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Viewer Gender Confusion
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You have been watching this series for a while, be it since childhood or since yesterday. You are just in the middle of an exciting scene where Miss Lovecuddles reveals that she was actually behind everything that… wait a minute, Mister? Lovecuddles is a guy? Congratulations, you've just become a happy victim of Viewer Gender Confusion! Sometimes this is because a cheap dub uses badly Cross-Dressing Voices, sometimes because the language you're enjoying your story in doesn't have gender differentiated pronouns, or because they have a name rarely used for that gender, or it was clear from the beginning and you were just holding the Idiot Ball for the day and missed it fabulously. Compare She's a Man in Japan (where the character's gender actually was changed while adapting), Bifauxnen, Samus Is a Girl, Alien Gender Confusion (where this happens in-universe to members of different species), Female Monster Surprise (where you are expected to be mistaken at first) and Ambiguous Gender Identity (where the character's sex is (probably) known but their gender isn't). Contrast (or compare?) Dude Looks Like a Lady or Lady Looks Like a Dude when it's other characters who are confused. See also Ambiguous Gender for characters who have no canonically stated gender, and Viewer Species Confusion for when it happens to an animal or other non-human character. May be solved with the use (or lack) of Tertiary Sexual Characteristics. Can be seen as the viewer-perspective version of Unsettling Gender-Reveal. Anything that makes the character's sex obvious may act as a Gender Reveal. Can overlap with Viewer Name Confusion. |
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Buster from Buster Brown was boyish in the 1900s but his pageboy haircut and clothes (which are sometimes pink) make him more androgynous to modern audiences. | |
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Zom-B by Darren Shan: One of the two big twists at the end of the first book is that main character B Smith is a girl. The book had done a damn good job of leading the reader to believe otherwise, from the fact that most of B's friends are boys to the illustrations always showing her from behind (with a slim build and shaved head.) | |
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The titular character is sometimes mistaken for a boy. Part of this confusion may stem from the fact that the original Donkey Hodie from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was male. | |
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Shadow's Chao Jazz from Shadamy Comic is female, but she's a Shadow Chao so she looks just like her male owner. | |
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Lamb Chop's Play-Along: Lamb Chop is sometimes mistaken for a boy, due to her lack of Tertiary Sexual Characteristics and the fact that her "brothers" Charlie Horse and Hush Puppy are both boys. The segments showing her as a baby avert this, though, since there she wears a pink onesie and a headband with a pink bow. | |
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A milder form of this occurs in Honor Harrington. The Royal Manticoran Navy has nearly 50-50 gender equality, and many characters are referred to as their title, i.e. Admiral, Captain, Exec., etc. To compound this, many of the women are given masculine nicknames, like Michelle becoming "Mike", while some men are given female nicknames, such as a Gervais becoming "Gwen". You may need to take notes. Possibly compounding the issue is the fact—never explicitly stated—that almost any character, when talking about someone of unknown gender, will use their own pronoun (i.e., men call unknowns "he" while women call them "she"). Maybe more of Translator's Gender Confusion, but in Polish translation (where gender pronouns are everywhere) Patricia Givens was a man for two books because she was always referred to as "admiral Givens" or "Pat". |
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X-Wing Rogue Squadron: Xarcce Huwla is an alien Tunroth, making her big, muscular, and with a very inhuman face. Since these comics were drawn with minimal concern for Fanservice, even when sparring in tight clothing◊ (Xarcce Huwla wearing red in the picture) her body is easily taken for male, and since she's largely out of focus pronouns only come up a few times. It's much the same with Ibtisam the Mon Calamarian, who looks almost exactly like (male) Admiral Ackbar if you discount her having light blue skin instead of red. | |
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My Little Pony: Mainly thanks to the cartoon adaptation many ponies were considered male, such as Gusty or Applejack. There are some collectors who played with the toys as kids in the 80s who still insist 20+ years later Applejack was male; it wasn't too unknown to see debates on it in the 2000s. G1 is mainly known for being almost entirely made up of mares and fillies but males existed, most popularly the Big Brother Ponies. They're not that much masculine from the females, the only real difference having fetlocks and being associated with 'masculine' roles (American football, pirates, sailing, etc). They come in pastel pinks and yellows and have have long eyelashes. Kingsley is a lioness with a mane and masculine name. Most people consider her male but everything official states otherwise. Prince Firefly from G2 is purple and shares the name of the most famous Pony until G4. But he's not called "prince" for nothing. Prism Glider, a background pony from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, is clearly a stallion in the show and on his collector's card, but his blind bag figure uses the standard female Pegasus mold (as opposed the male design used for Thunderlane, Flash Sentry, etc.). Likewise, Neon Lights' blind bag toy is a palette swap of Vinyl Scratch/DJ PON-3. |
