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Compare [[Real Women Never Wear Dresses]], [[What Do You Mean It's Not for Little Girls?]], [[Useful Notes/The Bechdel Test|The Bechdel Test]], [[Double Standard]], [[The Smurfette Principle]], [[White Male Lead]], [[Race Lift]], [[Animation Age Ghetto]], [[Minority Show Ghetto]], [[Lifetime Movie of the Week]].

== AnimeStuck andin Mangathe Ghetto ==

* ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura (Manga)|Cardcaptor Sakura]]'' was a quintessential girls show, but when it was released for [[Kids WB]] the dub saw heavy edits to turn one of the male characters into a Protagonist along with Sakura, which included having half the episodes (mainly the ones without him) cut. Broadcasts outside the US aired the remaining episodes (save for two in Canada and the U.K.), thus clearly establishing Sakura as the protagonist.

* In ''[[Black Lagoon (Manga)|Black Lagoon]]'', while the main character is a male, this doesn't stop all the ladies from stealing the limelight with their guns, swords, and/or freakish strength. In fact, characters like Revy, Roberta, Eda, and Balalaika continue to front the action and receive the most character development then all the male characters combined, all without having to dress like a sexy schoolgirl. And here's the kicker: the primary audience is ''adult Japanese men''.

* According to [[DiC Entertainment]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEXqoPgbH0c pitch reel] for ''[[Sailor Moon (Manga)|Sailor Moon]]'', attempts to sell the show in America included informing networks that the dub was distributed by the studio that made ''[[Where Onon Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?]]'', a show that earned fans of both genders despite its female leads, and also assuring the networks that, "boys will love the non-stop action!"

* Males who enjoy [[Shoujo Demographic]] works are often looked at askance. Sometimes inverted with women that like [[Shonen]] being treated like they're all [[Yaoi Fangirl|Yaoi Fangirls]]s.

* ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica (Anime)|Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' originally suffered from a [[Audience-Alienating Premise]] due to this trope by starting off as a mostly normal-looking cutesy [[Magical Girl]] show, causing many people to [[Tastes Like Diabetes|stop watching it in disgust]] before the real, [[Cosmic Horror Story|much darker premise]] took shape. Of course [[Late Arrival Spoiler|once everyone learned what the show was actually about]], fans started flocking to the show.

=== [[Comic Books]] ===

* [[Wonder Woman]] has had this problem. She's supposed to be one of DC's Big Three superheroes next to [[Batman (Franchise)|Batman]] and [[Superman (Franchise)|Superman]], yet she hasndidn't hadget a Live Action Film yetuntil 2017 (after infamously being in [[Development Hell]] for years.) She hasn't had an animated series yet. ([[Batman: The Animated Series (Animation)|Batman the Animated Series]] [[The Batman (Animation)|has]] [[Batman: theThe Brave Andand Thethe Bold (Animation)|had]] plenty in recent years, and [[Superman: The Animated Series (Animation)|Superman got his own show, too.]]) and theThe last time she'sd been out of the comics solo (besides the [[Wonder Woman (Filmanimation)|animated film]]) isbefore 2017 was [[Wonder Woman (TV series)|the '70s live action series]]. The closest she's gotten to another franchise was a failed pilot in 2011 that was rather poorly received outside the industry (though no reason has officially been given for why they dropped it). And even within the comics, she's never been on the same level of sales as Batman and Superman.

** The sad irony here is that Wonder Woman ''was'' created for girls, but for the specific purpose of ''having a female action hero who was equal to her male counterparts''. But, apparently, being a literal Amazon still doesn't make you as "manly" as the most [[Badass Normal]] male hero.

=== [[Fan FictionWorks]] ===

* Some [[Fan Fiction]] writers hypothesise that [[Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls]] is the reason why 'fanfiction' is considered to be so viscerally disgusting by so many people. It's worth observing that on this wiki, most of the fanfiction included in tropes lists is either adventure-based stuff written by boys (''[[Shinji and Warhammer 40 K (Fanfic)|Shinji and Warhammer 40 KWarhammer40K]]''), or relationship-based stuff that's legendarily bad (''[[My Immortal (Fanfic)|My Immortal]]'').

