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{{quote|'''Sally Impossible:''' ''What could be more important than your family, Richard?''
'''Richard Impossible:''' ''...Science?''|''[[The Venture Brothers]]''}}
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''
** The expansion also played it straight with the two alien factions: the Caretakers, led by a female sworn to preserve the planet, and the Usurpers, led by a male and hellbent on exploiting its power for their own gain.
*** However, the expert hackers (Data Angels) and the ultra-militaristic faction (Spartans) are led by women, while the humanitarian Peacekeepers are led by a man.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', Surma Carver could [[I See Dead People|speak with]] [[The Grim Reaper|the Guides]], and she served as the mediator between the Court and the magical Gillitie Wood. Her husband, Anthony, was a surgeon and, according to Jones:
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'''Jones''': Oh? That was your father's influence, I suspect. Yes, he never had patience for matters that didn't fall into a scientific category. }}
** Though considering that Jones was [[I Shall Taunt You|deliberately trying to anger Annie]], it's possible this is being set up for a [[Subverted Trope|subversion]].
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** Somewhat inverted in that Fox's father has a lot more integrity and good principles than her mother. He's a lot kinder too.
* In one episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'', Bart and Lisa's school was split into Boys' and Girls' sections. The Boys learned everything pretty much the same way, but the Girls reverted to some absolutely bizarre New Age teaching methods. While the boys' teaching methods worked better, outside of class their side of the school looked like a scene from ''[[Lord of the Flies]]''.
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* ''[[The Secret Saturdays]]'' lives this trope. Doc Saturday is a scientist through and through, while his wife Drew is more a believer in the paranormal. Faced with any problem Doc will always seek a logical solution while Drew will explore more mystical alternatives. They're still [[Happily Married]] though so that's cool.
* The parents of [[Kim Possible]] are both [[This Ain't Rocket Surgery|highly qualified scientists]] -- but her father is a rocket scientist and her mother a brain surgeon.
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* Everything [[Dan Brown]] has ever written. His hero is always an expert in some area of humanities, while the heroine is an expert in some mathematical field.
* The Ents and Entwives in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''. Treebeard explains that while the Ents delighted in nature and the wilds, and would roam for long periods communing with plants and animals. Whereas:
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** The Entwives then first taught humans agriculture, and how to farm the land. Their male counterparts remained wild, favouring a more intuitive connection with growing things.
* In ''
* Big time aversion: coldly logical (and somewhat misanthropic) robopsychologist Susan Calvin of [[Isaac Asimov]]'s ''I, Robot''.
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