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Breeze Rider from Dusk's Dawn is a boy. A cursory glance at the works trope page will show you how difficult it is for the audience to pick up on that. | |
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Sesamstraat, the Dutch version of Sesame Street features a blue Big Bird called Pino, who started out being played by a man. When he retired a woman got the role, there was actually some debate among the creators about whether they should make the bird a pink girl and rename her Pina. In the end they chose gender confusion over gender bending. | |
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In RWBY, the character Robyn Hill was initially presumed by viewers to be a Pretty Boy in early cameos of her in the posters depicted in the fist episode of the seventh volume, due to her being created with a male character model in Maya. Moreso with her henchwoman, Joanna, who is taller, possibly the tallest woman in the cast, and has short hair. |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW): Before Dust Devil was confirmed to be non-binary with they/them pronouns in a tweet, many fans assumed they were male due to their angular muzzle, and because they weren't referred to any third-person pronouns at all in the arc's first two issues. | |
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Infinity Nado Pandora despite his appearance and name is actually a boy. In fact, many viewers often think that Pandora is the "girlfriend of the main character Jin" due to their closeness and occasional tensions that greatly resembles your traditional Ship Tease dynamic with male and female characters. This can also be said for Eli and even Jin to some extent due to their haircuts (with Eli even wearing a red headband) and being voiced by women in the original as they are young/adolescent boys. There are other feminine characters such as Temperance from seasons one and three and Yintian (a child who accompanies the Indian Hunter God in season two) who have occasionally used male pronouns (with Temperance once using female pronouns in season one) in the original series though they can also be categorized in the Ambiguous Gender tropes as their genders were never explicitly stated. |
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For a long time, half of the Harry Potter fandom thought Blaise Zabini was a girl, since he's just a name until book 6. (Specifically, a name which is masculine in Europe but usually feminine in the United States.) Some who wanted more Slytherin girls used "her" extensively as an O.C. Stand-in in Fan Fic. It's now known that "she's" a he. | |
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Zoe and Wren in Baby Blues. Shortly after the first comics of Baby Blues, Zoe was given three hairs on her head, so as not to make viewers think she's a boy. One comic had people calling Zoe a "boy", with Darryl repeatedly telling them she's a girl. Wren (a girl, not a boy) took this to the next level. Smart Practice's recall card description says "Full-color dental postcard features little Zoe explaining certain grown-up facial expressions to her baby brother, Wren.". 12 years later, Wren would later receive a redesign which now features a full set of hair instead of three, making her appearance look more like a young girl. | |
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From Kill la Kill AU, if it wasn't stated or shown to a certain degree otherwise, you probably would have thought Mako was a boy, as she has pretty short hair but, otherwise, wears a dress. Likewise, same can occur for Shiro, who, despite his masculine clothing, has something a feminine hairstyle. | |
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Heyoka, of the Whateley Universe. Heyoka used to be a girl before manifesting as a mutant who can change shape when absorbing a spirit and its power. Normally very attractive and very androgynous, Heyoka has looked very feminine, and very masculine, at different times. even the authors have trouble with the pronouns. | |
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Sesame Street Big Bird is sometimes mistaken for a girl, thanks to his high-pitched voice, his lack of Tertiary Sexual Characteristics, the show's young target audience, and the original puppeteer's Gender-Blender Name (yes, Caroll Spinney was male). Sesamstraat, the Dutch version of Sesame Street features a blue Big Bird called Pino, who started out being played by a man. When he retired a woman got the role, there was actually some debate among the creators about whether they should make the bird a pink girl and rename her Pina. In the end they chose gender confusion over gender bending. Sesamstraße, the German version also had a snail called "Fienchen" note "chen" is a German diminutive — i.e. literally means little/small, can be used in nicknames as an expression of endearment. Fienchen started out being male, but due to his "cute" name and high pitched voice, he caused so much gender confusion, they actually changed him into a girl. That's the one case where gender confusion would be appropriate. Snails are hermaphrodites. |
