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Tertiary Sexual Characteristics
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Writers tend to assume that for some reason most viewers will assume that a non-human protagonist is male by default. So to make absolutely sure there's no Viewer Gender Confusion, developers will assign Tertiary Sexual Characteristics to the female characters, and sometimes the male characters as well. The male characteristics tend to be less obvious. Note that many, many animals already have distinct sex-specific characteristics, though these are almost guaranteed to be totally ignored in designing fictional animal characters. (They are likely to remember that male lions are the only ones with manes, though.) The writers either didn't do their research, which can end up with Animal Gender-Bender, or assumed the viewers wouldn't know what they are. For animal characters, this is caused by the assumption that the only way to convey gender in such characters is through gender stereotypes in design. Feminizing accessories and traits include: Noticeable eyelashes, sometimes accompanied by eyeliner and/or eyeshadow. Even if the animal isn't anthropomorphized in any other way (including not possessing hair in the first place), long eyelashes are one of the quickest ways to establish that this character is, in fact, female. A bow, or, less commonly, a flower of femininity. Ears as Hair Some type of jewelry, especially if the character is meant to be older. Pink, purple, or pastel-colored clothes and/or accessories. A pink, or purple pastel "girly" coloration, or at least lighter than the male. An all-white fur color in mammals (As a feminine tertiary sexual characteristic, this is most commonly applied to cats and mice. White dogs, white wolves, polar bears, and beluga whales are also white or appear that way, but their white coloration is not applied as a feminizing trait, and the latter two animals are or appear white by default.) A bare midriff. Lipstick. High heels, or a leg shape suggestive of them. Painted fingernails/toenails/claws. A skirt, with one possible exception. (Amusingly, equivalent male characters rarely wear pants, making most of them Half Dressed Cartoon Animals.) Long or heavily-styled hair with decorations, even if their species doesn't even have hair in real life! A head full of "hair". (Though this one would, technically, be a secondary sexual characteristic if the hair is natural.) A full outfit, if equivalent male characters wear minimal clothing. Sitting with legs closed, keeping limbs more to herself in general and of course the Girly Run. If the character has a more human-like figure, a colored underbelly stylized in a way that resembles a leotard or a one-piece swimsuit. Masculinizing accessories and traits are naturally far more generic: A baseball cap or top hat. A necktie or bowtie. Pants. Bottomlessness or Pantslessness, if equivalent female characters are fully dressed. Orange tabby fur on male cats, especially those paired with white female cats. Wearing Blue, red or darker, bolder, or more deeply colored clothing and/or accessories. A blue, red, or darker coloration. Baldness or short "hair". A moustache, goatee or beard A cigar, especially in Golden Age cartoons. A scar. Muscular bodies Eyelashes that serve to make the character look androgynous to an extent, while being more subdued and less numerous compared to those of female characters. In older anime and manga, this may take the form of a "unilash" that juts out from the corner of each eye, often to indicate a Pretty Boy. Occasionally, the only difference between a boy and a girl will be the location of the bow. If it's a bowtie, it's a boy, and if it's a hairbow, it's a girl. (The bow itself may even be identical.) Human girl characters are sometimes depicted wearing bows on their head, but this is not as pervasive as depicting a female animal character this way. On the positive side, these gender identifiers are pervasive enough to be considered shorthand for viewers who may be hearing impaired. On the negative side, they are pervasive enough to lead to Viewer Gender Confusion for male characters with stereotypically "girly" traits, including many a Bishōnen. Remember though that Tropes Are Tools and that use of these characteristics aren't bad in and of themselves and helps dispel Viewer Gender Confusion in a quick and easily understood manner. A Super-Trope to: Pink Means Feminine and its Sub Tropes, especially Pink Girl, Blue Boy True Blue Femininity Red Hot Masculinity Compare Secondary Sexual Characteristics, Group-Identifying Feature, and Non-Mammal Mammaries. For more drastic and often bizarre differences between the sexes, see Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism. |
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Tangle of Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW) averts this, as she has a rather boyish appearance and a gender-neutral color scheme (black, orange, and yellow). If it weren't for the eyelashes and Sega's no-pants-on-boys-allowed clothing mandate, you wouldn't be able to tell at first glance. | |
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Finding Nemo: While the franchise generally averts this with their characters, there are still a few examples: Jacques the cleaner shrimp is a Downplayed Example. While the antennas are a non-gendered trait of his species, Jacques’ are stylised to resemble a curved moustache to go with his stereotypical French character. Dory’s father Charlie (a regal blue tang) is notable for having black markings that doesn’t reach his head area, giving the resemblance of a receding hairline, as well as having a blockier body than his wife and daughter. |
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Parodied and subverted in A Bug's Life, where Francis, a male ladybug, has long eyelashes, full lips and a beauty mark, and voiced by Denis Leary. | |
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Gary Larson had some fun with this in The Far Side, and it's possible that the aforementioned Pearls Before Swine took some inspiration from him. Female characters (but usually not the cows) would usually wear ridiculous flower-print dresses, beehive hairdos, and fancy rimmed glasses. | |
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While X-23 is very clearly a young woman, creators Chris Yost and Craig Kyle have said that the arrangement of her claws was intended to be this, and that two claws in the hands and one in the foot is a female trait for Wolverine's particular mutation. | |
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Eyelashes appear to be the only difference between males and females of most species of Digimon. The voices usually readily reveal gender - but not always. Season 4 has a male Biyomon with the same appearance and voice of the female Biyomon who was a main character in Season 1. The male Biyomon in Season 5 has a more masculine voice, but he isn't any less adorable 'n' pink... and with his debut, we've officially seen more male than female versions of the most stereotypically feminine rookie-level Digimon. | |
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In Sluggy Freelance neither talking rabbit Bun-Bun (who's male) nor talking ferret Kiki (who's female) are given any sexual characteristics, tertiary or otherwise. Likewise Aylee (an alien with Involuntary Shapeshifting powers) has often had no features indicating she's female, though her current Green-Skinned Space Babe form has plenty of female features, right down to the "naughty parts." | |
