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** ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam Ecole Du Ciel]]'' is so far the only ''Gundam'' work with a female as the main character.

** While not the main character, Chris Mckenzie of [[Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket|War In The Pocket]] was the only female pilot, but is also the best one in the series, being a test pilot for the Gundam Alex.

* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' the only female character to be around during the show's entire run is Anzu among a group of Yami Yugi, Yugi, Jounouchi, Honda, Kaiba, Mokuba, and to an extent Bakura and Otoji. Mai and Shizuka put in appearance now and then but are really secondary characters.

** The Toei anime added [[Ascended Extra|Miho]], the [[Tomboy and Girly Girl|Girly Girl to Anzu's Tomboy]].

* Riza Hawkeye is the only woman in Roy Mustang's group in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]''. Somewhat justified in that there are fewer women in the military than there are men, and the reason she's in the group in the first place is because she's Mustang's aide, confidante, and bodyguard. She's [[The Chick]] only in the sense of being the sole female and dearly loved by her male counterparts; fact is, she's more badass than any of the other four subordinates. This may also be justified, as the country that the series mainly takes place in is an alternate-universe version of pre-World War II Germany, an era where seeing women in the military was a lot less common.

** Among the homunculi, Lust is the only female in the manga/Brotherhood anime (though Envy is genderless according to [[Word of God]]), but the first anime replaced the male Sloth with a female one.

** Presumably it's especially glaring because they're teenagers, which heightens the difference between girls and boys more than in elementary school. Bonus points for two of the boys, especially Shinko, having gotten pretty, and the fat one being less absurd-looking than before.

* ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' inverts this trope with the Black Rose Duelists (as opposed to the regular duelists chosen by {{spoiler|Akio}}). Discounting the man manipulating them, Mikage, there are five girls that were chosen, and one boy, Mitsuru. Another boy, Tatsuya, was lured into becoming one but was rejected.

*** Averted during the "Sisterhood of Evil" era, when the three female members of the team carried on in the absence of the then incarcerated male members.

* When ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]]'' started in 1963, [[The Wasp]] was the only female member, and the weakest. Then all the original members left in 1965, but there was still only one female, the Scarlet Witch, who was the weakest...[[A God Am I|at the time]].

** The Wasp herself eventually became a badass hero in her own right and she even led the Avengers.

* When the ''[[Justice League of America]]'' started in 1960, [[Wonder Woman]] was the only female member, and though not ''necessarily'' the weakest, was certainly the most resembling. At least the early Gardner Fox stories treated her like the other members, and not like [[The Chick]]. Though she soon became the secretary at the JLA's meetings, taking minutes and so on. It took almost a decade before [[Black Canary]] became the second female member (and that was only after Wonder Woman had resigned; it would take several more years before there was more than one woman on the team).

** Both Python precursor series, ''Do Not Adjust Your Set'' and ''At Last the 1948 Show'', featured five person casts consisting of four men and one woman.

* Possibly lampshaded during the fourth season of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'': The title character has two slots for doctors to work under him, and four prospects, two of each gender. He {{spoiler|kicks one of the women out, and tells the other, nicknamed "13", that he'd hire her if he had a slot}}. Later, his boss, Lisa Cuddy, informs him that he has to {{spoiler|hire at least one woman, and tells him to hire 13}}. Cuddy starts to walk away, then realizes that she had just {{spoiler|[[Batman Gambit|given him exactly what he wanted]].}}

** This was due to [[Executive Meddling]]. The original pilot had a female ''second-in-command''. The network couldn't fire her fast enough (even if she managed to sneak back on set anyway in a blonde wig and a nurse's outfit).

*** The network might also have resented the fact that she was [[Gene Roddenberry]]'s [[Casting Couch|girlfriend]].

*** According to [[William Shatner]] at least, ''women'' in the test audiences found the female second-in-command "pushy" and "annoying". Maybe [[The World Is Not Ready|The World Was Not Ready]]...

**** It's also been said that [[NBC]] gave Roddenberry a somewhat [[Sadistic Choice]]: either keep the female second-in-command or keep Spock, but not both. Years later, Majel Barrett would quip that he "kept the Vulcan and married the woman, 'cause he didn't think [[Leonard Nimoy|Leonard]] would have it the other way around."

