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** Averted in Part 6, where the primary protagonist and two of her closest allies are women, with at least a couple of female antagonists.
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' inverts this, Tuxedo Mask and Artemis being the only male (non-villain) primary character.
== Board Games ==▼
* [[Chess]] has only one female character, the queen, which makes sense since the names are inspired by medieval warfare. However, [[God Save Us From the Queen|she is also the most powerful piece.]]▼
* The ''Guess Who?'' game (in the late 80’s) had exactly 5 girls and like 35 guys. This was a game of yes/no questions about appearance. If you drew a card w/ a girl on it you were almost sure to lose that round. Women were truly an “unusual subtype”. They were rarer than bald people, people with glasses, and gingers.▼
== Card Games ==▼
* The [[Star Wars Customizable Card Game]] has exactly ''one'' female Imperial: Mara Jade. Female Rebels are half as rare: Leia and Mon Mothma. Female aliens are far more common, though.▼
== Comics ==
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* ''[[100 Bullets|One Hundred Bullets]]'' has one female Minuteman (who is arguably [[The Chick]]), one powerful businesswoman with [[Absolute Cleavage]], and a lot of scantily-clad female walk-on characters. The rest of the cast is male.
* According to Norwegian Scholar Jon Gisle, the population of [[Disney Ducks Comic Universe|Duckburg]] is about 80% male.
* In ''[[Scott Pilgrim]]'', one of Ramona's evil ex-boyfriends {{spoiler|is actually a girl.}}
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in ''[[Youngblood: Judgment Day]]'', where Glory is keen to the idea of re-forming the Allies of Justice because she enjoys being the only woman in a team of men—it's implied that it makes her feel like she's the one in charge.
* Platnium was the only female member of the [[Metal Men]]. Tin later created Nameless, who didn't really do much other than act as his girlfriend. Right before the [[Cerebus Syndrome]] [[Retool]], [[Team Dad|Doc Magnus]] created [[Distaff Counterpart]]s of the team, but they were one-off characters. In recent years, the team finally gained a bona-fide second female member, [[Deadpan Snarker|Copper]].
* The newspaper comic ''Tumbleweeds'' had two Smurfettes—Hildegarde Hamhocker among the townsfolk of Grimy Gulch, and Little Flower among the Poohawks. Aside from Hildegarde's little niece Echo, other female characters are extremely rare (if not non-existent) in the strip.
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== Tabletop Games ==
▲=== Board Games ===
▲* [[Chess]] has only one female character, the queen, which makes sense since the names are inspired by medieval warfare. However, [[God Save Us From the Queen|she is also the most powerful piece.]]
▲* The ''Guess Who?'' game (in the late 80’s) had exactly 5 girls and like 35 guys. This was a game of yes/no questions about appearance. If you drew a card
* While the ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' fluff contains a good number of female characters, there are very few of those that can be used in-game.
** 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.
* The fantasy origin of ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'', ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' is, if anything, worse. While it ''is'' set in a medieval society, the only women who show up in the setting are sex demons (literally), [[Lesbian Vampire]]s, [[The Fair Folk|capricious forest spirits]], evil witch elves (who abduct young males so they can [[Blood Bath|bathe in their blood]] to become beautiful), and some nuns(?!) in a spin-off game.
▲=== Card Games ===
▲* The ''[[Star Wars Customizable Card Game]]'' has exactly ''one'' female Imperial: Mara Jade. Female Rebels are half as rare: Leia and Mon Mothma. Female aliens are far more common, though.
=== Tabletop RPG ===
* ''[[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.
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