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Dolores in Zone of the Enders has a generally female shape, but nearly all the major Orbital Frames have somewhat androgynous shapes. She is, however, the only pink one. That would possibly make Jehuty (main game series) and Testament (Fist of Mars) subversions, as they have female AIs as well, but more masculine color schemes (Blue and brown, respectively) as more befitting their male pilots (Dolores has a male pilot too, but given her role as a Robot Girl, pilots herself most of the time). | |
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My Little Pony: The Big Brother Ponies are a bit larger than other adult ponies (all female), have overall bolder color schemes, and are given hilariously exaggerated "masculine" names, accessories, and occupations. However, their most prominent designating male feature is... big hairy feet. | |
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In one Growing Paynes strip in The Dandy, the Paynes attend a wedding, and the boys wear kilts. Percy hasn't had a haircut in a while, and people keep mistaking him for a girl. In the end, he gets frustrated and proves he's a boy by lifting up his kilt to show off his... blue underwear. | |
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The Bad Idea Bears from Avenue Q use the bowtie/hairbow version, plus the 'female' bear has eyelashes and a pearl necklace. | |
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Inverted in 8-Bit Theater where Berserker assumes that all of the Light Warriors are women due to their lack of beards. To be fair, he is a Dwarf. | |
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Shrek: In the first movie, Donkey doesn't realize that the dragon is a girl until she leans in close, into the light, and he can see she has long eyelashes as well as pinkish skin and some coloration to draw attention to the lips. Also a hint of purple on the eyelids, too. She looks like she has an enormous makeup mirror stashed somewhere in her treasure hoard. While Shrek hardly appears to have any hair at all (except in his ears), the ogre form of Fiona has a full head of hair. Granted, Fiona is not a natural born ogre like Shrek so this may have something to do with it. In the spinoff Puss in Boots (2011) the main cue that Kitty Softpaws is female is that she has long eyelashes, which don't appear till after she removes her luchadore mask and stay around when she puts the mask back on, maybe Puss was just being unobservant that day? |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Played for Laughs in this comic. Also parodied here: "We're cartoon men, our gender can be altered with just six straight lines." |
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The Boob from Yellow Submarine sports very prominent eyelashes. | |
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Dungeon Keeper Ami: In the first chapter, the Horned Reaper correctly identifies Ami as a girl based on her clothing: | |
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This is slightly justified in Kill la Kill AU, because of the overall artstyle, leaving one to figure out if a character is a boy or a girl by their clothes mostly, as they don't have the usual tells (like eyelashes, for example). A more overt case is Mako, in that, if it wasn't show to a degree with her green bow and dress, one would have thought she was a boy, as she had shorter hair than the other girls, while Shiro verges on Dude Looks Like a Lady (with his hair). We also have this with a baby Ragyo, as her incubator has pink decals. | |
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An interesting example might be Power Rangers. With a few rare exceptions, when morphed, the female rangers (at least the ones that are female both here and in Japan) have a skirt wrapped around their suit. Considering the fact that usually female rangers are pink, it's not likely confusion will occur. Notably when the series features female Blue Rangers, their suits are always a paler shade than the normal. Compare Tori's suit◊ and Madison's◊ to Billy's◊. | |
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Female characters from Yu-Gi-Oh! have longer eyelashes and shinier irises. | |
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In Garfield, the grey kitten Nermal is believed by many to be female due to his long eyelashes and excessive cuteness (and in the TV series, female voice actor), but Nermal is actually a young tomcat. | |
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Treelo the lemur is male, but has bright fur of multiple colors (bright green, bright blue and white with a red nose) and speaks with a feminine Elmo-like voice (despite the puppeteer being male). Like Ojo, he is often subject to Viewer Gender Confusion. | |
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Discworld, of course, messes with this: Dwarf men and women look exactly the same. Originally it was frowned upon in dwarf society to openly identify their gender, but recently some females dwarfs have begun to wear makeup and dresses to differentiate. Amusingly, nearly all of these are derivations on what the others wear; Cheri is shocked at the idea of shaving, clarifying dwarfs still want to be dwarfs. The only Dwarf known to shave is the very male Casanunda. He is also depicted as wearing very frilly clothes in some illustrations, while other dwarves of both sexes wear armour. When the extremely prim and proper Miss Maccalariat insisted that male golems could not clean the ladies' room, Moist re-named one of them Gladys and had "her" start wearing a blue gingham dress. He does rationalize any golem gender-identification is largely arbitrary, but was more disturbed by Gladys reading women's magazines and slowly acquiring a more obviously female personality. "She" starts to develop a crush on him too. If you thought he was disturbed when she started acting feminine, that's nothing compared to some of the happier sorts of thoughts that cross his mind when he cottons on that she's getting sweet on him. At one point he compares her to "the male golems", before reminding himself that they aren't male, any more than Gladys is really female. And what about the "boys" conscripted into the Borogravian Army in Monstrous Regiment? (Socks.) |
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In Nyaruko: Crawling with Love!, Hyrda-chan, the goddess of the deep ones, looks just like her male counterpart Dagon-kun, with an added pink bow and lipstick. | |
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The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss: Many of the female Muppets such as Jane Kangaroo, Sarah Hall Small, Eliza Jane, Pam-I-Am, Lady Fretibula, and Princess Tizz have these. | |
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Yumi's Cells: The Cells that live in Yumi's brain are little people that wear blue jumpsuits that normally cover all of their hair, making them look androgynous. Named Cells have Custom Uniforms to distinguish themselves from the generic Cells and provide gender clues. Female Cells tend to have long hair or Girlish Pigtails or wear skirts. Love Cell only has bangs, but her suit is pink. | |
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The Wiz: In the original Broadway production, Dorothy wore red bows on her Girlish Pigtails. The TV special featured her wearing a headband. | |
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Feminist Frequency: Discussed in Ms. Male Character – Tropes vs Women: | |
