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* June from ''[[Coyote Ragtime Show]]''. She's the knife-fighter.

* Pictured above: Oscar from ''[[Rose of Versailles]]'' is the archetypal example, more or less cribbed from the ''otokoyaku'' (boytype) stereotype of the real-life [[Takarazuka]] Revue performers. ''The Rose of Versailles'' just happens to be one of their most famous performances.

** Haruka Tenou (Sailor Uranus) is modeled on a real-life [[Takarazuka]] character. While this is less emphasized after her introduction in the comic, it made her very distinctive in promotional materials by adding some variety, and eventually [[Character Exaggeration|became her major character trait]] in the show adaptation.

** The Sailor Starlights from the final season also qualify under this trope, although the original mundane explanation seems inexplicably avoided.

** Ukyou, but only around the time of her introduction. From the moment she puts aside her grudge with Ranma and Genma, she gets girlier as the series progresses.

** Likewise, Ryuunosuke from ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'', Ukyou and [[Gender Bender|Ranma]]'s [[Expy|authorical ancestor]].

* Megumi from ''[[Tenshi na Konamaiki]]'' is an unusual subversion as she was turned ''into'' a girl, and despite being unusually skilled at grooming herself, is mistaken for a one for her rough speech.

* Maggie from ''[[Read or Die|ROD The TV]]'' is very tall with a husky voice, yet at the same time [[Shrinking Violet|very shy and withdrawn.]]

* ''[[Hellsing]]'':

** Sir Integra. Back when most people's exposure to ''Hellsing'' came through the TV series, [[Viewer Gender Confusion|some people were genuinely confused as to her gender]], despite a flashback episode in which, as a young girl, she is clearly shown wearing female clothing. The manga and OVA actually begin with this flashback, making such confusion nigh on impossible.

** Both Setsuna and Kaede wear men's-style suits fairly often in the Magical World arc, [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v28/c258/7.html even to a formal ball]. However, nobody has confused Kaede with a man.

* Yagyu Kyubei from ''[[Gintama]]'' is an unusual example - she exemplifies this trope, but not on accident; she was [[Raised as the Opposite Gender|raised as a male]]. Otae says Kyubei was "born with a woman's body, but a man's heart".

* Both Yayoi and Lin from ''[[Kure-nai]]''. It's no wonder that they always end up fighting each other.

* Kiri from ''Never Give Up!'' ended up with the looks of her father. Furthermore, to follow her love interest, she gets hired as a ''male'' model.

* ''Ice Revolution'' - tomboy Masaki is getting tired of constantly being mistaken for a boy (her short [[Anime Hair]], preference for tracksuits, masculine speaking style, aggressive nature, amazing strength and fighting skills, in-denial dojo-owning father and two brothers, one of whom [[Half-Identical Twins|looks just like her]] don't help) gets inspired by ''figure skating'' after trying to find the only boy who's seen her in a girl's uniform in order to thank him after he [[Crash Into Hello|saves her from a truck]]. Unfortunately the coach who discovers her believes he's found the next great ''male'' figure skater. It takes another two chapters before that's cleared up and {{spoiler|a [[Wholesome Crossdresser]] gives her beauty advice}}.

* ''[[Oniisama e...]]'' has Rei Asaka and Kaoru Orihara; Rei usually wears a black suit with lacy shirt while Kaoru's clothes tend to be almost vaguely unisex.

* Kana, the [[Wrench Wench]] from ''[[Haibane Renmei]]''. She dresses in a boy's uniform and her voice is low enough in tone to be passable for either gender, and every so often someone asks about "him". These aspects of her, however, are only lightly touched upon in the anime.

* ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'': Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV. See [[Cowboy Bebop at His Computer]] for the confusion that resulted from her character design.

* Shadow in ''[[Godannar]]'' manages to cross the line all the way to "are you ''sure'' she's not a man?" despite having an obviously female body. This is because she manages to be one of the few pilots {{spoiler|to contract the Insania Virus, which is supposed to primarily affect ''men''.}}

* After ''years'' of doing the opposite in ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'', Hirohiko Araki finally dropped the reverse Bridget on us with {{spoiler|Hot Pants}} in Steel Ball Run. It makes her Stand power, {{spoiler|the flesh-spraying Cream Starter}} surprisingly fitting.

*** Brought up more directly in a sketch where Hungary dons a nice male outfit, ties her hair in a ponytail and strikes a [[Knight in Shining Armor]] pose for a Liechtenstein with [[Long Hair Is Feminine|long hair]] and a cute [[Pimped-Out Dress]].

*** Again brought up in ''[[Hetaween 2011]]'' when she dons a prince-like cosplay. [[Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy|And ropes her boyfriend Austria into wearing a dress and being her "princess".]]

** ''[[Hetaween 2011]]'' also has Ukraine donning the looks, when she cosplays as the Mad Hatter in the Slavi/Baltic group. Liech also dresses up in boyish clothes again, this time cosplaying as the son of Wilhelm Tell while her brother Switzerland is Wilhelm Tell himself.

* ''[[W Juliet]]'': You would never know Miura Ito was a girl unless she told you, especially at the beginning of the manga. Likewise, [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|her boyfriend Makoto makes a gorgeous woman]], to the point where {{spoiler|all of his male classmates are in denial when they find out the truth at the end of the manga.}} Ito is constantly given male roles in the school drama club (their teacher is apparently a huge Takarazuka fan), and the one time she was cast as the female lead it was supposed to be a comedy version of Swan Lake, with Makoto as the hansom prince.

