Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism: Difference between revisions

* ''[[ROM Spaceknight|Rom Spaceknight's]]'' enemies the Dire Wraiths come in two flavors: the technology-using males, who look like ugly, fanged, gangly-limbed Pillsbury Doughboys; and the sorcery-using females, who are pure [[Starfish Alien|Starfish Aliens]].

* In the pre-Crisis version of the Vega system, one world's male inhabitants look very much like humans. The females look like giants snails. To quote the gamebook, "This seems to work for them."

* Male Warlocks from ''[[Nemesis the Warlock]]'' walks on a pair of goat-esque hooves, while female have centaur-like bodies.

 

* Theodore Sturgeon's "The World Well Lost" centers on a pair of fugitive "[[Yaoi Guys|loverbirds]]" from the planet Dirbanu, which has shunned contact with Earth. The loverbirds are initially assumed to be a male and female, but they manage to explain, via some illustrations, that male and female Dirbanu are vastly different in appearance. In fact, the main reason why the Dirbanu dislike humans is due to homophobia, because they perceive all human relationships as being homosexual.

* The Cygnans in the novel ''The Jupiter Theft'' had human-sized females and insect-like parasitic males that were permanently attached to the females.

** However, ancient Kzinti females ''were'' entirely sentient -- their current state is the result of intentional breeding for unintelligent women, with the help of genetic engineering technology. That's what happens when you uplift a bronze age species.

*** Strangely enough, Kzinti (in Man-Kzin Wars) consider the human sexes to be separate alien species, based on behavioral differences. A human female (Manrrett) is considered to have apparently faster reflexes, higher pain tolerance, and greater intellectual insight, than a human male (Man).