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Pointedly averted in George Herriman's Krazy Kat, where the lead character looked male but was treated by the author as indeterminately gendered; when a pronoun was used, it was usually "he" (perhaps in a nonstandard gender-neutral sense?), but Herriman deliberately muddied the waters with the romantic triangle between Krazy and the indisputably male Offissa Pupp and Ignatz Mouse. Most people since have treated Krazy as definitively female based upon the strip's cultural context. Which is odd, as he will bow to ladies, tip his hat (if he has one) and occasionally be subject to the wiles of the local "vamp." Of course, he'll start comparing himself to Juliet one panel later. Essays have been written. Not to mention the fact that "he" wears a red bow on his neck. And no, not a bowtie. | |
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This was specifically asked for when Saban asked for new footage in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers when it came to the yellow ranger. Dubbed "Zyu 2" by fans since the yellow ranger has a male build and didn't act differently in terms of mannerisms in terms of mannerisms compared to pink in the new footage ordered it was specifically asked for the yellow ranger to simply act (while still played by a male in suit) more feminine by keeping her legs together when teleporting, being more of pink's friend and simply just acting more girly. The build difference is noticable when seeing the Zyuranger footage compared to seeing Trini actually wearing the suit herself, especially at the back of her hips. | |
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Hop on Pop: Pop's daughter wears a bow on her head. | |
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Discussed at least twice in Out of Jimmy's Head. Jimmy initially mistakes Dolly for Golly before he notices her bow. The cartoon side plot of Episode 3, "Sleepover." At the beginning, Dolly loses her bow and her dress gets torn to shirt length, and she comments on how those were the only ways anyone could tell she was a girl. Later, Golly puts the bow on, and the situation is treated as a Gender Bender plot among the toons. |
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Tokyo Mew Mew: Subverted in a way, as the aliens, all male, tend to have some feminine hairstyles. The most prominent of the three would be the youngest, Tart, who has pigtails. They all have very thick eyelashes to confuse you more. As for the Cat Girl and title character, Ichigo, when she becomes a cat, she has black fur. This makes it very hard to see her eyelashes and when the male cat Ryou comes by and has such obvious eyelashes against light fur, it throws you off. Sometimes voices are the only way you can tell, and even then it's hard, since you have some Crossdressing Voices going on. Though, this is anime... |
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The Electric Tale of Pikachu had a version of the "Pikachu's Goodbye" story where Pikachu hooks up with another Pikachu with a flower on its head. Its presumably meant to be female, with Ash's Pikachu being male. | |
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Somewhat subverted in Chotto Edo Made, because boys who are cute still have lightly pronounced eyelashes. Soubi, a boyish girl also has that kind of light eyelashes, while her love interest, a girlish boy has much more pronounced eyelashes. | |
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Homestuck: Calliope, a Cherub who happens to be female, has visible eyelashes. She shares a body with her brother Caliborn. When he is first properly shown, he also has the eyelashes. Both wear the same, gender-neutral outfit (the main difference being Calliope wears a suit jacket with her symbol, while Caliborn takes it off to reveal his on their shirt), and the way they're told apart is by their eye and cheek colors. This is most likely to make them look as androgynous as possible. | |
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Baby Herman of Who Framed Roger Rabbit fame not only has eyelashes and a hair bow, but his hair bow is pink. | |
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Kay Wai Jellese/Kaye Haychold in Jennifer Diane Reitz's webcomics Unicorn Jelly and To Save Her. Kay/Kaye (like the author) is actually male but transgender, as her species defines that. In Unicorn Jelly she's a conical blob with eyes and a mouth and wears a bow that's held in place on her "forehead" by a small stud. In To Save Her she (or a version of her) assumes humanoid form (with a female figure)) and still wears a bow on her forehead. | |
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The Order of the Stick: To his surprise, Roy remains bald when he uses a magical Gender Bender to disguise himself from assassins, forcing him to improvise a wig from a mophead. | |
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In the Mr. Men books, the "Little Miss" characters usually have a bow or other hair decoration to set them apart from their male counterparts. | |
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A Certain Scientific Railgun has Kongo's pet snake Ekatyerina wearing a pink bow. Justified in that there's usually no way to tell reptile genders apart without sticking your hand into a certain orifice and feeling up their... equipment. | |
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KouRyu and AnRyu of GaoGaiGar are basically just like the female Autobots, in pink and dark purple exteriors compared to primary colors. Note that all the other robots in the series have quite masculine faces, and the French Dragons have feminine faces and figures. Not to mention light-up breasts. Volfogg is also more purple than AnRyu, but that can be chalked up to his purple being the standard Ninja color. | |
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Schlock Mercenary has elephants with eyelashes. | |
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Dorf Quest: The girls are pink! And the gods, Blue. | |
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A Cathy comic in the Sunday paper a few years ago that featured a newborn baby. When asked by her grandmother what gender the baby was, the mother replied that she wasn't going to say, because it was the baby's one chance to be treated by people without gender preconceptions. The grandmother immediately begins gushing over the mischievous glint in its eyes and tiny fists that prove that it's a boy. When the mother exclaims that "it's a girl! A tough, strong girl!", the grandmother immediately shifts gears with, "Well, of course it is! Look at that precious dimple!" | |
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The Red Dwarf episode "Parallel Universe" featured Distaff Counterparts of all the cast (except the Cat). The "female" Skutter (a steel-blue utility robot with a claw-like hand and a single eye) was bright pink and had eyelashes and a 'skirt' around her chassis. Averted in Series V•III, which introduced a female Skutter called Madge who looked identical to every other Skutter. The Cat's parallel is, much to his disappointment, a humanoid (male) dog. | |
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Luann uses this and inverts it. Most male characters other than Aaron are given dots for eyes, big round noses and simplistic bodies. The women almost always have full figures, pouty lips, droopey/sexy eyes, etc. Luann herself has a big round head and nose with a line for a mouth. | |
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The writers of the Scamp newspaper comic decided to go against the Gender Equals Breed deal with Lady's and Tramp's puppies, and make one of Scamp's sisters a boy, giving Lady and Tramp two daughters and two sons. The only real difference between Scooter and his sisters Fluffy and Ruffy is that Fluffy and Ruffy have eyelashes and wear ribbons around their neck, and Scooter does not. | |
