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** Since all pucks look ''identical'', it's been implied that this is some kind of magical cloning (one character remarks that pucks "only consider [themselves] worth reproducing with".

*** Note that Hobgoblin's comment was a response to an insult from Niko.

'''Hobgoblin:''' "Who else would be worthy?" }}

** In ''Trick of the Light'', which takes place in the same universe, the main character notes that pucks are a clone species. How they reproduce is never stated, but in ''Nightlife'' Darkling refers to Robin as a "Mitotic shithead." Also, pucks are referred to in several places as goats, or mutated goats, or something else about goats. Which leads one to wonder about the origin of the puck species...

* In the novella ''Houston, Houston, Do You Read?'', {{spoiler|astronauts from the present (all male) accidentally travel through time to the future Earth. Eventually, they discover that plague wiped out most human life, including all the males. The surviving women reproduce through cloning and have no interest in bringing back males, though they do want some genetic material to produce a few more templates to clone ''from''. They also have no intention of allowing the men to disrupt their way of life, and aren't going to keep them prisoner; much more humane to simply kill them.}} It was Tiptree, what do you want?

* Dwarves''/''Black Elves were originally described as spawning from stone. [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]] eventually put a much-copied twist on this. Only about one female is born to every three males, and to untrained eyes, their women look very similar to men. They also dress in such a manner to add to the confusion.

** Lampshaded in the movie:

'''Gimli''': ...and this has lead to the belief that there ''are'' no dwarf women, and that dwarves just spring up out of holes in the ground! Which is, of course, ridiculous. }}

** The surviving long-lived ents in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' are all male, due to a complicated estrangement causing the "Entwives" to wander away thousands of years ago (symbolically, the ents represent untouched wilderness, the entwives cultivated land), never to be seen again. This was probably just because the heroes happened to run into the ents instead of the entwives, since both are supposed to be pretty much impossible to locate under normal circumstances.