39,327
edits
One-Gender Race: Difference between revisions
m
update links
m (update links) |
m (update links) |
||
Line 94:
'''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...
** The process is elaborated upon in ''Doubletake''. Every thousand years or so all the Pucks meet up, count how many remain and generally catch up before, naturally, engaging in an orgy with the only creatures not terrified of that many Pucks in one place. They then choose a number of Pucks by lot and order them to reproduce, which consists of somehow generating a clone completely identical to themselves, including all memory and experience. The cloning is strictly mandated, a death sentence the alternative.
* 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.
Line 157:
* The Orks in ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' (and possibly the Orcs in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'') seem to be all male, early [[Retcon|non-canonical]] references to female Orks notwithstanding; however, since Wh40k Orks are actually a type of animate ''fungus'' that reproduce via spores, attempting to assign a gender to them is basically an exercise in futility.
** [[Blood Bowl]] has [http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat1290340&prodId=prod1560097 orc cheerleaders], which are female. Then again, [[Blood Bowl]] is essentially an alternate universe.
** According to one supplement, the the Gene-Seed—the stuff that makes [[Space Marines]] grow to nine-foot tall poison-drinking, car-lifting supermen—is [[Artistic License: Biology|only compatible with male genetics]].
* ''[[Transhuman Space]]'' features a few [[Straw Feminist]] geneticists trying to engineer an [[One-Gender Race|all-female human subrace]].
* [[Xevoz]] gets hit hard with this one - six races, with two more added later on, and every single member is male, or at least lacking any distinct female traits (one race is [[Energy Beings]] after all). Unless you consider that ony the drones in an insect colony are male, and the two character types under the [[Big Creepy-Crawlies]] race are heavily implied to be soldiers rather than drones.
Line 196:
** Additionally, several races have both genders according to the lore, but only one (male, with an exception being the succubus) is depicted in game. Ogres, Broken and Lost Ones, for example...although a half-finished female Broken model exists in the game source. Literally ''half''-finished. If the macro system's UnitSex() function is to believed, some of the 'all male races' such as Ogres do have female individuals in the game. Apparently the player characters just can't tell the difference.
** The Warcraft D20 monster manual states explicitly that Harpies reproduce by <s> copulation with</s> raping a captured humanoid race, preferring elves and humans.
* In [[Warcraft]] III's campaign, the Night Elves begin as a one-gender race, until the male Druids, who have apparently been hibernating for a long, long time, awaken.
** Even in [[World of Warcraft]], there are many more female Night Elves than male. This is probably a [[Rule of Sexy]] choice by Blizzard and the players, and the (Handwaved) reason for this is probably that many males are still trapped within the Emerald Dream. If players are ever allowed to visit the Emerald Dream, one can bet that there will be plenty of female Night Elves running around.
* In the MMORPG ''Trickster'', Cats, rabbits, foxes, and sheep are female, raccoons, dragons, lions, and bulls (well, duh) are male. Less so than most examples in that all the characters [[Little Bit Beastly|are really humans with costumes consisting of a headband and a tail]].
| |||