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'''There's really two reasons this happens:'''
# It's a lot easier on the costume/animation department if everything is fairly uniform across the board for the generic cannon fodder and slightly less generic [[Monster of the Week]]. There's also an easy story justification when monsters are involved: simply put, they are all modified forms of one design, pressed from a single mold, created by the same spell or, in the case of the first generation of [[Star Wars|Imperial Storm Troopers]], [[Cloning Blues|cloned]] from the same guy.
# In the case of where the single gender protagonist(s) fight single gender monsters, this is probably to avoid [[Unfortunate Implications]]. Violence of men against men and women against women isn't viewed with the same sort of sensitivity as men against women. By reserving the men against women for developed characters (where you can develop very good reasons why they need to fight each other) and not having it for the [[
See also [[One-Gender Race]], [[Designated Girl Fight]]. Contrast [[Female Monster Surprise]].
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=== Anime and Manga ===
* In ''[[Guyver]]'', no female zoanoids are ever featured (though a couple appeared in the American live-action movies).
=== Film ===
* The ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' movies had only guy orcs. Possibly justified since they're asexually reproducing (though [[Word of God]] would disagree, maybe; Tolkien wasn't known for being specific about the [[Brain Bleach|sexual predilections of orcs]])...yech.
** This is true for the movie version; however, Tolkien had written that "Orcs multiply after the fashion of the Children of Illuvatar", i.e. elves and men. (Written here because there's no Literature section on this page.)
** In just about any fantasy setting, it is rare for female goblins, orcs, trolls, ogres, or giants to be mentioned. There are of course exceptions (such as [[Xanth]], [[Shrek]], and tabletop games run by particularly forward-minded [[Game Master
** Though, in the final movie, there are two orcs that appear to be strikingly female, like the one who orders for the catapults during the Minas Tirith battle.
** Some orcs (such as the one who inspects a freshly born Uruk-Hai in ''Fellowship'') were played by women, but whether they were meant to ''be'' orc women, who knows...
* ''[[Star Wars]] Episode II'' and onward had the Storm Troopers, clones of Jango Fett.
=== Live Action TV ===
* ''[[Power Rangers]]'' tends to limit itself to two female monsters per season, though there ''is'' always at least one female [[The Dragon|Dragon]].
=== Tabletop RPG ===
* ''[[Dungeons
** For orcs, it's justified that you don't often fight
*** The Forgotten Realms novel Evermeet quotes an Orc proverb "If Gruumsh had intended females to lead, he would have given them bigger muscles."
** And for trolls it's averted, since they're matriarchal.
** This is typically applies to [[The Hyena|gnolls too]], which is a little strange since real life hyenas are matriarchal.
=== Video Games ===
* ''[[Donkey Kong Country]]'': ever see a female Kremling before ''Barrel Blast''?
* The Super Mutants of ''[[Fallout]]'' all look male, but it's revealed in files that the FEV virus which creates them makes both genders visually identical (secondary sexual characteristics like breasts and high-pitched voices disappear). Indeed, in ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]],'' there are several female Super Mutants who, yes, sound exactly like the men (though they don't necessarily act like the men; one is a sweet old granny).
* All of the Covenant Aliens in ''[[Halo]]'' are male.
* [[Samus Is a Girl]], yet all space pirates in ''[[Metroid]]'' are referred to as male. In fact, pretty much everything Samus fights is either male ([[The Dragon|Ridley]], [[Space Pirates]], [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|Kraid]]...) or gender-neutral (most of the wildlife, the titular creatures, robots...). Even [[Evil Twin|Dark Samus and the SA-X]] technically have no genders. As for the Mother Brain, "she" seems to refer to "herself" as female in the manga (and in ''[[Captain N]]''), but "she's" a giant brain in a jar, so "she" may not count. The only enemy Samus ever fought who was definitely female was {{spoiler|Gandrayda}}.
* The Orks of ''[[Warhammer
** This has lead to a lot of interesting little bits of in-universe lore, though. Such as if a planet's ever invaded by Orks, even an Exterminatus might not be enough to get rid of them, and their spores, completely, and their version of a doctor being able to work in a perfectly effective manner, despite being a psychotic chainsaw nut that harvests spare parts and stick them onto those in need at near random.
*** The spores just don't make more orks; they also make the fungi and squigs they eat, and the lesser greenskins to farm and help the orks. In other words ''a single ork can make an entire ecosystem.'' (This is the main reason why orks are so good at fighting the Tyranids.)
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* ''[[Pokémon]]'' has quite a few [[Always Male]] monsters: The Tyrogue family, Tauros, Gallade, Volbeat, Mothim, and the Rufflet line.
=== Anime and Manga ===▼
▲== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'' mostly fights cards that seem female when they aren't too ambiguous, but this might be just because they're so cute looking.
** With some of the things implied about their in-universe creator, it'd be unsurprising if he specifically decided he wanted them cute looking.
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* Based on their voices and booklet art, all of [[Night of the Living Mooks|the Marriages]] of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] StrikerS [[All There in the Manual|Sound Stage X]]'' appear to be female.
* All of the [[Humongous Mecha|Dolems]] in ''[[RahXephon]]'' had female characteristics, their avatars were women in [[Stripperific|skimpy outfits]], and their Mulian controllers were all women as well. There are two exceptions, both of whom are plot relevant to the lead and the tormented leader of Terra.
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' had female [[Monster of the Aesop|Monsters Of The Aesop]], and only bad guy lieutenants and [[Monster of the Week|Monsters
** Since this is mainly a trait of the TV show, this is cited as one of the homages to the above-mentioned ''[[Cutie Honey]].''
* Zig-zagged in ''[[Claymore]]''. Most of the monsters the characters face are Male Youma, but 99% of Awakened Being are female, prompting a shocked response from one character on there even ''being'' a male Awakened.
* As could be assumed from their name, the witches from ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' are all female... [[Eldritch Abomination|not that you could tell by looking at them]]. {{spoiler|Justified in that they are actually [[The Corruption|corrupted]] [[Magical Girl
=== Video Games ===
* The Helazoid race in ''[[Wizardry]] VII: Crusaders of the Dark Savant'' are a thriving all-female culture. Justified by their use of advanced technology to reproduce and only produce female children.
* In ''[[Scarab of Ra]]'', the pyramid is infested with monkeys, cobras, and ''lionesses.''
=== Web Comics ===
* The three peanut butter monsters in ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'' are all female, since they're all [[Cloning Blues|genetically identical
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