** This opinion has even been documented in academic analysis of [[Fanfic]] by ethnographer Camille Bacon-Smith and MIT's Henry Jenkins. Jenkins goes as far to postulate in ''Textual Poachers'' that [[Fanfic]] in general is a reaction on the part of a female audience trying to find their own pleasures in predominantly-male media.

=== Film - Animation ===

* ''[[The Princess and The Frog (Disney)|The Princess and Thethe Frog]]'' did okay at the box office for Disney, but not nearly as good as their previous animated films. Disney determined that this trope was the reason and was rumored to [http://articles.latimes.com/2010/nov/21/entertainment/la-et-1121-tangled-20101121 completely shut down adapting fairy tales into movies.] For the marketing of their "[[Rapunzel (Literature)|Rapunzel]]" adaptation, they completely downplayed the fairy tale-ness of the movie, changed the title to the somewhat more comedic-sounding ''[[Verbed Title|Tangled]]'', [http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/09/business/la-fi-ct-disney9-2010mar09 put the male hero character front and center, and marketed it like a Dreamworks comedy film.] The advertising brought a whole lot of backlash, but in the end it paid off; ''Tangled'' went on to become Walt Disney Animation Studios' first movie since ''[[The Lion King (Disney)|The Lion King]]'' to break the $200 million mark domestically.

** This ignored the fact that alleged "girly" films such as ''[[The Little Mermaid (Disney)|The Little Mermaid]]'' and ''[[Beauty and The Beast (Disney)|Beauty and Thethe Beast]]'' were the highest grossing animated films of their times. Clearly there were at least some boys out there watching them. (On the other hand, the [[Disney Princess]] franchise hadn't yet been established, so boys back then probably didn't associate watching both of those movies as being girly.) And ''Princess and the Frog'' was released the week before ''[[Avatar (Filmfilm)|Avatar]]'', with ''[[Sherlock Holmes (Filmfilm)|Sherlock Holmes]]'' and the ''[[Alvin and the Chipmunks (Film)|Alvinandthe Chipmunks]]'' sequel following on its heels, which could have been the ''real'' reason audiences didn't turn out in huge numbers.

* Some ''[[Beauty and The Beast (Disney)|Beauty and Thethe Beast]]'' trailers completely downplayed Belle's role and the romance, such as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nOEH1Fy5vI this one.] However, the fact only one of the six trailers included on the DVD and Blu-Ray uses such techniques suggests Disney didn't rely on them as heavily as for ''Tangled''.

* In the early 2000s, Walt Disney Animation Studios started to make boy-oriented movies, such as ones focusing either on [[Tarzan (Disney film)|men living in jungles with gorillas]], [[Dinosaur (Disney)|dinosaursdinosaur]]s, [[The Emperor's New Groove (Disney)|emperors]], [[Treasure Planet (Disney)|pirates in space]], and [[Brother Bear (Disney)|bears]], but [[Atlantis: theThe Lost Empire (Disney)|one particular film released during this era]] had a princess in it.

** ''[[Lilo and Stitch (Disney film)|LiloandLilo and Stitch]]'' managed to avoid the ghetto for the most part, despite its female main characters, and became one of the more profitable Disney films of this era. Although, the marketing tended to focus exclusively on Stitch (presumably male), which may be why.

* The original story treatment of ''[[Chicken Little (Disney)|Chicken Little]]'' had a female protagonist, but Michael Eisner suggested a movie about a male Chicken Little would appeal to more people. The final film became a black sheep of the [[Disney Animated Canon]], though it seems hard to tell whether or not the original plan would have fared better.

* Some DVD sets of ''[[The Secret of NIMH (Animation)|The Secret of NIMH]]'' and its direct-to-video sequel, ''Timmy to the Rescue'', have a cover that does not feature Mrs. Brisby, the main character of the older and more beloved of the two movies. Instead, it has her son, Timothy.

=== Film - Live Action[[Literature]] ===

** [[JKJ. Rowling (Creator)|JKK. Rowling]] was told to use initials by her publisher, who worried about this trope. In reality, Joane Rowling doesn't have a middle initial or name (the K is for "Kathleen", after her grandmother), and now her gender is common knowledge.

