-child policy... but it's one person per parent. The extremely rare male birth doesn't count because they aren't "persons". Males are only allowed to live until puberty because Lyranian science hasn't (yet) come up with any other way for a person to become pregnant. Once a given male has serviced his quota of persons, he's promptly killed. | |
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BattleTanx: A plague wiped out 99% of the female population. The remainder were dubbed QueenLords, and the remaining men fight over them with tanks. The sequel reveals that the plague was unleashed by Cassandra, a psychic who wanted to weed out any females unable to use the Edge. | |
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The Star Trek: Voyager episode "Favorite Son" features a species called the Taresians, whose population is only 10% male, leading to the males being highly prized and honored with multiple wives. An important plot point is Harry Kim turning out to be a Taresian implanted in a Human womb and therefore growing up Human until his hidden Taresian genes kick in. Ultimately, this is subverted by both Harry not really being a Taresian (he was secretly implanted with their genes) and Taresian males dying on their wedding nights so that their wives can absorb enough genetic material to reproduce. | |
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A large part of the plot of Nagasarete Airantou is that Ikuto is the only male on the whole island, making him the only one who can help repopulate it. The end of the anime has an inversion: The men from Airantou had drifted to another nearby island, creating the exact opposite situation when Ikuto's sister washed up there. We see her, and she describes a situation that is almost identical to what Ikuto went through, just as a girl on an island of guys instead, where the men on the other island are all treating her respectfully, whereas many of the females with Ikuto have various levels of intent to claim him as their own. | |
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Malifaux: Gremlin females (outnumbered by males 20 to 1) are generally kept away from the more dangerous activities and so tend to survive longer than the males, who also fawn on them in hopes of being allowed to have sex. It's not a true "worship" variant, however, as the females are expected to keep up the population, so they pay for living in the comparative lap of luxury by popping out constant broods of gremlins, up to twenty at a time, and looking after them. Still, it's possible for the females to get involved in the fighting too; two of the gremlin faction leaders are female, and there's several female gremlin special characters as well, ranging from Trixibelle to a somewhat homely gremlin female who flies on a homemade rocket pack. The monstrous swamp-creatures called silurids have only one female per ten males, and so females form the center of their communes, rearing their broods whilst the males bring them food and defend them against attack. |
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YuYu Hakusho has an example of the rare gender being expelled with extreme prejudice. Hiei, the only male ever born to the Koorime, is thrown off their floating island shortly after his birth. He was apparently conceived through his mother's interactions with a fire demon, rather than the usual immaculate conception. In the anime at least, the rare males born from such events (which has to happen around the time they spontaneously become pregnant with a female child) are inherently born with fire magic affinity and are felt to be a threat, making the anti-male behavior of the old crone a case of self-fulfilling prophesy. | |
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Dragonriders of Pern: The golden "queen" dragons are both the rarest dragons and the only fertile females. Queen dragons make up about five percent of the entire dragon population, while greens (the smallest and lowest-ranking) are about half the population. Interestingly, greens are also female, and are only sterile because (like the males) they are fed firestone to allow them to breathe flame. Brief scenes involving a young gold dragon seem to suggest that if they were to withhold firestone from a green (either from hatching, possibly allowing them only a small ration thereof; or from a mature green) they may produce viable clutches. This does produce mild Fridge Logic moments with the primary plot point from the first novel, but they may be Hand Waved or justified by the fact that it's said that green clutches produce smaller, weaker hatchlings than gold clutches. Also, only golds produce another gold, one per clutch or less. When you need dragons to keep your planet from being devoured by Thread, you want big, strong dragons with stamina, thus from golds and not greens. In the first novel, the dragons' numbers have dwindled during the Long Interval to the point that the last operating Weyr has only ever had one living queen dragon at any time. In Dragonsdawn, the origin story of how the colonists came to Pern and how the dragons were created, it's revealed that the above points are likely a misinterpretation of the ACTUAL reason green dragons are sterile: They were bio-engineered to be that way. |
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Hell Comes to Frogtown: Sam Hell is the most fertile man on Earth in a future where fertility is scarce. While valuable, he is forced into a government mission to rescue — and impregnate — a treasured group of fertile women. | |
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Captain America supervillain and Straw Feminist Superia tries to invoke Type 1 to Take Over the World: she builds a missile with a biological warhead capable of sterilizing all women on Earth except for her group of female followers, thus making them the only fertile females on Earth and thus its rulers. Captain America rightfully calls her nuts. | |
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In Draconia Chronicles, male tigers live in a peaceful enclave while the females get sent into combat. Male dragons, in their turn, are so rare that only the queen is allowed to speak with them. | |
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