* ''[[Chouseishin Gransazer]]'' has twelve Gransazers (transforming superheroes), divided into four "tribes", each consisting of two guys and a girl. The two guys of each tribe can be quite clearly categorized as an "alpha male" and a "beta male". The girl is invariably [[The Chick]]. Ai of the Water Tribe is the chickiest of the four, though. (Her name means "love". It doesn't get any more cheesy and girly than that.)

* The [[Five-Man Band]] in ''[[Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future]]'' included Captain Power, Hawk, Tank, and Scout, all male. Sometime before the start of the show, they rescued Jennifer "Pilot" Chase from the Dread Youth. She was an awkward mix of skills and talents: she was on par with Power and Scout in combat and infiltration, but the former could easily (and often did) replace her at the helm of the Jumpship, and most of the time she was there only to be [[The Chick]]. Worse, at the end of its [[Cut Short|only season]], she was [[Killed Off for Real]] in a [[Heroic Sacrifice]]. Leaked scripts for a proposed Season 2 would have brought in a more [[Action Girl|Amazonian]] replacement.

* An interesting case is the BBC's ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]''. For the first four episodes, Marian was the only female character, not so much because of The Smurfette Principle, but simply because there was no other reoccurring female character in the legends. This was solved with the introduction of Djaq, a [[Sweet Polly Oliver]] in the [[Gender Flip]]ped role of the Saracen, who contributed her skills as a physician and scientist to the team. However, both Marian and Djaq were written out of the show at the end of Season 2, and replaced with [[Affirmative Action Girl|Isabella and Kate]]. Although Isabella had an important part to play in the narrative, the [[Creator's Pet|widely-hated]] Kate was simply the Token Girl amongst the outlaws, a task that involved [[Shallow Love Interest|fan-girling Robin]], [[Damsel Scrappy|getting kidnapped every week]], and [[The Load|being a useless tag-along]]. [[Unfortunate Implications]] abounded.

* ''[[Human Target]]'' will be adding a female character in its second season. The main characters are all guys. Please welcome this trope.

* The new version of ''[[Hawaii Five-O]]'' has Kono [[Gender Flip]]ped in order to have a girl among the lead characters.

* ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'' has five main characters: the four male nerds, and [[The Chick]] who lives across the hall.

** For the majoirity of Nine's run Rose Tyler was the only companion, although the very popular Captain Jack Harkness came on near the end. By the end of the Russel T. Davies era all the companions from the period came back, including Martha Jones, Donna Noble, Sarah Jane Smith and Jackie Tyler for the girls, with the guys including Jack and Mickey.

** The Eleventh's Team TARDIS could be considered 50/50, so far: You've got the Doctor and Rory, but also Amy and River.

* Two episodes of the original ''[[Outer Limits]]'', "The Chameleon" and "The Invisible Enemy", have all-male casts.

 

 

== Tabletop Games ==

** Also, although a number of armies (in particular the Imperial Guard and the Eldar/Dark Eldar) are said to contain large numbers of women, up until recently unless a unit was [[Amazon Brigade|overwhelmingly female]] the models wouldn't reflect it. More recent miniatures have started to correct this pattern, with female torsos being available in the Eldar Guardian box sets for example.

** Space Marines cannot be female. This is handwaved, badly.

* ''[[Infinity]]'' seems to be going out of its way to avert this - most troop types have male and female miniatures available.

* In [[AT-43]], most armies appear to be equal-opportunity employers going by the background story, but there are basically no models of female regular troops. However, about half the special characters (who are all officers) ''are'' female, as are two out of the three released models of medics and one of the three scientist models.

