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{{quote|"Shrouded in odd clothing<br />

"...is this a man...?<br />

"...a woman...?<br />

"...or should we ask...?"|'''Gogo's introduction''' in ''[[Final Fantasy VI (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VI]]''}}

The technical term for this kind of person is "androgyne", from the Greek for "man-woman", if you care. Used as an adjective it's "androgynous". And to answer your question: yes. It is a gender identity. It should be noted, that this person’s sex may not correlate to their gender, if they even have one.

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* ''[[Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin]]'' gives us Pink Dragon. Fans believed that he was female for ''years'' ([https://web.archive.org/web/20130605101605/http://www.gingasite.net/ginga_board/index.php?showtopic=422 Not that we can really blame them]) until it was discovered that [[All There in the Manual|Meteor Gin, the series' info book, very, very heavily implies that the wolf in question is actually male]].

*** The dub has Medusa refer to Crona as "my child" or "[["It" Is Dehumanizing|it]]" to avoid any gender orientation. Likewise, all the other characters say Crona's name and never refers to Crona by he, she, him, or her.

* [[media:yubel_5845yubel 5845.jpg|Yubel]] in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]''. No body except a demonic arm, uses 'boku' and initially primarily a female voice. Then, Yubel starts shifting from a female to a male voice and back, and also mixes that in with the voice of the host's. Characters also refer to him/her as, well, him and her. The answer, of course, is that Yubel is a hermaphrodite human/spirit fusion... living being. And we're not counting {{spoiler|their past self}}...

* The ''[[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon]]'' anime is one of the most notable examples, as most of the mons belonging to characters in the anime do not have their gender confirmed unless it is important to the plot of the story. Further complicating the issue (or the [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Isshu]]) are the ones that only have confirmed genders in one language. After that, viewers have to deal with whether to use male or female pronouns for the officially non-gendered mons (Ditto, Shedinja, a couple Steel-types, and most legendaries), as even the dubs have used genders in some cases.

** The fancomic ''[[And Shine Heaven Now (Webcomic)|And Shine Heaven Now]]'' continued this tradition for Heinkel until recently, where it's revealed {{spoiler|Heinkel's [[Hermaphrodite|intersexed]]}}.

* Edward in ''[[Cowboy Bebop (Anime)|Cowboy Bebop]]'' is introduced like this. Male name, lanky but with prepubescent features, typically dresses in a baggy white shirt and biker shorts (when in a dress, the effect is... ''sort of'' like drag). Regardless of attire, characters are often visibly confused, as Ed's [[Cloudcuckoolander|behavior]] and voice reveal only childlike androgyny. In Ed's introductory episode, the ambiguity is resolved in the very last line, as we cut to an external shot of the ship while Faye wrestles with her:

{{quote| "Hey, you're a '''girl'''?!"}}

*:* Edward herself confirms her gender in [[The Movie]]

* Envy from ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (Mangamanga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]''. While the gender is eventually revealed in the [[Fullmetal Alchemist (Animeanime)|2003 anime]] ({{spoiler|in which he was originally male}}), and turns out to [[No Biological Sex|not be really applicable in the manga]], Envy's androgynous 'normal' appearance, and being a [[Shape Shifter]], left it ambiguous for quite some time.

* Otto during ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Strikers|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS]]''. As revealed in the [[Comic Book Adaptation|supplementary manga]], even most of her fellow [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|Numbers]] were unsure if Otto was a male or a female, with the few who knew being told to keep quiet about it by [[Smug Snake|Quattro]]. Eventually revealed to be female, though Seven Arcs continues to play up her ambiguous gender by, for example, excluding her from the Numbers' [[Fan Service]] [[The Merch|posters]].

* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' gives us the Innovators {{spoiler|AKA Innovades, a group of [[Artificial Human|Artificial Humans]]s, most of which are either sexless or genderless according to the people who made the show (excepting Anew, who's completely female)}}.

** {{spoiler|S/he's been revived by the [[Big Bad]] and is going to probably get some screentime fighting. Comparing chest size with the known female Jinchuriki next to him/her, it seems that Fuu (the 7 tails host) is either a flat chested woman or a very effeminate male, which isn't that big of a stretch with this show}}.

* Oyashiro-sama from ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni (Visual Novel)|Higurashi no Naku Koro Nini]]''. In the anime it's referred to as male. In the sound novels, as female {{spoiler|due to the fact they're talking about Hanyuu who very much sounds female, and ''is'' female}}. Its statue is very gender neutral too, in a religious way.