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In the first Lady and the Tramp film, the Darling's son has an extremely pink bedroom and an equally pink wardrobe. The sequel released decades later swapped it for blue, probably due to pink becoming less unisex since the original film. | |
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Used a lot in the Swedish comic Bamse most commonly in that female characters tend to have much larger and detailed eyes than male ones. | |
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xkcd typically distinguishes female from male stick-figure characters by giving the former hair. | |
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It happens in Pokémon Adventures where one of the main characters, Yellow, has a Pikachu (named "Chu") that also has a flower in her hair, and is a mate to Red's own Pikachu, Pika. They even have a Pichu together. | |
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Very pointedly averted in Blue's Clues. Blue is (duh) blue — and female. Her non-girly color was deliberately chosen for this reason. Blue's friend Periwinkle the cat, despite the girly name, is both pastel and a cat... and male. Furthermore, since most characters have generic "little kid" voices, you frequently can't tell if a character is male or female until someone uses a pronoun on them. Random side-characters were actually far more likely to be female! | |
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In Sherman's Lagoon, you can only tell Sherman and his wife Megan apart by Megan's pearl necklace and slightly darker coloring. In a brief arc where Hawthorne had a girlfriend, the two were distinguished solely by the girlfriend's having eyelashes. This didn't work well—some of the dialogue only makes sense if one assumes even the writer forgot which was which. | |
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A variation of the skull with bow symbol is also used by Shantelle Taylor, who added cracks that resemble eyelashes. | |
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Played with in A Brother's Price. Jerin Whistler wears ribbons in his long hair, jewelery, and walking robes. In-universe, this makes him a normal, masculine man. His sister Corelle, on the other hand, is chastised for letting her hair grow too long. At one point in the story, though, Jerin has to disguise himself as a woman, as to not draw attention to himself. However, the kind of women he can most easily disguise himself as is a whore, as due to male Gender Rarity Value, whores are usually women who try to look as masculine as possible. Jerin dons make-up, and a feather boa to hide his adam's apple, and his shirt is arranged such that it looks like he's hiding breasts underneath. It works, as most men dress a bit less colourful than that, and don't walk around unveiled and unchaperoned. (The Real Life equivalent would be a woman dressing up as Drag Queen.) | |
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The anime began using gender differences starting with Best Wishes. It's most obvious with Pikachu— he was always implied to be male however, thanks to female Pikachu having heart shaped tails post-Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, if he had been meant to be female they would have likely needed to retcon him male in order to avoid having to completely redesign him. Future episodes show Pikachu with gender differences and when Disguised in Drag Pikachu even has a heart-shaped appendage taped onto his tail. Oddly though, the fact no heart shaped tailed Pikachu appeared retroactively implies literally every Pikachu seen before has been male. | |
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Off-White: Kaya, the female wolf Iki takes a liking to, has eyelashes. Very ugly eyelashes, even the co-author doesn't like them. Thankfully they are only visible in closeups. | |
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Neopets didn't always have gender differences, but after the pet artwork received a global update, female pets gained conspicuously longer eyelashes over their male counterparts — or, in the case of the insect-like species: partially-closed eyes. | |
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As for the Cat Girl and title character, Ichigo, when she becomes a cat, she has black fur. This makes it very hard to see her eyelashes and when the male cat Ryou comes by and has such obvious eyelashes against light fur, it throws you off. Sometimes voices are the only way you can tell, and even then it's hard, since you have some Crossdressing Voices going on. Though, this is anime... | |
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Another rare live-action example in The Descent, where the male Crawlers are bald while the female Crawlers have long hair. | |
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The LEGO Life on Mars theme has the female Martian Cassiopeia, whose gender is distinguished from the male Martians by her eyelashes. | |
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Played with in Llamas with Hats in that the llama on the left hand wore a hat brighter than Carl and was even adorned with a daisy. Later on the llama revealed he is a guy called "Paul" to which Carl only replied he needed to delete some photos. | |
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Kung Fu Panda's Master Tigress completely lacks the usual tells — no hourglass figure, cleavage, "lipstick" or long eyelashes. Her clothes are not stereotypically girlish either. Not quite obvious, but still subconsciously telling signs might be her feminine "seductress" eye shape and (but only in comparison to male characters in the movie) lean, not obviously masculine body shape. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1999) features a female Goron. Only male Goron appear in the games and the species might be male-only. In the manga, a mother Goron is depicted with eyelashes and breasts. | |
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The Knight Sabers from Bubblegum Crisis come with rather silly high heels on their armour. Even the Fright Knights who were the rather bulky first concept for the suits had high heels. | |
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In Li'l Horrors, the tomboyish werewolf Claudia wears a pink bow in her fur. | |
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In Simple Samosa, the four main characters all display some degree of tertiary sexual characteristics. Samosa, a boy, wears red shorts; Vada, another boy, wears blue shoes; Dhokla, yet another boy, wears blue shorts and shoes; and Jalebi, the only female of the main characters, wears jewelry (earrings), is usually seen wearing a pink skirt, and has visible eyelashes. | |
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The Pink City: Female characters have eyelashes and male characters don't. According to Word of God, this is the only thing distinguishing them; this artwork features a character who transitioned to male by getting rid of his eyelashes. | |
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In the gender swap arc of Gintama, female characters lose long eyelashes when they're turned into males, while male characters gain long eyelashes when they're turned into females. Sadaharu the giant dog was no exception: he was turned into a realistic female horse, but with luscious long eyelashes. Parodied with Shinpachi, who looks the same save pink glass frames... because he is the same. His glasses were the ones that were genderbent, playing on his status as The Generic Guy. | |
