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** ''[[Only You Can Save Mankind]]'' inverts this trope: the Gunnery Officer on the ScreeWee ship is the token male on a ship crewed by females.

** In ''[[Good Omens]],'' [[Tomboy|Pepper]] and [[Lady of War|War]] are the only girls in their respective groups (a gang of children for Pepper, the [[Horsemen of the Apocalypse]] for War). There are, however, several other female characters in the story.

* ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'' averts this to the extent that it seems deliberate. The Baudelaires are one male, two female; their counterparts the Quagmires are one female, two male. Count Olaf's theater troupe contains two men, two women and "a person who [[Ambiguous Gender|looks neither like a man nor a woman]]".

* R.A. Salvatore's ''[[Icewind Dale]]'' series (of the [[Forgotten Realms]]) originally did not have any major female characters. But soon he learned that [[Executive Meddling|further books of his would be rejected if he didn't add one]]. And thus Catti-Brie was given the literary equivalent of [[Promotion to Opening Titles]].