* ''[[Prunus Girl]]'': Aikawa says he's a guy on a regular basis and ''still'' ends up ambiguous--heambiguous—he's really good at playing a girl, periodically hinting at [[Recursive Crossdressing]] and inviting Maki to personally confirm his gender.

* Mr. 2 Bon Kurei from ''[[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]'' apparently thinks that he falls under this category, although he isn't very feminine looking (aside from the makeup and tutu). Emporio Ivankov and his Newkama army come a little closer by being able to change genders whenever he feels like it.

** And now {{spoiler|Aruka who is called sister by Killua and brother by Illumi to add to the confusion.}}.

* Grell from ''[[Black Butler]]''. There's still discussion on whether or not s/heshe's a transsexualtransgender or just flamboyant gay.

** [[Word of God]] is that she's a transsexualTransgender, and Grell makes that quite apparent.

* New Zealand from [[Axis Powers Hetalia (Manga)|Axis Powers Hetalia]]. [[Teasing Creator|Himaruya]] takes all the advantage he can of this.

{{quote| '''Fans''': Is NZ a boy or a girl?<br />

* ''[[Wandering Son]]'' has this with a few characters due to the manga's relation to transsexualitytransgenderism. Makoto is typically seen as a [[Camp Gay]] [[Wholesome Crossdresser]] rather then athan [[Transsexualtransgender]], though there's room for debate. Takatsuki had some mixed reactions with people due to her shyness, but it's been confirmed she's a trans boy.

* In ''[[Black Lagoon (Manga)|Black Lagoon]]'' It's impossible to tell which one of Hansel and Gretel is a boy and which is the girl as they change appearances for the heck of it. It is also speculated that they were both the same gender, which one is anyone's guess.

* In ''[[Seven 07-Ghost]]'', Kuroyuri's gender has yet to be revealed. Even the other characters don't know, in which Kuroyuri will even threaten them to death whenever they ask.

* In ''[[Family Compo]]'' Shion is automatically thought of as a woman for the early chapters. Then Shion annoucesannounces the intent to go to university as a man. Shion's cousin then searches the family photo albums and realises Shion has been switching genders at every school attended. Attempts to see proof of Shion's sex has so far failed. Many fans presume Shion's sex is female (though Shion's final decision on gender is unknown).

* The King in [[Arisa (Manga)|Arisa]] is this; the official translation uses the pronoun 'he' but notes that the Japanese pronoun is gender neutral, meaning the King can be female.

* Indigo, of [[Sovereign Seven]] was said to be able to swap between male and female at will.

* {{spoiler|Brox}} in ''[[With Strings Attached (Fanfic)|With Strings Attached]]''. {{spoiler|Brox}} seems like a five-year-old child who dresses to create an impression of indeterminate gender. Turns out the body is male and the soul is female. Which explains why the Baravadans use the genderless pronoun “sar” to refer to everyone.

* Ditto with the portrayal of the archangel Gabriel in ''[[Constantine (Film)|Constantine]]'', played by a very androgynous looking [[Tilda Swinton]].

* Sadako Yamamura of ''[[The Ring|Ringu]]'' is an intersexualintersex (see below); though she appears feminine, her genetic makeup is stated differently several times throughout the films, novels and manga.

{{quote| '''Man''': Hey, miss!<br />

(Barkeeper turns around; thin lips, hard face, doesn't look pleased, maybe for the "miss", one could guess.)<br />

'''Man''': Sorry, I thought you were a woman.<br />

* The protagonists of the "queer buddy movie" ''By Hook Or By Crook'' both have ambiguous gender identity: [[Bifauxnen]], [[Transsexual|trans guystransgender]] guys, or somewhere in between?

* Briefly parodied in a scene of ''[[Mars Attacks (Film)!]]'', with the person at the press conference who asks if the Martians have two genders, like humans.