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Of course, in Nermal's case, the fact that he had a clearly female voice actor in Garfield and Friends doesn't help with the confusion at all. Later adaptations would ease the confusion by giving him male voice actors. | |
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Female animals in the Ice Age movies tend to have longer eyelashes, lighter colored fur and, when applicable, obviously feminine bodies. Female sloths in particular have girly "hair" and what appears to be lipstick. In the audio commentary for The Meltdown, it is joked by the character designers that they would have saved themselves a lot of trouble if they'd just stuck a bow on Ellie's head rather than try to modify Manny's design to make it feminine. Dawn of the Dinosaurs features Scrat facing off against a female Scrat for an acorn. Scratte has dark foxy coloring, a significantly curvier body, eyelashes, and blue eyeshadow. She may possibly also be a separate species since, like female gelflings, she can glide. | |
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Crow Cillers leans hard on the eyelash subtrope, even when body switching is in play. The sole exceptions are Bloodwolfe and Ru'mel. Lampshaded in the pilot episode, where a combination Mons strategy guide and furniture catalogue features a pink desk with legs shaped like a pearl necklace captioned with "SHE IS ONLY FOR YOUR FUCKING." |
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Inverted with Littlefoot in The Land Before Time. A notable part of his design is his long, feminine eyelashes, despite being a boy. | |
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Bear in the Big Blue House: Ojo is female, but lacks any human hair, eyelashes or makeup, wears no clothing or accessories, has a low, scratchy voice (keep in mind that prepubescent boy characters tend to be voiced by women) and her fur is darker than Bear's, inverting Pale Females, Dark Males. Even her name sounds like a boy's name (though it appears to be a derivative of "Jojo", which is typically a girl's name). It's enough to cause some Viewer Gender Confusion. Treelo the lemur is male, but has bright fur of multiple colors (bright green, bright blue and white with a red nose) and speaks with a feminine Elmo-like voice (despite the puppeteer being male). Like Ojo, he is often subject to Viewer Gender Confusion. Pip and Pop the otters are male, but have purple fur. Unlike Ojo and Treelo, their voices are clearly masculine. |
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In Kamisama Minarai: Himitsu no Cocotama and its Sequel Series Kira Kira Happy Hirake Cocotama, Cocotama gender is determined mainly by whether their eggshell-shaped underpants have zig-zags or curves at the waistband. Male Cocotamas wear underwear that has zig-zags, while underwear with curves are worn by females. | |
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Game Grumps has Danny lampshades this when he finds out Birdo is trans by saying that pink bows are "practically video game genitalia" | |
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Totally averted in Digger, which may confuse people used to tertiary sexual characteristics in Humanoid Animals. Digger is female, as are many of the matriarchal hyenas, but you'd only know it from the dialogue. She does have what look like Non-Mammal Mammaries, but Word of God suggests they are pectoral muscles, as a wombat's mammary glands are in her pouch. | |
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The Lion King: Male lions cubs have black ear markings, while as adults they have none. While with the exception of Sarabi and adult Vitani, none of the lionesses have ear markings. Oddly, when Simba first appeared as a newborn cub, he lacked these ear markings. All the male lions from cubhood onward have visible whiskers, while none of the females do. The hyenas feature this trope. The males have dark fur patches that resemble Perma-Stubble, while the only noticeably female hyena Shenzi has eye patches shaped like heavily applied eyeshadow, and a mane extending to having bangs and a fringe. Shenzi also has no eyebrows, just like her voice actor Caryn Johnson, aka Whoopi Goldberg. This trope is the reason for a huge debate in the fandom. The cub at the end of the first movie has male markings but the cub in the sequel film is a female named Kiara. They have numerous design differences which have not gone unnoticed by viewers. This has caused Epileptic Trees that the cub in the first film is actually Kopa, Simba's retconned son in series of books released shortly after the first film, and Kiara is actually Simba's and Nala's second cub. |
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Dykes to Watch Out For: In "The Indelible Alison Bechdel", author Alison Bechdel discusses the irritation of comic books wherein the lone woman is distinguished by slapping a female characteristic (lips, long hair, the proverbial bow) on the male default. She also discusses how she was initially unable to draw women and only drew men — and was finally able to draw women only by thinking of them as lesbians and drawing them rather androgynously. | |
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Leap Frog Scout and Violet toys, specifically the “My Pals� line, are basically the same internally. The only three things to tell them apart: Their names, their colors (Leapfrog uses the “Purple Girl, Green Boy“ variant) and the fact that Violet has eyelashes. If you drill them down to only the internals, you cannot tell which belongs to which even if you power them on- this is of course done to save costs, since they’d have to host two different sets of programming data online otherwise. Other Violet toys which doesn’t have the customizations capabilities gives her a more feminine voice. | |
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In Animorphs, female Andalites have smaller tail-blades than males. Male Hork-Bajir have three horns on their faces, while females only have two. | |
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In The Goblin Emperor, female and male mazei (mages, basically) wear the exact same robes and wear their hair in he exact same way. The reader knows this because when the Adremaza introduces Kiru Athmaza, he hopes to be able to pass her off as male nohecharis, but Maia can immediately tell she is a female nohecharo. At no point is it mentioned that the female character changed anything about her appearance before or after this incident. As the setting is quite patriarchal with strict gender roles, it is quite possible Maia would not have seen through it if the character had worn gendered clothes. | |
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In the first movie, Donkey doesn't realize that the dragon is a girl until she leans in close, into the light, and he can see she has long eyelashes as well as pinkish skin and some coloration to draw attention to the lips. Also a hint of purple on the eyelids, too. She looks like she has an enormous makeup mirror stashed somewhere in her treasure hoard. | |
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Sabor the leopard from Tarzan has no feminine characteristics, and doesn't speak. She however is confirmed to be female and apparently had offspring according to some material. The gorillas too lacked heavy gender differentiation aside from their voices (although Kala has dark eyelids that look like she wears eyeshadows), which led to Viewer Gender Confusion with Terk, who was voiced by Rosie O'Donnell. | |
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On Mystery Science Theater 3000, the robot Gypsy has a high-pitched voice and over-sized lips. | |