* Jun of ''[[Saki (manga)|Saki]]''. Short hair, dress shirt and tie, husky voice, usage of male first-person pronouns, and a tall, lean figure? [[Viewer Gender Confusion|Even some viewers]] were thrown off by this despite her presence in an all-girl tournament.

* Believe it or not, Sakura Kinomoto pulled this off at least once in ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]''. Most noticeably in the [[School Play]] where she was cast as the Prince and donned a boyish outfit ''really'' well.

* [[Idol Singer|Sheryl Nome]] from ''[[Macross Frontier]]'' does this for some of her concerts as a costume while singing (and cleans up quite well). Is quite [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] considering her love interest [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|"Princess" Alto]].

* There's a oneshot manga called ''Kuroneko Guardian'' where a young singer is given a bodyguard. She's dressed as a boy because "it'd be easier to work if people didn't know she was a girl".

* Haruka Hiroko in the second story of ''Himitsu Kichi''.

** The novel on which the film is based was written by Virginia Woolf, writing it as a fictionalised biography for the author-poet Vita Sackville-West, with whom she had an affair. Vita's son would later describe it as "the longest and most charming love-letter in literature".

** Also a feature in many of Tilda's glamour shots. There are several which try to make half of her look like a woman and half of her look like a man. It's strangely attractive.

* [[Tomboyish Name|Johnny]] (Jane Birkin) from ''Je T'aime Moi Non Plus''. She ends up giving the gay protagonist Krassky (Joe Dallesandro) a major case of [[Stupid Sexy Flanders]] after subjecting him to an [[Unsettling Gender Reveal]].

* [[Cate Blanchett]] playing... er... "not Bob Dylan" ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]) in ''[[I'm Not There]]''. [[Fetish Fuel]] ensued. Suffice it to say that Cate makes a rather hot guy. The fact that her voice is very much on the huskier end of the scale helped.

* [[Chloe Sevigny]] from [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206036/ If These Walls Could Talk 2]

* Imogen Stubbs, as Viola/Cesario in the 1996 adaptation of ''[[Twelfth Night]]''. Olivia's infatuation is ''completely'' understandable...

* A short-haired Keira Knightley is mistaken for a boy (and to be making out with the female protagonist) in one scene in ''[[Bend It Like Beckham]]''. ([[Even the Girls Want Her|*happy sigh*]]) Although the character is traditionally feminine in some ways, her sportiness, preference for trousers at all times, and lack of interest in enhancing her cleavage create a boyish aura around her (contributing to her mother's suspicions that she's gay).

* [[Noomi Rapace]] as [[The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo|Lisbeth Salander]] is another dark example.

* Laure from ''[[Tomboy (film)|Tomboy]]'' is androgynous looking. She's able to pass herself off as a boy, and even normally she looks like a boy.. It helps that she's only ten, so a haircut and boys clothes is really all she needs to pass as male.

== Literature ==

* In ''Mona Lisa Overdrive'' by [[William Gibson]], Kumiko muses that [[Action Girl|Molly]] greatly resembles the stereotype of the Japanese bishonen: "elegant, deadly and fey."

* {{spoiler|Kitai}} from Jim Butcher's [[Codex Alera]], partly to do with the fact that she's an underage Marat with vaguely boyish features (until they come of age, Marat wear baggy tunics and aren't acknowledged to actually have any biological sex except in the academic sense). Tavi doesn't much care for her initially, because she was kind of hostile for little apparent reason, but once he realizes she's a girl, he starts to notice she's kind of pretty.

== Live Action TV ==

== Video Games ==

* ''[[Bloodline Champions]]'' has the Nomad bloodline's Officer outfit. There's has cleavage on her, but otherwise looks very androgynous. There's a piercing under their lip which one could mistake for a soul patch.

* King from ''[[The King of Fighters]]''. She dressed as a man in the original ''[[Art of Fighting]]'', due to an incident regarding her gender and childhood training in Muay Thai. In that game, she is presented as asexual (besides baring her bra if beaten with a super move), but future games acknowledge her true gender. She continues to dress is masculine clothing in all her later appearances, though; the closest concession to her actual gender, clothing-wise, is wearing a dress in her ending in ''The King of Fighters XI''.

* ''[[Fate/stay night]]'': Saber, having been stopped in her natural growth at around the age of fifteen, can and has posed as a man several times, although a very [[Bishonen]] man. However, it's also implied that she's been under a genuine [[Gender Bender]] spell at times in her backstory.

** She dresses in more contemporary menswear in ''[[Fate/Zero]]'', a sharp, formal black suit. Irisviel fixates on what a handsome protector Saber makes, and contemplates what a beautiful couple they make when she's escorted in public by her. Kiritsugu's partner Maiya also dresses rather austere and masculine, and keeps her hair short.

* Kumatora from ''[[Mother 3]]''. A little kid mistakes her for a boy at one point.

* Jill from ''[[Mighty Jill Off]]''. Even more so in her appearance in ''Super [[Meat Boy]]''.

* Danish model Freja Beha Erichson, who [http://sin-stuff.com/lgbt/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Freja-Beha-purple-nude.jpg embodies androgyny]. (Link not worksafe.)

* Daniela Sea, [http://www.hellagood.de/imgs/dsbw.jpg actress and musician]. Portrayed Max, a transman, on [[The L Word]].

* [[Janelle Monae]], the [[Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly|genre-blurring]] [[Genki Girl]] singer, is rarely seen without her proper tux and a white starched shirt. It also helps her bifauxnen image that she has what can only be described as "epic hair."

* [[Mitsuki Saiga]], whose deep voice means the female characters she voices also tend to be Bifauxnens as well.