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Discworld Most dwarfs look male, but that doesn't mean they are. And they're rarely described as other than male, unless they're making the point, because Dwarfish only has one set of pronouns. This is expanded upon with Cherri Littlebottom, a feminist in a race where discovering the other's gender is part of the mating ritual. She would wear makeup, but refused to shave her beard because to do so would deny being a dwarf. Never really resolved in Unseen Academicals with Madame Sharn. She claims female terminology but never really a female identity, and her lover is a gay male (biologically human) dwarf. Thanks to the weird interactions between dwarf and human ideas of sexuality she could equally be male, female, transgender, or not fit cisgender terminology at all. There's a picture by Paul Kidby in Nanny Ogg's Cookbook of two bearded and armoured dwarfs with two dwarf children, one about half the size of an adult dwarf but already bearded, the other a baby with stubble. There was some discussion in the fandom as to which dwarf was the dad in this family group, until it was reprinted in one of the art books with the title "Mothers' Meeting". Many characters in Monstrous Regiment are very convincing crossdressers. |
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Krazy Kat never displayed a specific gender trait of any type, but was in an ongoing love triangle of sorts between two identifiably male characters. | |
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In What's Your Problem? E7, Wiremu has pink clothing and Girlish Pigtails. To non-Maori viewers, his name is also ambiguous.note "Wiremu" is equivalent to English "William". | |
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In the Elephant & Piggie series, it's very easy to mistakenly assume that Piggie is a boy because of her gender-neutral name (not helped by her friend Gerald having a clearly masculine name), complete lack of Tertiary Sexual Characteristics, and most of the books' back cover summaries using no pronouns for the characters, and be subsequently taken aback when you read the book where she puts on a dress for a party. | |
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YouTube comments on newer Baman Piderman episodes frequently ask if Pumkin is a girl, perhaps due to his cute, awkward nature ever since gaining a body and his actions towards Piderman, despite him being unambiguously referred to as male In-Universe. | |
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Lulu from Cream Heroes is frequently mistaken for female by fans due to his name being feminine in English. (The reason for this is all the cats have repeated phonetic syllables for names and Lulu was simply unlucky in that regard.) | |
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Diamanda Hagan's strong facial features and husky voice trip up a lot of first-time viewers, and leads to a lot of questions in the comment section as to her actual gender (for the record, she's a woman and a Butch Lesbian). | |
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Donkey Hodie: The titular character is sometimes mistaken for a boy. Part of this confusion may stem from the fact that the original Donkey Hodie from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was male. The penguin in "Squibbit" sounds and looks like a boy, but is actually female according to the official description of the episode. Not helping matters is that she lacks the eyelashes that the other female characters have. The Moustro from "Hidden Orchestra" also lacks eyelashes and has a male-sounding name, but is actually female. The Amazing Radish was confirmed in "Ruff Night" to be female, but like most of the female examples of this trope on Donkey Hodie, she lacks eyelashes. |
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In The Nostalgia Critic review of "Nickcoms", he plays a game called "Boy or Girl" with the kids from You Can't Do That on Television. | |
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Sesamstraße, the German version also had a snail called "Fienchen" note "chen" is a German diminutive — i.e. literally means little/small, can be used in nicknames as an expression of endearment. Fienchen started out being male, but due to his "cute" name and high pitched voice, he caused so much gender confusion, they actually changed him into a girl. That's the one case where gender confusion would be appropriate. Snails are hermaphrodites. | |
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Never really resolved in Unseen Academicals with Madame Sharn. She claims female terminology but never really a female identity, and her lover is a gay male (biologically human) dwarf. Thanks to the weird interactions between dwarf and human ideas of sexuality she could equally be male, female, transgender, or not fit cisgender terminology at all. | |
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Many characters in Monstrous Regiment are very convincing crossdressers. | |
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While Siobhan from Anya's Ghost does have a feminine name, it's a very obscure Irish one, and she dresses in a male school uniform, complete with necktie, for the entire story. She isn't even referred to with female pronouns until well past the halfway point of the book. | |