* [[The Lord of the Rings (Filmfilm)|Gimli]] on dwarf women:

{{quote|'''Gimili:''' It's "Dwarftrue you don't see many dwarf women. And in fact, they are so alike in voice and appearance that they're often mistaken for dwarf men. This in turn has given rise to the belief that there ''are'' no dwarf women and that dwarves simply pop out of holes in the ground, which is of course ridiculous."}}

**'''Aragorn:''' It's the beards.

* PK Pinkerton of ''[[The Western Mysteries (Literature)|The Western Mysteries]]''

* The Person of Indeterminate Gender from ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'', who is called "he or she" or "it" even by other members of Count Olaf's troupe, and "the overweight accomplice" by [[Lemony Narrator| Snicket.]] The closest we get to a name is "The Big One".

* ''[[Harry Potter (Literaturenovel)|Harry Potter]]'''s Blaise Zabini got a single mention in book one, which sparked years of furious debate over his or her gender. [[Fan Fiction]] summaries often stated Boy!Blaise or Girl!Blaise, each with their own set of conventions and [[Fanon]] personalities. (Boy!Blaise was often suave and Italian, Girl!Blaise often [[Heroes Want Redheads|red-haired]].)

* [[Robin Hobb]]'s ''[[Realm of the Elderlings (Literature)|Realm of the Elderlings]]'' sequence consists of three trilogies. In the ''Farseer'' trilogy we meet {{spoiler|the Fool}}, who the narrator Fitz believes is male. The ''Liveship Traders'' trilogy has a totally different dramatis personae, including the female {{spoiler|Amber}}. It's never stated that these two are the same person, but more and more clues are dropped as the trilogy progresses, and because {{spoiler|Amber advised Althea how to disguise herself as a boy}} we start to think the he/she is really female and was disguised as male in the earlier books. But in the ''Tawny Man'' trilogy, where we and Fitz are told outright that both characters are the same person, there's a section where {{spoiler|Fitz inhabits the Fool's body and can presumably tell what sex he/she is, but never tells us! Fitz implies that the fool's kind are so different from humans that neither gender is appropriate -- but then there's the Pale Woman to account for}}.

* The Angel Islington of ''[[Neverwhere]]'' is so androgynously beautiful that it has no obvious gender and is referred to as "it." A few characters do call it a "he" at some points, but always go back to calling Islington an "it," implying that they only do so because they're not used to talking about a genderless being. The narrative persists in using [["It" Is Dehumanizing|the dehumanizing "it"]], which suggests a certain [[Blue and Orange Morality|ambiguity]] about its nature.

* ''[[Discworld]]'' dwarfs look [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|very male]]. The twist is, they ''all'' look very male, and are mostly unconcerned with gender. There's a handful of known females (Gloria Thogsdaughter, <s>Cheery</s> Cheri Littlebottom, Lars Skulldrinker, {{spoiler|Dee}}, and possibly Rhys Rhysson) and one known male (Cassanunda). Beyond that, any dwarf could be either. Basically, while the sex of a dwarf can be male or female, the actual gender of most is male.

** The idea is played with in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Feet of Clay (novel)|Feet of Clay]]'', in which he introduces a dwarf keen on asserting her femininity (Cheri, above) with techniques such as makeup. However, she refuses to shave her beard because, though she is proud to be a female, she felt that doing so would be denying that she was a dwarf.

** Inverted in the case of the golem that looks over Moist von Lipwig in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Going Postal (Discworld)|Going Postal]]'' and ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Making Money|Making Money]]''. An employee who considers herself one a [[Moral Guardians]] insists that only a female can clean the women's restroom, so Moist stuck a dress on one and called it "Gladys" to keep her quiet. ItShe took itsher assigned sex to heart.

** Also in ''Discworld'', no-one knows what sex Great A'Tuin the Star Turtle is, although a lot of people are interested in finding out.<ref>Pratchet actually describes it as a male turtle in ''[[The Colour of Magic]]'', but then, he gives no indication that any citizens of Discworld know this.</ref> It's obviously heading ''somewhere'', what if it's migrating to a mating ground? Suppose it met another star turtle, would they fight or mate? If they mate, ''who's going to be on top''? Also, if A'Tuin is female, what would happen if she became pregnant? How would she lay her eggs, and what would the hatchlings do once they hatched? Would more "Discworlds" be created?

* Taken to the extreme in ''[[Iron Council (Literature)|Iron Council]]'', where one of the characters, devotee of a god of secrets, doesn't even know his/her ''own'' gender. Followers of this deity forfeit knowledge about themselves to honor their patron, and this particular priest lost knowledge of what sex he/she happened to be. Self-examination can't clarify matters, as the character is blind to his/her own body features.