** And ''[[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]'' author [[KAK. A. Applegate]].

=== [[Live -Action TelevisionTV]] ===

* [[Lifetime Movie of the Week|Lifetime and the Lifetime Movie Network]] are "television for women" that often convince many female and male viewers that female-directed media is lesser.

* Towards the fifth season of ''[[Charmed (TV)|Charmed]]'', the producers, in the hopes of drawing in more male viewers, [[Fan Service|started dressing the female leads in more revealing clothes and coming up with various episodes where the sisters would be transformed into magical creatures that would require a skimpy outfit.]] Alyssa Milano got the worst of it, becoming a mermaid, a genie, an Egyptian belly dancer, and dressing up as [[Godiva Hair|Lady Godiva]]. [[Rose McGowan]] was also turned into a wood nymph, and collectively the sisters became Greek goddesses and Valkyries. Hell, one episode had a witch stealing Phoebe's body and changing into a different skimpy outfit twice [[Showing Off the New Body|just because she wanted to show off]]. Before the eighth and final season, the actresses went to the producers and protested against the outfits. The sisters' clothing in that season is noticeably more modest, and it's new character Billie who becomes [[Ms. Fanservice]].

* This has an interesting effect with shows in syndication. A lot of shows that were very gender-neutral during their original run can be put into reruns on networks that are considered exclusive to women ([[Network Decay]] aside, networks like Lifetime, Oxygen, and We have a long reputation of being solely for women.) A lot of shows that were gender neutral and incredibly popular with men and women, like ''[[Will and Grace (TV)|Will and Grace]],'' ''[[Frasier (TV)|Frasier]]'', and ''[[Roseanne (TV)|Roseanne]]'', now have to overcome a stigma that they're shows for women.

=== [[Music]] ===

* Happens in music quite often. [[Boy Band|Boy bands]]s/[[Teen Idol|Teen Idols]]s (usually aimed at girls) [[My Friends and Zoidberg|and]] [[Justin Bieber (Music)|Justin Bieber]] usually end up gaining a huge [[Periphery Hatedom]], with people sometimes literally sending death threats, but a [[Girl Group]] probably won't have as much of a problem, because of all of the [[Fan Service]].

=== [[Video Games]] ===

* This trope is the reason ''[[Panel De Pon (Video Game)|Panel Dede Pon]]'' was brought over to the West as [[Dolled-Up Installment]] ''Tetris Attack'' - Nintendo assumed male gamers wouldn't want to play a [[Kawaisa|cutesy]] game with a primarily female cast of mainly [[Our Fairies Are Different|fairies]]. They seem to have changed their minds on this recently, however, as characters from ''PDP'' have appeared in ''[[Super Smash Bros (Video Game)|Super Smash Bros.]] Brawl'' in sticker form even in the American and European releases.

* The game industry is ''notorious'' for refusing to break out of the idea that all gamers are 18-25 year old white men, at least if you're planning on making a non-casual title. Activision famously told a studio pitching a game set in Hong Kong with an Asian female lead to "[http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/29719/InDepth_No_Female_Heroes_At_Activision.php lose the chick, they don't sell.]" [http://kotaku.com/5424441/girls-night-with-the-most-male-game-of-2009 A.J. Glasser] once noted in an editorial for Kotaku that the only role presented for women in ''[[ModernCall Warfareof (VideoDuty: Game)Modern Warfare|Modern Warfare]] 2'' were NPCs {{spoiler|who are all immediately gunned down.}}. There were ''no'' speaking parts for women in the entire game, despite earlier ''[[Call of Duty (Video Game)|Call of Duty]]'' games actually remembering once in a while that there are in fact women who serve in the military. She also pointed out a culture gap between Japanese games, which tend to frequently have female leads or supporting casts but also greatly objectify them as a trade-off, and Western games, which frequently just leave women out entirely.

** The reason there are no female playable characters in the ''Call of Duty'' games is a reflection of the fact that women [[Men Are the Expendable Gender|do not serve in the roles portrayed in the game in real life]].

