There Are No Girls on the Internet: Difference between revisions

 

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* Part of why so many people were in denial about Tsukasa in the ''[[.hack]]'' series. The series averts this in general, there's literally only two cases of a male pretending to be female.

** The shippers sure didn't help much.

* [[Durarara!!]] Kanra=Izaya. And he's particularly girly online, leading to many fanworks of him crossdressing to get "in character." Also, {{spoiler|it's suspected in the novels that Pure Water 100% is Aoba pretending to be a girl.}}

** Kind of subverted in that Setton (a basically androgynous user) turns out to be Celty, and Saika is a girl... well, originally a knife, but NOW a girl...

 

* In ''[[Ultimate X-Men]]'', Hank McCoy believes that he is spending his time chatting with a supermodel mutant named Naomi. It's actually the Blob, searching for info on Magneto's death. {{spoiler|1=Cue things turning sour, when Hank accidentally lets it slip that Magneto's still alive and agrees to meet "Naomi", only to have Brotherhood telepaths rip their leader's location out of McCoy's head}}. Blob even says that everyone on the internet is either guys or guys pretending to be girls.

 

* ''[[The Matrix]]'': Neo is surprised that "Trinity" is a woman, he thought it was a guy. She replies that most guys assume she is a man, mocking the trope.

** Earlier in the drafts, "Switch" was intended to be a female in the Matrix and a male in the real world.

* In ''[[Cube|Cube 2: Hypercube]]'', the (female) protagonist is surprised to find out that the legendary hacker "Alex Trusk" is a girl, as the guy who originally told her about Alex assumed "he" must be male.

 

* In ''Mike Nelson's Movie Megacheese'', Mike interrupts his review of ''You've Got Mail'' to remind us that not only is Meg Ryan not chatting with us online, but that "''no one who looks like Meg Ryan is chatting with you, either. No one named Meg is chatting with you... Guys, if there's a void in your life that you think is being filled online, keep in mind the person doing it has a beer gut and is named Dan, and remember that you're also filling a void in his life. Ladies... well, you don't need any advice, because you don't chat online.''"

 

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'': "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S29/E10 Blink|Blink]] -

{{quote|'''Larry Nightingale''': Me and the guys are trying to work out the other half.

* Subverted in the episode "Computer Date" of the short-lived (1992-93) [[FOX]] series ''[[Down the Shore]]'' where the girl in question ended up being not only real, but played by [[Kathy Ireland]].

 

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* For a while, some users playing lady Night Elves in''[[World of Warcraft]]'' got the idea of stripping off their armor and doing the /dance animation on top of the Ironforge mailbox for tips. Doing so was an immediate way to be branded a male gamer.

 

* ''[[Sabrina Online]]'' mentions this quite early.

* On the gaming note, ''[[Sequential Art (webcomic)|Sequential Art]]'', Pip gets into "[[World of Warcraft|Realm of Lorcraft]]", an MMORPG, and starts going on quests with a player in possession of a [[Hot Amazon|hot female avatar]]. Art convinces him that it's probably a "fat, bald man with B.O." on the other end. (Cue the next panel, which shows an actual hot chick(that actually looks almost ''exactly'' like said avatar) on her bed, at the laptop, unsuccessfully searching for Pip's character...)

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* Tucker of ''Red vs. Blue'' fame says this at one point to his alien baby, advising him, among other things, that "all the girls on the internet are actually dudes".

** Red Vs. Blue also did this in its "Real Life Vs. Internet" PSA, in a skit with Donut (a gay male character with pink armor) pretending to be the girl and Simmons playing a skeptical guy.

 

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[[Category:Discredited Trope]]

[[Category:Gender and Sexuality Tropes]]

[[Category:Rules of the Internet]]