** This is obvious in the crossover ''Dissidia''. [[Final Fantasy VI|Terra]] is the only female on the protagonist side in the main storyline, besides the goddess Cosmos herself, entirely because the roster is composed of only the main characters of each game, and ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' is the only one to have a female lead. Secret fighter [[Final Fantasy XI|Shantotto]] does get a storyline all to herself. The side of evil is slightly fairer with [[Final Fantasy VIII|Ultimecia]] and [[Final Fantasy III|The Cloud of Darkness]] in their ranks, but the latter is questionable since "she" is technically female in physical form only and tends to [[Gender and Japanese Language|talk like an old man]]. It has the same problem that most of the main villains in the series are male. The upcoming Dissidia Duodecim additions of [[Final Fantasy VII|Tifa Lockhart]], [[Final Fantasy X|Yuna]] (who was the original pick to represent her game before settling on Tidus), [[Final Fantasy XI|Prishe]] and [[Final Fantasy XIII|Lightning]] alleviate this somewhat on the heroes' side, but the cast is still overwhelmingly male.

* In the first ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]'', all of the Seraphim (Michael, Uriel, Raphael, and Gabriel) were presumably male, but the second game reveals Gabriel is a girl, and all subsequent SMT and [[Persona]] games featuring Gabriel retain this.

** Heck, Virginia is considered [[The Hero|The Main Character]] of Wild Arms 3.

* Overall, the major ''[[Pokémon]]'' characters tend to lean in favor of males; only in ''Diamond'' and ''Pearl'' was a female Champion introduced, and it took until ''Black'' and ''White'' to introduce a female Pokémon Professor. In spite of this, the Gym Leaders and the Elite Four are normally reasonably balanced and the player has been able to play as a boy or a girl since ''Crystal''.

* ''[[Ape Escape]]'' series, Pink Monkey is one of the Freaky Monkey Five.

*** Billy Hatcher also only had one female chicken elder. The rest were male. In fact, her being the only female elder is [[Lampshade Hanging|noted by an NPC]].

** ''[[Crazy Taxi]]'' has four playable drivers, one woman.

** ''[[Final Fight|Final Fight 2]]'' and ''[[Final Fight|3]]'' has Maki and Lucia respectively. Both are [[Fragile Speedster]] naturally, but Lucia is actually a bit stronger than Guy (the token speedster in that game).

** ''[[Gauntlet (1985 video game)|Gauntlet]]'' has three male (Warrior, Wizard, Elf), one female (Valkyrie). Sequel ''Gauntlet Legends'' averts this by changing the androgynous-looking elf to a female elven Archer. ''Dark Legacy'' falls back in when adding four more characters to the exisitng four: three male (Dwarf, Knight, Jester) and one female (Sorceress). As well, the breasts on all the women became about [[Gag Boobs|twice the size of their heads]]. ''Seven Sorrows'' then goes back to the original four characters.

*** ''X8'' changes this slightly, as the three female operators are unlockable as bonus characters, each one emulating one of the main (male) characters to varying degrees of success. Alia isn't all that useful as she lacks X's ability to use different armor parts, but Layer is every bit as powerful (and badass) as Zero, and Palette lacks only Axl's ability to copy enemies (which is mostly used for the purpose of finding items rather than combat).

** The ''[[Mega Man Zero|Zero]]'' series began to turn the tables. The series had Ciel (the most important non-player character), Leviathan (one of the four Guardians, a [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] that evolved), Neige, and many of the bosses and Resistance [[Non-Player Character|NPCs]] are female.

** The ''[[Mega Man Battle Network|Battle Network]]'' series inherited the same problem as the original, since most of the Navis are based on original-series Robot Masters. However, there are ''lots'' of female human characters to make up for it.

*** Actually, one of the no-name NPCs you can talk to in the second game casually mentions "A cute girl like me wouldn't-", despite having a generic Navi NPC sprite ("commercial model", they're called in-game), albeit a red-hued version.

** The upcoming ''Rockman Online'' has four announced characters: X, Zero, Duo, and Cinnamon. Guess which one's the token chick.

** Starcraft: Ghost's main character was to be a female Ghost, not unlike Kerrigan. In its cinematic, she sits in the shadows of a Dropship on the way to the battle area. A macho Marine makes a sexist comment, and is silently stared down as she leans out of the shadows and is revealed to [[Samus Is a Girl|be a woman]].

* Many early computer games would let the players choose their gender (as well as, often, other attributes like name, race and age) at the start of the game (unless you were a [[Featureless Protagonist]], of course). As the amount of assets (graphics, voice acting, and sometimes even onscreen actors) needed to portray player characters increased, many studios discreetly dumped this feature. Modern games that let you choose a gender offer varying amounts of plot and gameplay branching as a result of the choice.