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131003175825/http://sweetupndown.tumblr.com/post/15242399360/dear-customer-who-stuck-up-for-his-little-brother This story] made the rounds in late 2011, in which a young boy was threatened with actual violence by his father for wanting to buy ''[[Mirror's Edge]]''. Entirely because, well, it ''must'' be a girl's game, it has a woman on the cover!

=== [[Web Original]] ===

* The raison d'etre of [[The Nostalgia Chick (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Chick]]. [[Distaff Counterpart|Her original function was to review the movies that were too girly for]] [[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]], but she eventually revolted.

** Although in a way, she still keeps with this trope--intrope—in a blog post she notes that she was hired to bring more female viewers to the site, but women were still watching the boys ([[Estrogen Brigade|for the reasons you might expect]]) and only started coming ''after'' she started doing other subjects. It's worth noting she still does girly topics as well.

=== [[Western Animation]] ===

* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' strives to please both genders, but it's not the case for the toys. In particular, the store owners requested the Princess Celestia toy to be pure pink, since they think it would sell better to little girls than if she stayed white (or actually, very light pink).

* In-universe, one episode of ''[[Family Guy (Animation)|Family Guy]]'' features Lois dragging Peter to a [[Chick Flick]], which he thinks might turn him gay. However, he quite enjoys it (and several others), and decides to make a Chick Flick of his own. It...doesn't turn out well.

* Compared to the show, which was basically ''[[He -Man and Thethe Masters of Thethe Universe (Animation)|He Man and The Masters of The Universe]]'' with female main characters, the original ''[[She -Ra: Princess of Power (Animation)|She Ra Princess of Power]]'' toyline was far more Barbie-esque. Catra was portrayed as the [[Big Bad]] in the toyline while in the show, she was a subordinate to Hordak, who had previously been sold as a ''Masters of the Universe'' toy, and was portrayed as the show's [[Big Bad]]. This was all supposedly because Mattel didn't think girls would play with a Hordak toy, nor would boys play with a toy of a female She-Ra character.

* Even though ''[[The Powerpuff Girls (Animation)|The Powerpuff Girls]]'' earned fans both male and female, creator [[Craig McCracken (Creator)|Craig McCracken]] noticed that by the time the show reached its third season, it had spawned a disconcerting amount of girls-only merchandise. When [[Cartoon Network]] asked him to helm a [[The Film of the Series|Film Of The Series]], he decided to bring ''Powerpuff Girls'' back to its action-packed, "whoopass" roots. The [[Darker and Edgier]] product received mixed reviews and made less money than any other movie of its year.

* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' got hit with the merchandising version; with no female action figures even though girls made up a good half of the cast. What made this even more jarring was that male characters who only appeared in a few episodes, like Jet, got action figures, but Katara, an [[Action Girl]] and a member of the MAIN''main CASTcast'' (appearing in all episodes except [[Villain Episode|"Zuko Alone"]]) never got one, neither did Toph, (also a main character from the second season onward) despite being more of a tomboy, nor the villainess Azula, even though her less competant-competent brother Zuko and his less competant-competent rival Zhao did get figures.

* ''[[Robot Chicken (Animation)|Robot Chicken]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4ZRpUithco demonstrates] how ''[[Sex and Thethe City]]'' can gain the male audience.

* In ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "Bart's Friend Falls In Love", Milhouse takes his girlfriend to the treehouse. When she asks if Bart has any girl comics for her to read, Bart says he doesn't but his sister has a wide collection of crappy comics.

* [[Disney Channel]] commissioned ''[[Phineas and Ferb (Animation)|Phineas and Ferb]]'', despite various worries about it, because they needed a show to attract young boys. Considering Disney's female-targeted fare currently doesn't seem to be doing nearly as well, it's just another example of this trope in action.

=== General ===

* Another good way to transcend the ghetto is to create a capable action heroine, but then have her go on all her adventures in the [[Stripperific|skimpiest clothing imaginable]]. Then both women and men will watch, but men (presumably) for all the "wrong" reasons.