* The Ra'zac, Lethrblaka, and their High Priest(ess?) from the ''[[Inheritance Cycle (Literature)|Inheritance Cycle]].''

* Nyumba in ''[[Someone Else's War (Literature)|Someone Elses War]]''. Actually, her gender is never officially stated, except that the narrator assumes she's a girl.

* One episode of ''[[Jonathan Creek (TV)|Jonathan Creek]]'' has a police officer of unknown gender. Creek and Maddy spend the episode following him/her around to find out his/her name, to see which toilets he/she uses, etc.

** The mystery was actually "solved" in a really round-about way. Fans debated endlessly about whether Pat was a man or a woman -- andwoman—and the writers never planned on revealing the character's true sex -- untilsex—until one particular sketch towards the end of Pat's run. The actress playing the character, Julia Sweeney, had been super careful throughout the series to never act in a gendered manner, but when Pat was to be kissed by another character, Sweeney instintivelyinstinctively titled her head back ever so slightly the way a woman would. When fans brought this to her attention, Sweeney said that her little goof confirmed Pat was a woman and that [[Word of God|now it was canon]].

{{quote| '''Angela''': That doctor, dude or dudette?<br />

'''Hodgins & Sweets''': I dunno.<br />

*:* Some fans have theorized that {{spoiler|Angela lied because she had thought Dr. Tanaka was male and didn't want the others to know she was wrong}}. It doesn't help that {{spoiler|Dr. Tanaka is actually played by a woman}}.

* In the original ''[[Star Trek: the Original Series (TV)|Star Trek theThe Original Series]]'' pilot episode "The Cage", the alien Talosians were played by actresses in heavy alien makeup, but their speech was dubbed over with male voices. The incongruity between their facial features and voices was intended to emphasize their alienness.

** Next Gen: Riker dated a hermaphrodite once. The hermaphrodite was being ostracised from her species' society for acting slightly like a woman instead of carefully maintaining gender ambiguous behaviour. It was an[[An aesopAesop]] about how transgendered[[Transgender]] people should be accepted as whatever gender they identify as, even if that gender is ambiguous, but with "the masses" portrayed as being ambiguous rather than divided into two definite genders.

* The sex of Hal and Lois' baby on ''[[Malcolm in Thethe Middle]]'' was kept under wraps to the point that, when the writers couldn't just keep calling it "the baby", they revealed the name as [[Tomboyish Name|Jamie]].

* The title character of ''[[Id (manhua)|Id]]'' looks like a female (especially in the early art), dresses somewhat like a man, is regularly mistaken for a woman, loudly exclaims he's a man at every point, has strange costume folds that slightly hint of cleavage, and is quite careful to never expose the chest area.

* Angels are often played as this, if not unambiguously [[Female Angel, Male Demon|female]], [[Bishonen]] or [[Pretty Boy]], though in the original texts they are always referred to as male, possibly just for convenience sake because there is no clear reason why they would even have a gender anyway.

* In ''[[Unknown Armies (Tabletop Game)|Unknown Armies]]'', any avatar of the Mystic Hermaphrodite plays this role to the hilt.; Particularlyparticularly powerful avatars are even able to switch their physical gender daily, making the question unanswerable. The Freak, godwalker of the Mystic Hermaphrodite, is ata theprime pointexample whereof neitherthis he nor she isto the rightpoint word - and indeedthat no one seems to know which gender itthey ''used'' to be, if either. The novel ''Godwalker'' reveals {{spoiler|they used to be female}}.

* Lion Ushiromiya from ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro Ni (Visual Novel)|Umineko no Naku Koro Nini]] Chiru'' has a deliberately ambiguous gender that is probably essential to the mystery itself. All the pronouns are deliberately written as ambiguous, and even the translations kept him/her perfectly ambiguous. Even the detective once wondered if he/she were a 'fairly slender boy' or a 'serious, no-nonsense girl', and when he asks Lion he/she refuses to answer him directly.

** And then there's Zepar and Furfur, twin demons who are stated to be of opposite genders, though it's never revealed which is which. They serve as a [[Greek Chorus]] in EP6 and EP7 {{spoiler|and they represent Lion and Yasu's [[Ambiguous Gender|Ambiguous Genders]], as well as Yasu's gender confusion as a whole}}.