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In Hungarian, pronouns aren't gender based, leading generations of The Lord of the Rings readers thinking that the Witch-King was killed by Merry, not Éowyn. And coincidentally, neither the appendices nor the prophecy (No man shall kill him—it was a Hobbit!) contradicts this. But it's clear in the original. | |
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Raenef and Erutis of Demon Diary look like a girl and a guy, respectively. But, of course, it's actually the other way around. Raenef falls victim (rather literally, actually) to Dude Looks Like a Lady at one point, and Erutis rants at the artist for making her look so boyish that the readers get confused. | |
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Bear in the Big Blue House: Many have mistaken Treelo for a girl (he is brightly colored and has a feminine Elmo-like voice) and Ojo for a boy (she has no Tertiary Sexual Characteristics and a Tomboyish Voice). | |
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The first two chapters of To Kill a Mockingbird leave Scout's gender very much in question. (She's a girl.) | |
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Despite her feminine-sounding voice, Click from Between the Lions is sometimes mistaken for a boy due to her lack of eyelashes. | |
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Helluva Boss: Cletus from the episode "C.H.E.R.U.B" is sometimes confused as either non-binary or female by some, noticeably because of his eyelashes and pink color scheme, his unisex clothes and hair, and his unisex sounding voice. Despite having black horns with thin white lines which signifies a female imp, the imp servant from "The Circus" who replied to Stolas when he asked for harder liquor can be easily mistaken for male due to her gruff voice. In "Unhappy Campers", the unnamed client that orders the hit in has a very androgynous design and voice. So several viewers wound up mistaking him for a tomboy or a non-binary person despite the episode referring to the client with male pronouns. |
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A former quote on top of the page came from the RiffTrax of Jurassic Park. Weird Al repeatedly stops commenting what's actually going on in the movie to ponder what is the gender of the kid seen at the beginning of the movie (the one Grant threatens with a Raptor claw). | |
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Battle for Dream Island big time. The fact that they are objects doesn't help things either, as the only thing to go off of is voices. Lollipop, Pie and Gaty all have deeper voices, but are female. Conversely, Lightning and Cake have feminine voices, but are distinctly male. |
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In The Guild, Bladezz's pre-adolescent sister has long hair, but it just makes her look even more like her brother. She has a husky voice for a girl and is first seen wearing a baseball cap and rather gender-neutral clothing. | |
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Magic: The Gathering has some characters with canonical genders that are only made clear in the supplementary fiction or on the flavor text of cards that only mention them rather than depict them. For example, Zada (a spindly goblin bent under a giant grinding mortar) and Grist (a skeleton covered in bugs) are feminine, and Rocco (a masculine-looking elf in a chef's uniform) is nonbinary. The Ancestor (the deity worshiped by The Order in Odyssey and Onslaught blocks) is only referred to with feminine pronouns on a single card. | |
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Dorothy of Oz: Tail looks feminine, has long hair, has feminine eyelashes, and his personality fits the Genki Girl archetype. It doesn't help that he appears to have a Sarashi affect with his shirt and give him a "boost". Mara can provoke fan-confusion, due to her short hair and somewhat gender-neutral appearance. |
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While this was less true in the early days, post-'80s, some people begun to mistake Peppermint Patty from Peanuts due to a mixture of Schultz drawing her with shorts (rather than a skirt, to illustrate that she is a tomboy), longer hair on younger boys becoming more acceptable than it was in the '50s and '60s, Marcie always calling her "Sir", as well as her being voiced by an actual boy in the specials, Patty has been mistaken for a boy later on. This has, however, still contributed to a few popular theories about her and Marcie's relationship. Happens In-Universe too, with one series of comics having her get a boy's haircut from Charlie Brown's dad thinking she was a boy. | |
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Max, from the Maximum Ride series. Considering that the book is written entirely in first person and her masculine name, it's no wonder. It's not clear at all that she's female until at least about fifty pages into The Angel Experiment, when she is finally referred to with a female pronoun. | |
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In The Adventures of Little Carp Aoqi the seahorse often gets mistaken as a female due to his pink coloring and feminine poses. In addition Bubbles, the main character, also often gets confused to be female due to the constant comparison to him and his grandmother. They are even voiced by women in the original but some languages actually have them being voiced by full-grown men. | |