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WALL•E has the chunky and functional (male) WALL•E next to the sleek (female) Eve. The other Axiom robots who are (presumably) male are more angled and squareish, reminiscent of WALL•E's cube shape. The sole exception is the hairstyling and makeup bot, which speaks in a female voice, subverting the trope. Part of the reason for Tertiary Sexual Characteristics is that closed captioning doesn't confer gender identification. The PR-T's are also all pink... save for a single blue one visible in the background in one shot. | |
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Sonic the Comic: As in the games, Amy is pink. Unlike the games Sonic is not naturally blue furred. He gained blue fur in an accident that caused his superspeed. What this means for Amy is never specified, except for one issue that insisted she originally had brown fur too. It had numerous issues so whether it's accurate is dubious. Minor character Sally Acorn has a bow on her head while her younger brother wears goggles. |
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Faux Pas has foxes where the females have slightly darker fur and eyelashes, as well as makeup-style fur around their eyes. The humans in the comic are likewise confused.◊ Randy, a male red fox, even was miss April once: "Some humans are weak on details". The "gloves" on the vixens are a fairly straight example in the comic. |
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In Berserk (1997) Casca despite managing a Sweet Polly Oliver with her amour still wears a pink tunic in the anime, skin tight legging making her buttocks pronounced and even thigh-high boots in contrast to males of the Band of Hawk. | |
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In A Song of Ice and Fire, fraternal twins Jaime and Cersei Lannister, as children, would sometimes switch clothes, causing adults to mistake them for one another. | |
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In Paths Not Taken, some amateur wand-wielders use probability-magics against a gigantic monstrous arm, which had seized them when they tripped a sorcerous security-system. One of the unleashed change-effects causes the arm to transform from masculine to feminine, complete with pink nail polish on its claws. | |
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In the Pokémon webcomic Lil' Char and the Gang, newer readers often have to be told that Wartortle and Ivysaur are teenage girls, since the dialog rarely mentions their gender and they have no obvious feminizing features. | |
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Jay Briscoe put a bearded skull on his personal Ring of Honor title belt. | |
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Hetalia: Axis Powers: Liechtenstein wears a cute little ribbon, bought for her by her Onii-sama Switzerland. This was required since, without her previous long braided hair, she looked very much like a boy (which she attributes to her non-existent chest, but may very well be because she simply looks almost identical to her adoptive brother). Hungary was originally assumed to be male by everyone including herself. Then puberty hit her like a bombshell (not the first in the series), and so she started wearing a traditional Hungarian folk dress and a flower in her hair. |
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In Barbapapa, all of the girls have flowers on their head. Since the Barbafamily consists of amorphous blobs, it's the only sign. Interestingly, they all have eyelashes. This is best illustrated in the Google Doodle for the 45th anniversary of the books◊. | |
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In Ojarumaru, Denboko would look literally exactly like Denbo if not for two features that distinguish her as female - eyelashes and a ribbon. | |
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Lampshaded by The Nostalgia Chick in the Mulan review (after Samus is revealed to be a girl): | |
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minus. illustrates the titular character's problem with lacking Tertiary Sexual Characteristics here. Many readers have probably thought she's a guy, too. | |
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In the almost never safe-for-work Oglaf, there is a specific reference to the Bow of Shame in "Son of Kronar". They affix it to the head of a newborn baby girl before throwing her in the wolf pit. She tears the wolves limb from limb, causing Kronar to proudly declare her his son. | |
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Vattu zigzags with this one; the women of the dog-like Sahtans are distinguished by their clothes and particularly their veils, but otherwise lack any overt dimorphism. Fluters on the other hand are a complete mystery to all outsiders. | |
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In the live action/CGI/animatronics Cats & Dogs dealt with the Tertiary Sexual Characteristics dilemma by having no female cats and picked a long-limbed and overtly slender breed of dog to play the one female dog character. | |
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In the spinoff Puss in Boots (2011) the main cue that Kitty Softpaws is female is that she has long eyelashes, which don't appear till after she removes her luchadore mask and stay around when she puts the mask back on, maybe Puss was just being unobservant that day? | |
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Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger puts an interesting spin on this. The Gokaiger can copy the powers of past Ranger teams. A few of them have access to suits previously worn by the opposite gender - except the suits will gain or lose the skirts depending on who's wearing them. This is especially funny for GokaiYellow, since many of her predecessors were already gender-flipped by Power Rangers. Also, occasionally, a female ranger's helmet's had earrings. This stopped with Maskman◊ and Fiveman,◊ but it had been there since the beginning with Goranger◊ (although, at least then, her earrings were bombs, so they were at least useful.) And then, there's Battle Fever J where Miss America had a feathered blond hairdo◊ on top of her helmet. |
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Mystère: Bebebe has a pink bow or two in her hair, which makes the performer appear more childlike. | |
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Bill Amend has an odd variation for FoxTrot: Female characters have attached earlobes while male characters have free earlobes. | |
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In the live-action Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, the Chipettes have longer hair than the boys and eyelashes. They do wear clothes for the majority of the film, but their first scene has them arrive from the wild (no clothes) with no NonPrimate breasts or Hartman Hips in sight. (And then later, they possess both features, which they shake during their big musical number.) | |
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In Pogo, the female citizens of Okefenokee Swamp usually wear aprons and/or bonnets, and Hepzibah wears a skirt. Lampshaded in an early strip when Miz Hop Frog successfully hides her gender from Pogo by simply removing her apron. Slightly later, Pogo complains about a butterfly who's decided to take up residence on his head because it makes him look like a girl. | |
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Very subtly done in Happy Feet. The female emperor penguins have purple undersides under their beaks and males have orange. The females also have their chest feathers shaped to vaguely resemble breasts. | |