* Quina (and by extension, most of the Qus) from ''[[Final Fantasy IX (Video Game)|Final Fantasy IX]]''. They're essentially a [[One-Gender Race|Genderless Race]].

** Often times your child has no official gender, mostly in earlier games, so you can chose its gender. It doesn't effectaffect the game, and the games don't refer to any pronouns.

* [[NiNiGHTS GHTSInto Dreams|NiGHTS]] (from [[Ni GHTSNiGHTS Into Dreams|the game of the same name]]) is a hermaphrodite and has "apparent gender" that's whatever would be appropriate for a particular viewer. It was given a British accent that sounds like a cross between a teenage girl and a little boy.

** The Dragon Child Coral of ''Summon Night 4'' is explicitly this as a direct result of [[SchrodingerSchrödinger's Gun]]. When the Dragon Child is first met, the protagonist is asked by another character what the Dragon Child's sex is. The response options are "male", "female", and "I don't know". Coral is the result of choosing the third option. [[Gameplay and Story Integration]] keeps this up as Coral ignores sex restrictions on equipment and can be used in both the Undead Ship Captain and Dryad [[Combination Attack|collaborative summons]], which requires 4 male characters and 4 female characters respectively.

* Birdo from ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics|wears a bow to signify femininity]], and was originally classified as "[[Cross DresserCrossdresser|a boy who liked to dress up as a girl]]", but the official stance on its gender [[Depending Onon the Writer|seems to vary from game to game]] ([[She's a Man In Japan|and region to region]]).

* Revan in ''[[Knights of the Old Republic (Videovideo Gamegame)|Knights of the Old Republic]]'' is never referred to in the game as male or female because {{spoiler|Revan is the player character, which can be male or female depending on the player's selection at the beginning}}. There is one line of dialogue, spoken by Juahni, that refers to Revan as female, but this was an error in the coding that missed an if/then note earlier in the game. Other characters, particularly Canderous, use male pronouns to refer to Revan -- whichRevan—which is canon, as confirmed by ''The New Essential Chronology''.

* ''[[Final Fantasy VI (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VI]]'''s Gogo, thereby introduced as:

{{quote| Shrouded in odd clothing<br />

...is this a man...?<br />

...a woman...?<br />

* [http://www.mtv.com/games/video_games/images/obsessed/gaygamer/flipbook/Flea.jpg Flea]{{broken link}} from ''[[Chrono Trigger (Video Game)|Chrono Trigger]]'':

{{quote| '''Frog''': This is no ordinary woman! Meet Flea, the magician!<br />

'''Flea''': What the...?! Hey, I'm a GUY!<br />

'''Robo''': But its exterior is that of a female...<br />

*:* This is even more in context in the DS version:

{{quote| '''Frog''': She is a powerful magician. Do not lower your guard! Flea is not the mere woman she seems.<br />

'''Flea''': Yes, yes... I'm a man, after all, right? *pout*<br />

'''Lucca''': Say what? That's a guy!?<br />

*:* ''[[Chrono Cross (Video Game)|Chrono Cross]]'' has an even more interesting example. {{spoiler|The computer program FATE is often referred to as the "Goddess of Fate", and in battle, it boasts feminine features. However, the target does say that it is male, and on top of that it had inhabited a male form for the entire game up until that point. Since it is actually a supercomputer, though, gender might be a moot point.}}

* Nergal's morphs in ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' are supposedly genderless, or maybe that's just [[Fanon]]. Gets applied to Limstella the most often, although Ephidel is probably just as ambiguous. {{spoiler|Of course, if they really ''are'' genderless, that brings up a lot of questions regarding how Sonja could operate under the delusion of being human--or, for that matter, what type of relationship Sonja and Brendan had that he could not know that there was something seriously weird about his new wife. The latter can be [[Hand Wave|Hand Waved]]d with the fact that Sonja seemed to have Brendan under some sort of enchantment, anyway.}}

* ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (Video Game)|Final Fantasy Tactics Advance]]'' also makes generic allies and enemies androgynous, with the exception of the [[One-Gender Race|Viera]]. Characters are randomly assigned male or female names, though the former seem to be more common.

* Poison in ''[[Final Fight (Video Game)|Final Fight]]''. It doesn't help that official [[Canon]] seems to change her/him all the time.

* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]]'' has Sheik, {{spoiler|who is Princess Zelda in disguise}}. However, fans are divided over whether or not {{spoiler|Zelda made herself into a man, or simply disguised herself}}. The skin-tight body suit highlights certain physical features, such as pectoral muscles and...''other'' areas. Fans of female Sheik claim this to be an armor of sorts beneath the bodysuit, despite this severely restricting her movements. The instruction manual in ''[[Super Smash Bros.|Super Smash Bros Brawl]]'' officially states Sheik's gender to be {{spoiler|female}}. Additionally, Sheik was given more {{spoiler|feminine attributes, like longer hair and an absence of frontal muscles.}} However, as the Brawl Zelda characters are based on Twilight Princess, the jury is still out on Sheik from Ocarina of Time.

* Pyro of ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]''. [[Captain Obvious|The baggy suit and the mask make it hard to tell.]] Valve seems to enjoy [[A Worldwide Punomenon|fueling the fire]].

* The [[Final Fantasy I (Video Game)|original White Mage]]. ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'', and the fact that most of the subsequent games had [[White Magician Girl]] White Mages, have helped establish the [[Fanon]] that they're female.

** Although [[Word of God]] says that in ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'' the reason White Mage's sprite isn't taken from FFI (unlike all the other initial class characters) is because FFI's White Mage sprite couldn't be female since he's obviously male post-class change.

* No one knows for sure what Seem's gender in ''[[Jak 3 Wastelander]]'' is. His/herTheir body type is ambiguous, which is amplified by the many layers of clothing and armor s/hethey wearswear. S/heThey could be male, because s/he waswere originally scripted as such.male - Daxter refers to him/herthem as 'monk boy' andwhich Seem never corrects, him.and The the trophy for rescuing him/herthem at the temple is titled "dudeDude in distressDistress". In the Spanish, Italian, German and French versions of the game, Seem is male and is voiced by a male actor. And while the official ''Jak 3'' website gives his/hertheir gender as male. But s/he could also be female, becausethey s/he isare voiced by [[Tara Strong]], the final concept art on Bob Rafei's website is titled "Seem girl merged", and the commentary and official guide refer to him/herthem as female.

* Pretty much the first thing Subaru from ''[[Sakura Taisen]] V]]'' does in the game is respond to the protagonist wondering about Subaru's gender by saying that the "difference in organs" doesn't really matter, and "Subaru is Subaru". This ambiguity persists throughout the game; for every line that hints that Subaru is really female, there's another that suggests that Subaru's really male. In the English version, characters refer to Subaru as "she" (as does Subaru on one occasion, which seems a bit out of character, but it can't be easy to translate for an ambiguously-gendered character who's also a [[Third Person Person]]); however, in the original Japanese, Subaru is never referred to by a gendered pronoun at all.

* The Magypsies in ''[[Mother 3 (Video Game)|Mother 3]]''. Since they lack a gender, theyand have rather feminine names, have feminine hair, and [[Wholesome Crossdresser|wear women's clothing despitewhile the fact that they havehaving facial hair like men]].

* Anna Hottenmeyer of [[Mr. Driller]] is a girl that can get some people to believe to make her think she's a guy (even in her normal person get-up).

* ''[[Crash Bandicoot|]]'' has Nina Cortex]] (exceptedis most of their appearances, with the exception of ''Crash of inthe Titans'' and ''Mind Over Mutants)''.

* All the dogs in ''Dogs Life'', besides Jake and Daisy. They all have [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]] and don't interact with Jake much, though you may hear a human refer to a few of them as being male or female (such as Lopez being a girl, the sheep-dog being female, and Snookie apparently being male).

* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has had much fan debate over the gender of the bronze dragon Chronormu/Chromie. Due to the dragonflights [[Theme Naming]], any name ending in -ormu is male while females are -ormi, but whenever he/shethey assumesassume a humanoid form it's always as a female gnome, and no other dragon has been shown shifting into a humanoid form of the opposite gender.

* Vestera, a [[Physical God|Vernal god/dess]] from ''[[Lusternia]]''. Appropriately, his/hertheir dominion is over illusions and dreams, so gender is less relevant anyway.

* Captain Viridian in ''[[VVVVVV (Video Game)|VVVVVV]]'' is never explicitly assigned a gender. Even when giving (somewhat less-than-fulfilling) romantic advice to a trusted member of his/hertheir crew, the issue of Viridian's gender is entirely unresolved in any capacity. The retro graphics do ultimately little to help clear anything up.