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Swear Not By The Moon: Due to Cassandra going by the title of Prince, many readers thought that she was Gender Flipped in this fic. In actuality, she is still female but goes by that title. | |
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Prism Glider, a background pony from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, is clearly a stallion in the show and on his collector's card, but his blind bag figure uses the standard female Pegasus mold (as opposed the male design used for Thunderlane, Flash Sentry, etc.). Likewise, Neon Lights' blind bag toy is a palette swap of Vinyl Scratch/DJ PON-3. | |
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Nerris from Camp Camp was mistaken for a young boy by several people watching the trailer due to her boyish clothes and hairstyle, with her most girlish feature (the eyelashes) being easy to miss. Even when she actually speaks in the show proper, her female voice actress could be mistaken for a case of Crossdressing Voices and the first line that establishes her gender is easily misable due to being said at the same time as another line. She's even this in-universe in the episode "Egg Benefits", when Cameron Campbell falters on whether to call her a mom or a dad. | |
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Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Many people thought Jonie is a boy goat, due to her voice and being a tomboy. Wilie's Cutesy big eyes and higher voice probably makes him seem more like a female. Little Fairy's gender is still technically unknown, but it looks more like a lady. |
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Warrior Cats: Warriors suffers from the authors being confused. The series has several writers and tons of characters (over a thousand, mostly composed of extras and bit characters). Many characters suddenly change pronouns between books or even within the same book. For example, as a kit and an apprentice Sedgewhisker was male but she turned female once she became a warrior. Rushtooth's gender keeps on getting mixed up. Rushtooth is introduced as a female but gets called "he" and "him" a few times afterwards. Fans don't know what gender to identify them as, though the unofficial Wiki went with male. |
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Happy Tree Friends: Flaky is thought to be a boy because, unlike Giggles and Petunia, Flaky doesn't have eyelashes but is given a distinct feminine voice, it shows neutral characteristics for any gender but the voice actor suggests female, even the creators are undecided. It's even lampshaded a few times. Cuddles can even be mistaken for female by some who are watching the show for the first time. Sniffles too. This is largely attributed to his voice actress. |
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In The Cosmere, the first time Bavadin was referred to, it was without a gender pronoun. Maybe because it was in the same sentence as (confirmed to be male) Rayse, but for the next two years, everyone was confident that Bavadin was a man until Arcanum Unbounded explicitly said "she". Also, Word of God has muddied the waters since, implying that Bavadin's gender is a bit more complicated than usual, leading to some debate over the proper pronouns, though most fans stick with "she". | |
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In the original Winnie the Pooh books Christopher Robin wears flowing blouses and has medium length hair. While this may have been unisex looking or even masculine in the 1920s, to modern audiences he's easily mistakable for a girl. The more well-known Disney incarnation averts this. | |
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Many non-Brazilian fans have confused the titular protagonist of Monica's Gang to be a boy due to her short haircut and the lack of any Tertiary Sexual Characteristics in her design. The fact that her dress looks like an oversized t-shirt doesn't help either. | |
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If you're well-informed enough to know that the Groke of the Moomin series is female, try figuring out Thingumy and Bob, or the Fillyjonk's children from the anime. Too-ticky can also be misleading because of her appearance, but it's pretty clear she's a woman. Too-ticky is at least partly based on Jansson's sculptor girlfriend, which may account for her relative butchness. In the original Swedish, the Groke is called MÃ¥rran which manages to sound both feminine and threatening. Thingummy and Bob wear dresses, and in the original are named Tofslan and Vifslan—so there is no "Bob" to confuse people. (Their particular way of speaking is an in-joke on the lingo Jansson and her first girlfriend, Vivica Bandler, used. "Tove" and "Vivica" become "Tofslan" and "Vifslan" when you speak like that...) The whole plot about the Ruby and the Groke is a metaphor for them having to hide their relationship back in the days homosexuality was still a crime and taboo in Finland. |
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Sketchbook from Don't Hug Me I'm Scared has a voice somewhere between a prepubescent boy and a young woman, has rainbow colored "hair", and is a talking sketchbook. The character's gender is unconfirmed officially, though has been portrayed as female in fanon . | |
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