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For most fictional purposes a '''hermaphrodite''' is an individual that's both male and female; specifically, one that has both male and female genitals. Biologists don't use the word that way, but we are talking about storytelling here, not biology. In real life, however, applying the term to a human is not only inaccurate, but likely stigmatizing and offensive. While sexually ambiguous humans ''do'' exist, [http://www.isna.org/faq/hermaphrodite a true human hermaphrodite has yet to be found, so the term you're probably looking for is "intersex"].

** The ''Rebis Dungeon'' (of the eponymous [[Hentai]] manga/doujin artist Rebis<ref>Not to be confused with "Negative Man"/Rebis</ref>) collection of works is simply ''rife'' with futanari of almost any kind. Of note is that the artist appears to be an avid ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' fan -- andfan—and [[Rule 34|yes, he has hentai fanart of it]], which includes hermaphroditic Slaaneshi Daemons.

** ''Bra Girl''<ref> This is actually a mis-translation due to the Japanese homophone ''bura'', a better translation would be "Swing Girl"</ref> by the same author is about a girl who had grown a penis (but explicitly no testicles) during the process of puberty, as part of an in-universe phenomenon that gave rise to the "third sex/gender". This example, however, is just an [[Ecchi]] romantic comedy instead of outright [[Hentai]]; at no point do we actually see her naked genitals, with the most that we get being the bulge of her morning erection through her pajama pants, and... uh, how it "looks" while she's wearing "third sex-compatible" panties.

* Given that very few fictional works actually show their protagonists' genitals, it's a common fanfictional conceit for all members of a particular species or society to be hermaphroditic (or at least for the females to have hyena-like genitalia.) This is slightly weird when applied to [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|Green Skinned Space Babes]] (e.g. [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Starfire]]), and ''really'' weird when applied to [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture|Fantasy Counterpart Cultures]]s whose real-world equivalents quite obviously aren't hermaphroditic (e.g. [[Code Geass|Britannians]].<ref>Granted, the author of the latter was apparently Japanese, so it's anyone's guess whether he's ever seen a British woman's genitals.</ref>)

* In [[Naruto Veangance Revelaitons]], which is full of typos, spelling mistakes and [[Freudian Slip|Freudian Slips]]s, Sakura, on more than one occasion, is said to have a penis.

* The [[Fan Nickname|Xenomorphs]] from the ''[[Alien]]'' films. [[Word of God|According to]] [[H. R. Giger]], the guy who pretty much created the aliens, they're neither male nor female but rather a horrific blurring of both sexes. Yes, this even includes the Queen. ([[MST3K Mantra|Try not to think about it too hard.]] These ''are'' [[Bizarre Alien Biology|aliens, after all.]]) H.R. Giger's new ''Xenorotica Portfolio'' is essentially [[Rule 34]] based around them, much to the joy of [[Nightmare Fetishist|Nightmare Fetishists]]s everywhere.

* In [[H. Beam Piper]]'s sci-fi novel ''[[Uller Uprising]]'', the Ullerans are a race of silicon-based, vaguely reptilian [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Proud Warrior Race Guys]]s who happen to be hermaphroditic. The rather imperialistic Terran colonists have gotten used to every army unit needing to have a few troopers assigned to baby-sitting duty.

* When the [[Evilutionary Biologist]] villains of [[Jack Chalker|Jack L. Chalker's]] ''[[The Moreau Factor]]'' [[Involuntary Transformation|transform]] their victims into [[Half-Human Hybrid|Half Human Hybrids]] they also make many of them hermaphrodites, apparently [[Power Perversion Potential|just because they can]]-- or—or so the protagonist initially assumes. He later learns that creating a fertile species of any kind is pretty much a fluke when you're [[Playing with Syringes]] and the scientists weren't deliberately aiming for hermaphrodites so much as they were trying to create something -- anything -- thatsomething—anything—that could reproduce.

* In the [[Mesopotamian Mythology|Babylonian version]] of ''[[Inanna's Descent to the Netherworld|Inannas Descent to The Netherworld]]'', the [[Living MacGuffin|asexual creatures]] used to rescue Inanna (Ishtar) from the underworld become replaced by a [[Hermaphrodite]] being that confuses Ereshkigal, who eventually lets her sister leave.

* Slaanesh, the youngest [[Eldritch Abomination|Chaos God]] in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' and ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'', can be just as accurately referred to as "The Dark Prince" and "She Who Thirsts." Traditional lore portrays it as a rather unusual version of this trope; basically, cut a woman and a man, both exceptionally beautiful, in half vertically and then fuse the woman's right half to the man's left half to make a whole human being. That's what Slaanesh's "main" form looks like. Slaanesh's followers tend to end up rather distorted in terms of gender, but for male worshippers, having the right pectoral swell into a female breast is considered a high mark of favor, as it makes them more like Slaanesh itself. Of course, as a supremely powerful warp entity, Slaanesh can alter its form to appear male, female, hermaphroditic, or androgynous, but not matter how it appears, it is supremely seductive -- soseductive—so that yes, you'd hit that, and you'd sell your soul for the chance to do so.

** Another, non-fully functional example is Livillia, the actual ''[[Odd Job Gods|goddess of prostitution]]''. As befitting her nature, she's not nearly as [[Squick|Squicky]]y as Marilaq-she looks like a [[Hot Amazon]] since she's supposed to be an example of both male and female attractiveness. Doesn't stop her from wearing a penis sheath.