=== Anime and Manga ===

=== Film-Live Action ===

* ''[[Bridesmaids (Film)|Bridesmaids]]''' aversion of this trope was a major factor in its success. A lot of the reviews praised it for being a female-centric comedy that wasn't a [[Strictly Formula]] [[Romantic Comedy|rom-com]], and apparently, a lot of female moviegoers agreed.

* The movie adaptation of ''[[The Hunger Games (Filmfilm)|The Hunger Games]]'' received good reviews and hefty box office returns. In what the business calls a "four-quadrant" success (meaning it's popular with teen girls, teen boys, adult men and adult women), some 40% of opening-weekend viewers were guys.

=== Literature ===

* ''[[Little House On the Prairie (Literature)|Little House Onon the Prairie]]''. It doesn't hurt that Laura is the most tomboyish of the three Ingalls daughters.

* ''[[The Hunger Games (Literaturenovel)|The Hunger Games]]'' is a young adult series with a female lead that sold well and got very positive reviews. However, it has also received significant backlash from the ''[[Twilight]]'' [[Hatedom]] that sees it as a [[Follow the Leader]].

=== Live-Action TelevisionTV ===

* ''[[Clarissa Explains It All]]'' was groundbreaking not only in its content, but because it finally disproved the common (at the time) thinking for children's television -- thattelevision—that boys would NOT watch a show starring a girl. [[Nickelodeon (Creator)|Nickelodeon]] proved everyone wrong by making Clarissa -- aClarissa—a smart, funny, free-thinking girl, who was only a tiny bit [[Tomboy|tomboyishtomboy]] -- theish—the lead character and one of the most recognizable characters in that time period. Much of Nickelodeon's future programming, from ''[[The Secret World of Alex Mack]]'' to ''[[ICarly (TV)|I CarlyiCarly]]'', has had similar "girly girls" in the lead roles, and also pushed tons of girls' merchandise in the pink aisles of toy stores -- allstores—all without sacrificing boy viewers.

** [[Melissa Joan Hart]]'s follow-up series, ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'' was even more succesful in that regard, having smart and funny female leads, running for 7 years and having almost equal popularity in both male and female demographics.

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' is a successful, well-regarded TV show that had a female lead and, for a time, a majority female cast. Its fanbase includes a good mix of males and females.

=== [[Professional Wrestling]] ===

** Wendi Richter's partnership with [[Cyndi Lauper]] helped kickstart the "Rock N Wrestling Connection" and brought wrestling to mainstream success. This helped draw in both male and female viewers, judging from the crowd reaction to the match at the first ''[[Wrestlemania]]''.

** In 2003 while critics were slating the [[WWEWorld (Wrestling) Entertainment|WWE]] product as a whole, the women's division was arguably at its peak and nearly all the women's matches on PPV that year were praised as being the high points of disappointing shows. Both male and female fans have spoken up about how much they enjoyed the feud between [[Trish Stratus (Wrestling)|Trish Stratus]] and Victoria which involved various hardcore matches. Also, [[Lita (Wrestling)|Lita]] and Trish Stratus's match in the main event of Raw earned a 3.4 in the ratings department, falling in line with the show's average. Trish Stratus's retirement match at ''Unforgiven'' 2006 was also highly received by fans and critics being called match of the night.

** Similarly in [[TNA]], the Knockouts division in 2007 and 2008 proved to be a huge ratings draw for the feud between [[Gail Kim (Wrestling)|Gail Kim]] and Awesome Kong and the women have main evented quite a few Impacts and drawn plenty of ratings for them.

=== Video Games ===

* The ''[[Metroid (Video Game)|Metroid]]'' series, [[Trope Namer]] for [[Samus Is a Girl]] with its protagonist female bounty hunter Samus Aran.

** However, one should note ''[[Metroid Other M (Video Game)|Metroid: Other M]]''; this was the first game to show Samus' personality beyond "stoic badass" and, well, [[Real Women NeverDon't Wear Dresses|let's just say there were a lot of arguments involving gender politics.]]