** And in ''Command'', there are a solid 4 females: Krystal, Kat, and newcomers Lucy (Peppy's daughter) and [[The Scrappy|Amanda]], Slippy's ''female'' love interest. There is even an all-girl mission.

** Then we have the 1993 [[Nintendo Power]] comics with [[Badass Damsel|Fara Phoenix]], Fox McCloud's future [[Love Interest]].

* Four main playable characters in ''[[The World Ends With You]]'', and you can count how many of them are female on the single hand of a blind butcher.

* ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' spinoff fighting only had Oichi as the only "true" playable female character of the sausage fighting fest. The rest of the girls are delegated to backup.

** Diablo I was either more or less balanced with the inclusion of the Hellfire expansion depending on how you approach it. It added the male monk class by default, plus mildly altered remakes of the Warrior and Rogue that could only be unlocked by futzing with a system file.

* ''[[Torchlight]]'' has the same gender ratio as ''Diablo I'' (not surprising, considering the similarity between the two games and many of the same developers). Also like ''Diablo'', the lone female happens to be the physical ranged damage dealer.

** Somewhat misleading also, as female Farseers in lore are actually a minority, and howling banshees are 50% male (though they still wear female armor and refer to themselves as the daughters of...some elder crone chick from their mythology. Reverse is true for the other aspect warriors, it's just not obvious.)

* ''[[Nezumi Man]]'' has Wave Nezumi, the only female boss of the eight. Kind of a coincidence then that her powers are the same element as Splash Woman's.

* The only females in the entirety of ''[[Half-Life (series)|Half-Life]]'' are the black-clad assassins that never speak and only appear in two areas. ''Half-Life 2'' however has an equal distribution of genders amongst the random civilians and [[La Résistance]] members as well as the inclusion of Alyx, who with ''Episode One'' and ''Episode Two'' has been elevated to Main Character status alongside Gordon.

* The playable characters in both ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' and its sequel consist of three men and one woman - neither is [[The Chick]], however, and they are both distinctly different from each other. This is explained as {{spoiler|the gene to be resistant to [[The Virus]] is recessive and carried on the x-chromosome. Women need two copies of the gene, while men only need one, explaining the genetically sound 3:1 ratio.}}

* ''[[Drakengard]]'': Aside from professionally [[Damsel in Distress]] Furiae, the only female character of note is Arioch. Who is a deranged, barren elf who [[Eats Babies|eats children]]. She isn't even the worst person in the party, which includes a sociopathic mass murderer who routinely kicks his own allies in the head, a senile, racist old man, a pedophile, and a six-year-old boy {{spoiler|who dooms the world out of petty spite}}.

* Several of the [[Ultima]] games have a less-than-favorable ratio. While the eight "Companions of the Avatar" had a 4:4 ratio, the females generally had worse stats. (By design in Katrina's case, as Shepherds by design aren't supposed to excel.) The trio of Iolo, Dupre and Shamino (all male) also kept gaining prominence over other characters as the game went on. The 8th and 9th games even disallowed playing as a female main character!

** ''[[Ace Combat 04 Shattered Skies]]'' gave us Yellow 4, the [[Cartwright Curse|Doomed Love Interest]] of the hero's rival, and the only female in her squadron.

** ''[[Ace Combat 5 The Unsung War]]'' featured the ''other'' Kei Nagase, the only female in the entire game until the brief late-mission appearance of Bartlett's old flame.

** ''[[Ace Combat 6 Fires of Liberation]]'' tried to address this issue by showing a part of the story through the eyes of Melissa and Ludmila, two female refugees wandering the war-torn Emmeria, looking for their daughter and fiance, respectively. Also, it had a Token Enemy Female, Irena Dvornik, as well as allied pilot Lanner.

*** On a more meta level, Janice is so far the ''only'' playable female character in a twenty years-old series. And only for half a mission.

* Noble Team in ''[[Halo: Reach]]'' has only one female Spartan, unless you make Noble Six female.

