Your Tomcat Is Pregnant: Difference between revisions

 

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== Anime and Manga ==

* In ''[[Aria]]'' (the manga, at least), President Maa is normally refered as Maa-kun and thought to be a male cat, until the trio went to the vet for annual cat vaccine injection, which then reveals that Maa is female. They threw around the idea of calling her "Maa-chan", but by then they'd called her "Maa-kun" for so long that calling her -chan wouldn't have felt right.

 

== Comic Books ==

* In the long running ''[[Giles]]'' comic, the children get Grandma a parrot for Christmas. They name it '[[Attila the Hun]]'. Attila later lays eggs.

* Although not revealed in-story, this is presumably why [[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|May Parker]] owns a male dog called Ms Lion in ''[[Pet Avengers|Lockjaw and the Pet Avengers]]''. Apparently, she ''hasn't'' found out yet.

 

== Film ==

* The [[Walt Disney]] live-action film ''The Three Lives of Thomasina'' has this as part of the [[Backstory]], explaining the titular cat's name. [[Fridge Logic|Seems a little odd]] that this mixup occurred with a cat who lived in a veterinarian's home.

{{quote|'''Thomasina''': They started out by calling me Thomas, but when they, um, got to know me better, they changed it to Thomasina.}}

* Played straight in [[Arthur C. Clarke]]'s short story "The Haunted Space Suit." The protagonist, hearing muffled sounds in his suit halfway through an EVA, begins to believe the suit is haunted by the ghost of a former colleague who may - or may not - have died while wearing it. Halfway through requesting a check on the suit's history, he is reduced to incoherent screaming panic when something ''actually'' pats him on the back of the neck. Turns out the ship's cat, Tommy, is badly misnamed... and had found a very interesting place to have 'his' kittens.

 

* Happened in the American ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' pilot.

** Also in the original ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' episode "Pete", in which Pete the sparrow is accidentally turned into a tyrannosaurus. At the end of the episode, after they manage to turn Pete back into a sparrow, they come across a dinosaur egg. (A deleted scene elaborates that, yes, Pete is a girl).

 

== Music ==

* "Saturday Morning Confusion" by Bobby Russell includes the following lines:

{{quote|''It's a Saturday morning confusion.

 

== Theatre ==

* In the stage play (and book, and film) ''I Remember Mama'', the youngest daughter's beloved cat, "Elizabeth", is revealed by the girl's brother to be a tom. When the girl presses him on how he found this out, he says "I looked!" before their mother shushes him.

** And the cat is promply renamed "Uncle Elizabeth".

 

== Video Games ==

* In ''[[Heart De Roommate]]'', Tomoe's fat cat, Toshibo, starts feeling sick. When the heroes take Toshibo to their teacher for help, they learn that "he" is pregnant. The revelation that Toshibo is female was revealed to the player in the previous chapter, however.

* In ''[[Pokémon Red and Blue]]'', genders were not displayed for most Pokémon. In ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver]]'' - compatible with the first - they were. Woe betide any Pokémon who is given a gender-specific nickname in the first gen and traded to the second.

 

== Web Comics ==

* Happened in the webcomic ''[[Girly]]'', where the cat that the main characters took in got really fat before giving birth, much to their surprise. A bigger surprise is when they find out who's the father, the black cat with the ear splitting cry.

* Happened in ''[[Sam and Fuzzy]]'', kicking off the chapter ''Tiny Miracles''.

 

== Western Animation ==

* In the ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' episode "One of a Kind", Danny finds himself in a literally awkward position when he discovers the gorilla he is researching to raise his grade is actually female.

{{quote|'''Mr. Lancer:''' ''[in class, reading from an article]'' "Brooding genius, Daniel Fenton did what no other researcher dared to do. He got close enough to this rare purple-back gorilla to realize that Sampson was actually a Delilah." ''[stops, indignant]'' Nobody at that zoo ever bothered to see if it was boy or a girl?

 

== Real Life ==

* The reverse occurred on Ernest Shackleton's expedition to Antarctica. A tabby was taken aboard the ''Endurance'' by a member of the crew and named Mrs. Chippy. A month after setting sail, it was discovered Mrs. Chippy was actually male, but by then the name had stuck.

** It was a kind of tragic discovery really; they had gotten two cubs, a boy and a girl. One sickened and died, and they thought it was the boy (there was a lot going on at the time and there was apparently a mix-up). It wasn't until Amy grew up a little more that they realized which it really was.

* Zookeepers do their best to avoid this trope with captive-bred bird hatchlings or other animals in which gender is not externally apparent. Names aren't assigned to such juveniles until blood tests or the emergence of sex-based traits in adulthood eliminates any doubt.

* The genus name for the beaver is Castor, as it is not possible to tell males from females without... um... ''very'' close inspection; thus, the main reason beavers do not normally fall foul of this trope is that few people keep them as pets—however, the capacity for tragicomedy exists.

 

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[[Category:Gender Reveal]]

[[Category:Gender Blending Tropes]]

[[Category:Pet and Animal Companion Tropes]]