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Hanna Is Not a Boy's Name has a bat with lipstick, eyelashes, and possibly eyeshadow. It's a bit justified by the fact that she's a vampire who has shapeshifted into a bat, and therefore has retained some of the traits she has in her more humanoid shape. (There's a vampire who, in bat-form, continues to wear glasses.) | |
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Stick Cat: You know Edith is a girl because she has eyelashes, and a boy on the single hair sticking up from her head. | |
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Stick Dog: All of the female dog characters can be identified by their eyelashes, like Stripes and Karen. Stick Cat: You know Edith is a girl because she has eyelashes, and a boy on the single hair sticking up from her head. |
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Another baby example: Alfie/Stormageddon from the 2011 series of Doctor Who is dressed in blue◊, but Doctor Who Confidential reveals that the main "baby actors" in the episode are female twins. | |
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The Shea Fontana version of DC Super Hero Girls features Mrs. Clayface, wife of the villain Clayface, as a character. Aside from her breasts, she also has eyelashes, a bow and lipstick to show she's a woman. | |
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Up: Subverted when we find out Kevin, the brightly-colored bird with no obvious male or female distinguishing characteristics is both female and a mother. Which makes even less sense, as in most sexually dimorphic bird species it's the male who is colorful and often sports long tail feathers, brightly-colored wattles, or eye-catching patterns, while the female is of a muted color that blends into the background. But play straight with Ellie, who as a child looked so tomboyish in her explorer gear, the only indication that she was a girl was the pale, pink bow on her messy moptop. |
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Up | hasFeature |
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Used in typically snarky fashion in Pearls Before Swine: The female crocs and pigs are identified by Simpsons-style beehive hairdos. Maura the non-anthropomorphic duck is given a hair (?) bow to distinguish her from her identical boyfriend Guard Duck - so that when they're both wearing helmets in a recent strip, her bow rides atop. | |
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In Slimy Underbelly, the only way to tell which of a pair of Senior Citizen Gods is female is that she has big floppy red bows decorating one of her many tentacles. | |
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Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. | hasFeature |
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In Catstronauts, all the female cats in the series have the hair on the sides of their heads styled like a woman's hairdo. | |
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In Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf, Wolnie has visible eyelashes and lipstick to distinguish her as a female in comparison to the male wolves, who don't have either feature. | |
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Takopi's Original Sin: Happians are small octopus-like aliens that have no noticeable gender variance. The only exception to this is the Happians' matriarch, Happy Mama, whom is too large to depict on-panel but wears a bow on one of her tentacles to compensate. | |
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Pokémon: The Series: Ash's Butterfree falls for another Butterfree, who just happens to be the only Pink Butterfree around (and this was before Shiny or gendered Pokémon were introduced in the main series). As it turns out, possibly as a Mythology Gag, Shiny Butterfree do have a pinkish tint, and have distinctly pink hands, feet, wings, and a mouth in the second generation. In future depictions of the Pink Butterfree, she's depicted with black spots on the bottom of her wings (which is the game's gender difference for Butterfree), confirming the gender to be female. The anime began using gender differences starting with Best Wishes. It's most obvious with Pikachu— he was always implied to be male however, thanks to female Pikachu having heart shaped tails post-Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, if he had been meant to be female they would have likely needed to retcon him male in order to avoid having to completely redesign him. Future episodes show Pikachu with gender differences and when Disguised in Drag Pikachu even has a heart-shaped appendage taped onto his tail. Oddly though, the fact no heart shaped tailed Pikachu appeared retroactively implies literally every Pikachu seen before has been male. There's another episode where a female Charizard appears. No points for guessing how you tell. The end of one episode has three wild Muk falling in love with three other Muk. The latter are identified vaguely as female by their more feminine Pokémon Speak voices, as well as having Blush Stickers. Jessie's Dustox averted this trope, except for the episode she was released in. In it she wears ribbons on her antenna while her mate doesn't. Meowth's crush Meowzie has eyelashes, unlike the other (presumably male) Meowth do. She also wears bows, which shows that she is both a female and that she is a pampered pet (in contrast to both Meowth and the others, who are street cats). Serena's Eevee wore a ring of flowers on her head. When she evolved she became a Sylveon, which is usually male but has a very pink and frilly design that makes it look effeminate. May's Bulbasaur had a heart-shaped mark on her head. Her gender was confirmed when she was depicted as a Venusaur. |
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The Sandman (1989): Averted for Luz in A Game of You. She's an anthropomorphic parrot wearing a dickey with a bowtie, a typically masculine form of apparel. You have to pay attention to the pronouns others give her to figure it out. | |
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Top of the Line (Editor-Bug): The Irkens being a canonical example of this trope is lampshaded for laughs in Trading Dismay, where Zim arranges his Role Swap Plot with Tenn by means of ripping off her eyelashes (which she refers to as her "defining characteristics") and wearing them on his own eyes while also curling his antennae, while she straightens hers to match his usual look. | |
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Smallfoot: Female yetis have thicker fur around their legs, suggesting that they are wearing skirts. | |
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Just look at the cover of the film Space Buddies. Can you spot the token female?◊ | |
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In Happy Tree Friends, Flaky lacks the long eyelashes of the other girls. Between this and the fact that the series has very little intelligible dialogue, there has been quite a bit of Viewer Gender Confusion with her. | |
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In The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!, after one of the lobster-like Pirates of Ipecac is suddenly revealed as female, she is then always portrayed with eyelashes and slightly rounded curves on all the pieces of her shell. Up till this point, both pirates had been drawn identically. Since the transition occurs between panels of the same strip, Cleaveland is probably Hanging A Lampshade on this trope. | |
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Anastasia - At the end, Bartok gets a love interest. You can tell she's female because she has eyelashes, a Furry Female Mane and her mouth is drawn to look like there's lipstick on it. | |