** More success was found with its successor shows, ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'', ''[[Animaniacs]]'', and ''[[Histeria!]]'': The first has Babs Bunny, who was Buster's equal in every way, as well as Shirley The Loon, Fifi LaFume, Merrie Melody, and so on. The second had Dot Warner (who was, of course, the only female Warner sibling, but she went to some effort to make sure she was not forgotten by adding "...and the Warner sister, Dot!" whenever an opportunity came up), and Slappy Squirrel. (Interestingly enough, the Warner Brothers were originally supposed to be a trio of ''brothers'' (Smakky, Wakky, and Yakky), with a mischievous little brother character instead of Dot, who was only supposed to be a minor recurring character of "the Warner Cousin". A woman on the production team finally asked that the characters be two male and one female and Wakky and Smakky were merged into Wakko.) And the third had Miss Information, Charity Bazaar, Aka Pella, Pepper Mills, Cho-Cho, Susanna Susquahanna, Lydia Karaoke, and the World's Oldest Woman in their regular cast.

*** A first season episode of ''Tiny Toons'', "Fields of Honey", actually revolved around Babs trying to find a female Looney Toon who could serve as her mentor. It turned out to be a black-and-white era character, Honey, whose comic schtick was not unlike hers; she had simply been forgotten. But note that in [[Real Life]], Honey existed—and she was merely [[Shallow Love Interest|Bosko's girlfriend]] and was ''nothing'' like the one portrayed here.

*** Her predecessor, Honey Bunny (no relation to Bosko's girlfriend Honey), was a staple of the old Gold Key and Whitman Looney Toons comic books for years and years. Sadly, Honey seems to have been largely forgotten since Lola was introduced.

* Most of the older [[Disney]] cartoon canon are male, and the females are often just [[Distaff Counterpart|stereotypical female versions]] of existing male characters, such as [[Minnie Mouse]] and Daisy Duck. Minnie's [[The Chick]] alright, but Daisy is pretty cool for her time, kinda [[Tsundere]]-like.

** It's also worth noting that in the sequel, ''Tales from Watership Down'', some females do get larger roles. A story about a doe-led warren is told, and the doe Hyzenthlay {{spoiler|becomes co-leader of the ''Watership Down'' rabbits}}. This was author Richard Adams' specific response to complaints that the first book was too testosterone-centric.

* For all their [[Emotional Torque|perfection]], one major complaint about [[Pixar]] is the lack of films that have passed the [[Useful Notes/The Bechdel Test|test]]:

*** Even though Toy Story 3 had many more female characters than the other two, I think it should be worth mentioning that {{spoiler|Andy got rid of Bo Peep}}.

** ''[[A Bug's Life|A Bugs Life]]'', despite having a few female royalties, is guilty of the [[Insect Gender Bender]]; biology dictates its protagonist should have been female. The Seven Samurai-esque troupe has a 3:1 (6:2) male-to-female ratio.

* ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (TV series)|Legion of Super Heroes]]'' started the show with female Legionnaires Saturn Girl, Phantom Girl, and Triplicate Girl. And then, in Season 2, [[Executive Meddling|the powers that be]] decided that male viewership would be put off by so many girls, so the girls were incapacitated and/or inexplicably sidelined for many episodes. Particularly irritating, as the Legion has [[Loads and Loads of Characters]] with a fairly even gender—and species—balance, and the comics have always averted this trope even all the way back to [[The Silver Age of Comic Books]]! The addition of Shrinking Violet in the same season was a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|very small]] counterbalance.

* The final season of ''[[The Batman]]'' featured the [[Justice League of America]], so every other episode was a crossover with a League member. Unfortunately, the League was a boy's club; no [[Wonder Woman]], [[Black Canary]], [[Vixen (comics)|Vixen]], [[Huntress]], or any other DC heroine. Worse, Batman always brought Robin along on these adventures; never Batgirl, despite her being his first sidekick (in this show anyway), and older to boot. Granted, they at least ''wanted'' to have Wonder Woman, but the rights to the character were not available.

