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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]]s), but they tend to be rare.
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=== Tabletop RPG ===
* ''[[Dungeons
** For orcs, it's justified that you don't often fight females—the males usually treat them as [[Stay in the Kitchen|breeding stock whose place is in the home]] or otherwise away from front lines. So in any scenario where conflict with female orcs is possible there's also probably orc kids and babies around, and any sane DM would probably advise players of non-evil characters to tread very lightly so as not to upset [[Mama Bear]].
*** The Forgotten Realms novel Evermeet quotes an Orc proverb "If Gruumsh had intended females to lead, he would have given them bigger muscles."
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* 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.
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=== 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.
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