* In ''[[Journey (Video2012 Gamevideo game)|Journey]]'', the mysterious robed player character has no gender.

* Fluffy from the [[No Fourth Wall]] segments of ''[[Dan and MabsMab's Furry Adventures]]''. At one point, during 'Reader Mail', Amber receives a letter questioning what gender Fluffy is, causing Fluffy to complain that "that's too stupid, even for the readers", walking away complaining about their obliviousness... as soon as she/he/it's off-panel, Amber admits that she doesn't know either, despite having created it.

* Pippin from ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131114150703/http://www.stupidityinmagic.com/today.html Stupidity in Magic]'', the bisexual [[Author Avatar]]'s boyfriend/girlfriend. The other characters treat him as male, but admit at intervals that they're not really sure, and the happy couple's keeping mum.

* Taking cues from ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]'', elves from ''[[Murphy's Law (Webcomicwebcomic)|Murphy's Law]]'' have much less noticeable secondary sexual characteristics.

* Noah, from ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'', whom we know as a boy only because it was said and in comparison to whom Tedd doesn't look "''that'' androgynous" at all, despite this being an old [[Running Gag]].

* SPDA from [[MagicandphysicsMagic and Physics]] is ambiguous to the point the ''creator's'' don't know.

* ''[[Insecticomics]]'' has fun with this: the giant androgynous robots are whatever gender and gender role they feel like being at the time. Thrust even changed gender to female as a mocking response to Lady Jaye's complaints about gay robots--androbots—and has kept it that way ever since, though no other aspects of her personality have shifted.

* [[Gender Blender Name|Sydney Morgan]] from ''[[This Is Not Fiction (Webcomic)|This Is Not Fiction]]'' is an anonymous romance novelist who the main character has fallen in love with. He's convinced that she's female but everyone else is not so sure.

* P. Monkey, the [[Companion Cube]] character from ''[[Lonely Girl 15Lonelygirl15]]'', has been variously described as a "she", a "he" and an "it", a practice which is finally lampshaded in "I Miss Her" - Bree isn't sure whether to call P. Monkey a boy or a girl.

* In the browser RPG [[Echo Bazaar]], players can choose to play as a male, a female, or an Individual of Mysterious and Indistinct Gender, the last of which is ([[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|unsurprisingly]]) this trope. Of course, it [[Purely Aesthetic Gender|doesn't seem to affect the game much]] except for making NPCs refer to you as [[Pronoun Trouble|"sir- er, mad- er, yes"]].

* In the [[SCP Foundation]],* Agent Diogenes has been exposed to so many magical artifacts that no one has kept track of his/hertheir gender, and Diogenes refuses to tell anyone. Despite this, Diogenes' psychologist is still romantically interested in Diogenes. Unfortunately- unfortunately, he [[Cannot Spit It Out]] and Diogenes is [[Oblivious to Love]].

* [[Gorillaz (Music)|Gorillaz]] bassist Murdoc has a pet raven named Cortez. The name is masculine and Murdoc refers to it with male pronouns, but he also mentions it laying eggs. Either he or the writers [[You Fail Biology Forever|Fail Biology Forever]]. Then again, it's very hard to tell the gender of ravens, and it doesn't really matter except to other ravens.

* In Shane Acker's 9, the twins [[Single-Minded Twins|3]] [[Cute Mute|and]] [[Twin Telepathy|4]] don't have any discernable gender. While they are 8-inch-tall automatons, the other ragdolls clearly indentify as male or female, 3 and 4 are never referred to as either.

* Roger from ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]'' is an alien and always referred to as male, but is apparently able to [[Your Tomcat Is Pregnant|produce an egg]] and [[Bizarre Alien Biology|transmit it through 'kissing' someone]]. He also [[Non Mammalian Mammaries|lactates]]. It doesn't help that on one occasion, he claimed he "doesn't have a wang," yet in another episode he claims he's just really small due to steroid abuse. He's also implied to be sexually attracted to both [[Bi the Way|males and females]] at different points, [[Ambiguously Gay|has camp tendencies]] and assumes identities of both genders with his many disguises.

* The monkey in [[Ka BlamKaBlam!|Prometheus and Bob]].

* Although stated as female, Airrazor was physically ambiguous enough that when ''[[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]]'' was dubbed for a Japanese audience, her [[She's a Man In Japan|gender changed]].