* In ''[[The Land Before Time]]'', the ratio of male to female was originally going to be 4:1. The character Cera was originally going to be male, thus being a basic rival for Littlefoot, while Ducky would have been the only female and a fairly stereotypical one at that. However [[George Lucas]] realised that Cera's gender had no real bearing on the plot and asked if Cera could be a female—but keeping the character's personality exactly the same. The result was a memorably less clichéd female character and an unusual (for the time) male/female rivalry.

** In ''[[The Land Before Time]] [[Sequelitis|IV]]'', a guest character called Ali is introduced who is the same species as Littlefoot—but she's a girl. To get the effect, the animators made her look ''exactly'' like Littlefoot, only she has blue eyes instead of red, [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics|slightly longer eyelashes and her skin is a little redder]] (which [[Pink Girl, Blue Boy|turns pink in the dark for some bizarre reason]]).

* In ''[[Back at the Barnyard]]'', there are only two cow characters that are biologically deserving of the udders they all retain. Naturally, they're left out of most of the action, instead mainly offering [[Positive Discrimination|level-headed]] advice that no one takes to.

** As well as Ella, Maddie, and a number of female extras.

** Sometimes it [[Depending on the Writer|depends on the writer]], since some episodes show Timmy as [[The Hero]] but Wanda as the one who gets to say "I told you so!" Besides, with the many girl characters for Timmy to be paired with (Tootie, Trixie, Veronica, Vicky for some people), Timmy's mom, the principal Ms. Waxoplax, the ratio is probably about even (if anyone was willing to count it!)

* ''[[Ōban Star-Racers|Oban Star Racers]]'': Odd example played straight. The only prominent female character is Eva/Molly, the main character. This is somewhat justified among the humans because of Race Manager Don Wei's belief that [[Stay in the Kitchen|women shouldn't be racers]]. However, Eva is strong willed and independent, and the few flashbacks we see of her mother show us that Eva's mom, {{spoiler|a star racer killed in a crash}}, was also strong willed.

* ''[[Xiaolin Showdown]]'' - Kimiko is the only female on the Xiaolin side, while Kannappe, Wuya, Clay's sister, and the evil mermaid make up the Heylin (evil) side. This almost seems to imply that Kimiko is the only female member because she is the exception to the rule of females automatically calling for the side of evil.

* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' sort of counts: despite a half-dozen [[Scout Out|Fireside Girls]], [[The Chick|Isabella]] is the only girl in Phineas and Ferb's group with any significant personality. The creators have since developed the Fireside Girls a ''bit'' more, and there are plenty of other notable female characters, particularly [[The Cassandra|Candace]], [[Asian Airhead|Stacy]], [[Hot Mom|Linda]], and [[Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter|Vanessa]].

** ''[[Action League NOW]]'''s only main female was Thundergirl, and Justice (the dog) since it switched from male to female in some episodes.

* The cartoon adaptation of ''[[Redwall|Martin the Warrior]]'' averted this by changing the normally 3:1 ratio to 2:2, by making Pallum the Hedgehog a girl.

* The extent to which the principle is used in ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' is debatable. The family itself definitely doesn't suffer, with more females than males. However, aside from the Simpsons and Bouviers, Mrs. Krabappel is the only female character whose development and importance in the overall series (e.g, the number of episodes in which she is a main character) is on par with the dozens of supporting male characters. All the other women are wives, mothers, or classmates of more important characters. This can be overlooked, though, as there are a lot of female guest stars and one-time characters.

* ''[[The BOTS Master]]'' has this too. The good guys have two girls in their ranks: Blitzy, ZZ's kid sister, and Swang, the only (confirmed) female [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|boyzz]] out of twenty. There was once another female introduced, Momzz, but she semi-died by the end of the episode. The bad guys are a bit better in that respect. With only three individuals in the core group, the one female among them has a relatively bigger input.

* Played straight on ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers]]'', as Niko was the [[Action Girl]], and had the stereotypical [[Psychic Powers]]. Series creator Robert Mandell attempted to compensate by keeping the [[Distress Ball]] evenly passed and by throwing in some awesome guest characters, such as Daisy O'Mega and Audra Miles. The [[Big Bad]] of the series was a case of [[God Save Us From the Queen]], and a truly dangerous threat.

** However, Mandell ''inverted'' the Trope with ''[[Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders]]''. Barely a Y chromosome to be seen.