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In the Homestar Runner cartoon "Costume Commercial", the ghosts used as decoration are typical white blobby ghosts, until the announcer says "and for the ladies..." at which point it's a pink background and the ghosts have bows on their heads. | |
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In Digimon Frontier, eyelash difference is the only distinguishing feature between male and female KaratsukiNumemon. | |
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In Goblins, all female humanoids have an hourglass figure. Goblins, however, don't typically have hair on their heads, and it is not considered an attractive trait. Complains, however, finds those that do have head hair to be absolutely gorgeous. | |
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Dragon Ball Z has the invading Saiyans Vegeta and Nappa visit a planet inhabited by sentient bugs. The only female bug shown on screen is bright pink, but otherwise indistinguishable from the male bugs. Speaking of the Saiyans it's shown that female Saiyans e.g Goku's mom Gine had a skirt on her Battle amour and Fasha from Bardock's squad has a pink Leotard of Power. Android 18 looking so similar to 17 has visible eyelashes on her eye lids but aside from that (and clothes) looks basically the same. |
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In 9, all of the stitchpunks are artificial lifeforms with no defining characterisitcs, but 7 has a female voice. Other than that, she shows no feminine habits of dress; if anything, her birdskull helmet and militant stance are so stereotypically male as to create a Samus Is a Girl effect when 7 first speaks. The only notable difference is that her fingers are shown to be smaller than 9's. | |
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Zero Punctuation features red bows on female imps. | |
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Female characters from Rurouni Kenshin have longer eyelashes and shinier irises. | |
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One Minute Fly: The female fly seen in the first video and "Happy Valentine's Day" is depicted with prominent eyelashes and large, red lips. | |
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UglyDolls: Wage, unlike Moxy (listed above), has no defining feminine features. This is due to being a Gender Flip of the original toyline's Wage, who was a male character. Similar to Wage, Wedgehead is another male character in the movie flipped to be a female one, with no defining features, save for her voice. However, she is colored bright yellow in the movie, compared to the dark blue that her male toyline counterpart is. |
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Housepets! has Peanut Butter helping Grape prepare for a date, revealing what he'd done with a mirror. | |
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In all versions of The Moomins, the distinguishing sexual characteristics of Moomins seems to be largely limited to what clothes (if any) they wear. Snorkmaiden has her trademark hairstyle though. In the original books, Snorks and Moomins are different species, so to speak. And the white skin, incidentally, is fur - and Snorks can actually change the colour of theirs (though that was hastily forgotten after the first book Snorkmaiden and her brother appeared in). Averted for The Groke and Too-Ticky, who are female but have practically no gender clues. Several Finns have been surprised to find out the characters are female, as Finnish doesn't have gendered pronouns to point this out. In the books, The Groke wears skirts (yeah, thats not her skin). Though so does Hemulen... Surely that averts the trope, then, because the book explicitly states that the Hemulen inherited that dress from HIS aunt. |
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Fruit Incest mostly averts this. Nelly looks exactly like Wally but with a horn. Dahlia has long eyelashes, but that's more to do with her personality than anything else. Also inverted with Molo and Zeke. They're both male, but Zeke has a feminine tuft of hair, curlier whiskers, and lighter colored fur. |
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Also seen on Friends, when Rachel sticks a pink bow on Emma's head because everyone keeps saying, "What a cute little boy!" While Amy goes one step further in getting the baby's ears pierced. | |
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In Oddbods, all of the female Oddbods are given a strip of eyelashes that matches the color of their jumpsuit. This also includes the generic background Oddbods, which gives the female ones an extra feature that the male ones do not, as all the background ones are simply in grey jumpsuits with no special antenna. | |
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Bruce Coville's Rod Allbright Alien Adventures series features a female alien with no real sexual characteristics the human protagonist could recognize except for her voice, but even then he wasn't sure at first. (For an added bonus, one of the other aliens is neither male nor female and asks to be referred to by the pronoun "it".) | |
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In Stuart Little, the fluffy white cat, Snowbell, is male and voice acted by Nathan Lane. | |
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In Osomatsu-san, multiple female incarnations and counterparts to the Matsunos have some characteristic that makes them stand out. The Girlymatsus had eyelashes and some wore lipstick among other changes, while other skits had a brother put on a feminine costume and wig. The straightest example are the female lookalikes from the Season 3 opener, who look exactly like the brothers save for distinct hairstyles and skirts. | |
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In Gremlins 2: The New Batch, one Gremlin gets into a potion that turns it female, resulting in long hair, a garish makeup job, and streetwalker clothes. | |
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Sylvanian Families figures are exactly the same whether male or female. The only way to tell them apart is from their clothes; boys wear various dungarees and shorts while girls wear dresses with flowers and bows. You can swap clothes without noticing the difference. There are four families with horns or tusks; however there are currently at least 61 families, and more if you count family members that only come individually in accessory sets. | |
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OI4k members Irish Airborne and Sami Callihan are represented by a skull missing its lower jaw and crossbones. Nevaeh is a member too with the same symbol, only with a pink bow tied around the bones. | |
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Pretty straightforward in Mountain Time, where females always wear skirts. They also have hair much more often than males. | |
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Happy Heroes: The bare minimum that is done to distinguish female characters is adding visible eyelashes to them, such as with Sweet S. for example. There are some characters with other feminine features such as lipstick, though. | |
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The Rescuers Down Under: Apart from her name, Joanna the Goanna has nothing that indicates she is female, due to her lack of gendered features and ability to speak. Marahute, a female golden eagle, has a more realistic design compared to other animals in the movie, and thus lacks any typical feminine traits. Much like Joanna, she is incapable of human speech as well. |
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