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''For any series not aimed solely at females, odds are high that only one female will be in the regular cast.''
'''The Smurfette Principle''' is the tendency for works of fiction to have exactly one female amongst an ensemble of male characters, in spite of the fact that roughly half of the human race is female. Unless a show is purposefully aimed at a female viewing audience, the main characters will tend to be disproportionately male.
In many series, men will have various different personalities, but women will always be [[The Chick]]. Thus, by the [[Law of Conservation of Detail]], you only need one.
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** In the British Godzilla knock-off ''[[Gorgo]]'', the ''monster'' (the big one at least) is female, but there are no female human characters ''at all''. In the ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' version, this made it difficult for the bots to complete their "Women of Gorgo" calendar.
* ''Bimbos in Time'' inverts this by having only one male character in the hero team (referred to as "the male Bimbo"); indeed, the only other male character with a major role in the story is the villain.
* Dorothy Lamour in the [[Bob Hope]]/[[Bing Crosby]] "[[Road To|Road]]" movies (''[[Road to Morocco]]'', etc). [[Roger Ebert]] referred to "Dorothy Lamour Syndrome" in his Little Movie Glossary; when two men and one woman have a dialogue in a movie, the woman is usually reduced to looking back and forth between the two men as they talk. Lamour had an excuse, as Hope and Crosby were frequently off-script and adlibbing.
* ''[[Ocean's
** The second movie averts it by bringing in Catherine-Zeta Jones, and the third movie plays it straight by dropping [[Julia Roberts]] and Jones and bringing in Ellen Barkin. It should be noted that all three of these women were a love interest for one of the main (male) characters.
* ''[[Prince of Persia: The
* ''[[Inception]]'' has a crew of around six guys and one girl. There is one other important female character, and {{spoiler|for most of the film, she's a projection of the main (male) character's subconscious.}}
* The casting for ''[[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]]'' is even ''less'' balanced than the Sixties teams. While the original team had a 4-1 ratio (Hulk left almost as soon as Cap joined) and the second had a 3-1 ratio, the movie's inclusion of Fury and Agent Coulson as "title" characters currently puts the central cast at ''7''-1. Needless to say, some chunks of fandom took note. Maria Hill was added to adjust the ratio a little.
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