* ''[[Portal (Video Gameseries)|Portal]]'', whose only two [[The Ghost|(seen)]] characters are both females, but managed to become a huge hit despite it. Its sequel evened out the gender ratio a bit by introducing Wheatley and Cave Johnson but Chell and [[G La DOSGLaDOS]] have become icons.

==== [[Visual Novels]] ====

=== Western Animation ===

* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|LisaThe SimpsonSimpsons]]'': Lisa Simpson, at least before she was [[Flanderization|Flanderized]] into a [[Mary Sue]] and then a [[Jerk Sue]]. She managed to be both quirky and vaguely nerdy (jazz music, Beat poetry, etc.) and unabashedly "girly" (her love of ponies and "Malibu Stacy" dolls). A very good example of an animated female character whom boys could not only like, but ''identify with''.

* ''[[Raggedy Ann and Andy A Musical Adventure]]'' has become a cult hit for Generation X-ers and Generation Y-ers of both sexes, despite roughly half the protagonist characters being female (with the male lead mostly reduced to [[Miss Robinson Boy Wonder|a condescending "sidekick" role]]) and almost all of the antagonist characters being male. And of course, the basic story is more than a little indebted to ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' and ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]'' - two other tales that have always been popular with both female and male audiences despite having a female lead.

* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' has a ''huge'' male following (who call themselves "[[Fan Community Nickname|Bronies]]"), most of whom had to be cajoled to watch it first because of this very reason, but eventually became hooked. Not only is this a show about ponies and magic, but there are literally six female main characters and one male character.<br /><br />It should be noted that this aversion was [[Invoked Trope]] by [[Lauren Faust (Creator)|Lauren Faust]], as shown in the page quote, who purposefully had the goal of making it appealing to not just little girls, but older viewers as well, ''including'' older males. Judging by the massive male fanbase, it seems she's succeeded.

* ''[[She Ra Princess of Power (Animation)|She -Ra: Princess of Power]]'' was an interesting case. She-Ra was meant to basically be the [[Distaff Counterpart]] of ''[[He -Man and Thethe Masters of Thethe Universe (Animation)|He Man and The Masters of The Universe]]'', but despite having a female lead and a brighter color palette the tone wasn't all that different from its predecessor, especially since the series has Hordak (technically a MOTU character) as the lead villain, whereas the toyline has Catra as the [[Big Bad]]. So it basically attracted most of the same audience that He-Man did, despite trying to be a girl's show. A girl who wasn't into He-Man probably wouldn't be into She-Ra either, but a boy who liked He-Man would usually like She-Ra too (unless scared off by the fact that it was supposed to be for girls).

* ''[[Jem (Animation)|Jem]]'' was also popular with male viewers but aimed at females. This is probably due to a mix of action-packed plotlines, mild fanservice...and initially debuting on the same show as ''[[Inhumanoids (Animation)|Inhumanoids]]'', ''ROBOTIX'', and ''Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines''.

* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls (Animation)|The Powerpuff Girls]]'' was another cartoon that was admirably able to avoid the [[Girl Show Ghetto]] and attract an audience of both genders.

* ''[[Daria (Animation)|Daria]]'' has a tendency to focus on its female characters more often than the male ones, but quite a few boys and men like it, too.

* ''[[Kim Possible (Animation)|Kim Possible]]'' stars a well-renowned [[Action Girl]] with an incompetent male sidekick, yet managed to gain a rather large fanbase. This included male viewers.

* Although ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' had a problem with the merchandising (noted above), the show itself was an aversion, as the cast's gender ratio became weighted in favor of females during the second season without losing its male audience - in fact, most of the girls became fan favorites. This encouraged the creators to go ahead and put a girl as the main character of the [[Sequel Series]], ''[[The Legend of Korra (Animation)|The Legend of Korra]]'', which absolutely nobody in the fanbase has a problem with. The creators admit that when first selling ''Korra'' Nick execs didn't want to greenlight it for this very reason. An [http://www.npr.org/2012/04/13/150566153/airbender-creators-reclaim-their-world-in-korra interview] said that when brought before a test audience of boys they "[[Defied Trope|didn't care that Korra was a girl]]. [[Badass|They just thought she was awesome.]]"

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