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[[File:SmurfSexRatio.jpg|link=The Smurfs|frame|Take note of the Male-to-Female ratio.]]
 
{{quote|"''YourYou'ere not as smart as [[Hot Scientist|Stewart]]. But, you're the only girl in town. ''"|'''Taylor''', ''[[Planet of the Apes]]''}}
|'''Taylor'''|''[[Planet of the Apes]]''}}
 
{{quote|"''I'm the only girl.''"|'''Marzipan''', ''[[Homestar Runner]]''}}
|'''Marzipan'''|''[[Homestar Runner]]''}}
 
''For any series not aimed solely at females, odds are high that only one female will be in the regular cast.''
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*** 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.
** In the 1980s, Disney briefly tried to revive the classic Disney characters through such madness as [[We Are're Still Relevant, Dammit!|making Donald a skateboarder and Goofy a fighter pilot a la]] ''[[Top Gun]]''. However, there was a considerable upshot to this: Minnie Mouse became a far more interesting character than she'd ever been after fifty years of being "Mickey's girlfriend". As a matter of fact, she mimicked the young Madonna (in a kid-friendly way, of course). She had her own "Totally Minnie" album (much [[Better Than It Sounds]]), her own television special, and... very quickly and sadly devolved back into [[The Chick]] once this was all scrapped and Disney fired up the cutesy-poo "Minnie and Me" merchandise line, where she once again donned her polka-dot dress and giggled over Mickey. ''Sigh...''
** Minnie got revamped again for the ''[[House of Mouse]]'' series, and while Mickey was still the "boss", as the club's owner and emcee, more often than not Minnie was the one giving ''him'' orders, being the show producer and club accountant, and very competent at the job. Sadly, again, this didn't last, and once the next series came around, she was ''again'' [[The Chick]]. ''[[House of Mouse]]'' also resurrected Clarabelle Cow as a recurring character, and commonly featured female musical guests, though the ratio was still heavily in favor of the guys.
* In ''[[Transformers]]'', you can count the female Transformers who appeared more than once in a series on both hands. [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/List_of_female_Transformers A list of all female Transformers can be found here].
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