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*** ''Warcraft 1'' had a half-orc, half-human (who was later retconned into half-Dranei) girl. Garona Halforcen was present in one mission of ''Warcraft 1''. The Smurfette Principle in full force.
** The Orc gender balance was also acknowledged in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' in that the orcs actually ''were'' sexist. Despite being every bit as aggressive and strong as the men, women were denied combat roles. Thrall changed that between ''WC3'' and ''WoW''.
** And that is before getting into their [https://web.archive.org/web/20121103024510/http://www.wowpedia.org/images/thumb/7/7e/Sylvanasstatuee.jpg/180px-Sylvanasstatuee.jpg outfits.]
* Contrast ''[[EverQuest]]'', where female characters seem to outnumber male ones. Both ''Everquest'' and ''Everquest 2'''s main characters, Firiona Vie and Antonia Bayle respectively, were female. Firiona's nemesis, Lanys Ty'Val, was female as well.
* The ''[[Star Fox (series)|Star FOX]]'' games follow the principle. [[Star Fox (video game)|The original game]], and its remake, ''[[Star Fox 64]]'', featured an all male membership in the title team (bad jokes about Slippy's [[Ambiguous Gender]] notwithstanding) and only one female character period—sometime ally Katt, who assisted you in Zoness and Sector Z. It wasn't until ''[[Star Fox Assault]]'' that the team gained a permanent female member: Krystal from ''[[Star Fox Adventures]]''.
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** The Cheat Commandos, as a parody of '80s cartoons, do this explicitly with "Foxface", whose action figure boasts "Lady Type!" and "Not One of The Guys!!" The latter is a direct reference to the token females of ''[[G.I. Joe]]''. Even then, Foxface has never had a speaking part (though Crack Stuntman's girlfriend got a brief speaking part as a character in one episode.)
* In ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'', Tex is very much aware that she's the only girl, until another is introduced in the fifth season. She also gets notably huffy when Donut is mistaken for a girl because of his [[The European Carry All|new pink armor]], and her teammates imply that she's not a "real" girl. She's also, undoubtedly, the biggest [[Badass]] of the show.
* [[The Nostalgia Chick]] talks about this in a video titled "[https://web.archive.org/web/20140830043656/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thedudette/nostalgia-chick/16616-the-smurfette-principle The Smurfette Principle]". At that point, she was also an example of it, though two other women joined the site at the same time, and [[That Guy With The Glasses]], as a site, has gone on to build a larger female cast.
* Most videos on ''[[Cracked.com]]'' have a single female.
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