History Main / MonogenderMonsters

Subtrope of OneGenderRace. See DesignatedGirlFight. Contrast FemaleMonsterSurprise.

* All of the zombies in the original ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'' and both ''[[VideoGame/PlantsVsZombiesGardenWarfare Garden Warfare]]'' games are exclusively male, in contrast to the more gender-diverse Plants. Female zombies are finally introduced halfway through the second game, ''[[VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies2ItsAboutTime It's About Time]]''[[note]]starting with "Big Wave Beach"[[/note]]. Female zombies have appeared more frequently ever since, in games like ''[[VideoGame/PlantsVsZombiesHeroes Heroes]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/PlantsVsZombiesBattleForNeighborville Battle For Neighborville]]''.

* ''VideoGame/EverQuestII:'' {{Lampshaded}} with the "Orcs of Norrath" book, where the researcher who studied the Orc race for most of his life seems rather baffled why a female orc has never actually been seen. The best he can conclude is that they are so incredibly rare, that those who are born are used as a BabyFactory deep in some secluded area where they'd never see the light of day.
* The Super Mutants of ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' all look male, but it's revealed in files that the FEV virus which creates them makes both genders visually identical (secondary sexual characteristics like breasts and high-pitched voices disappear). Indeed, in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas,'' there are several female Super Mutants who, yes, sound exactly like the men (though they don't necessarily act like the men; one is a sweet old granny).

* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': Because the Orcs from the show are close in design to those from the movies, is quite hard to distinguish male from female. Even if female Orcs might exist , their are probably outnumbered by their male peers, as all the named Orcs and those with speaking lines were male.

Along with MonsterOfTheAesop there's a tendency for all the monsters in a given show to be male or female; rarely will there be a mixed bag. The exception is if the TheDragon or the BigBad are a different gender and deign to fight the heroes. And much like MonsterMisogyny applied in reverse, guy heroes will only fight guy monsters, and girl heroines will only fight girl monsters. Though girl heroes fighting male monsters is not uncommon either, [[MenAreTheExpendableGender male is kinda of the default gender for]] {{Mooks}} ([[TheSmurfettePrinciple if not the default gender in fiction]]).

* While some male superheroes have at least one or two well-known female villains, the vast majority of Franchise/SpiderMan, Franchise/{{Superman}} and Franchise/TheFlash's rogues are men, and their few recurring villainesses--such as Calypso or Syrene-- have not entered pop culture quite like the ComicBook/GreenGoblin and ComicBook/LexLuthor. In contrast, the vast majority of enemies of female heroes like Franchise/WonderWoman and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} are female.

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* The goblins from ''Literature/GoblinSlayer'' are exclusively male. They mate with (read: ''rape'') human or elven women to create more goblins.

* All the Mogwai and Gremlins seen in the ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'' movies are (ambiguously) male save Greta, the one female in the [[Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch second movie]], who was only such because she had gotten a hold of a gender-changing potion in a lab. Any reproductive processes not involving a splash of water are not discussed.

* All Orcs mentioned by name in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' novels are male. However, since Tolkien had written that "Orcs multiply after the fashion of the Children of Ilúvatar", i.e. elves and men, there must have been female Orcs somewhere, but given the times and his source materials Tolkein probably just discounted them. There aren't a lot of females on the heroic side either.

* The [[RatMen taratzes]] from the German SF series ''Literature/{{Maddrax}}'' are mostly male. When a pack of them attacks, both male and female taratzes will fight. But almost all taratzes known by name are male.

* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' tends to limit itself to two female monsters per season, though there ''is'' always at least one female [[TheDragon Dragon]].
** Though a lot of monsters tend to be gender ambiguous at best.

* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', there appear to be no female giants. There are also no Female Draugr, although due to randomly generated clothing you may occasionally encounter a crossdressing Draugr.

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' has quite a few single-gender mons, starting with the Nidorans in ''Red and Blue''.
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'', the thieves have an ability "Steal Heart" that charms the opponent, but only those of the opposite gender of the user. All monsters are considered male with regards to this ability, which means [[GameFavoredGender female thieves have an advantage]]. [[BellisariosMaxim Don't think about this too hard.]]
* Lampshaded in ''VideoGame/TitanQuest'', where you end up fighting hordes of assorted beastmen of various types (Satyrs, Centaurs, Crocodilemen, Tigerfolk and demons of Hades) but they're usually all males. The LampshadeHanging comes from a letter you can find on a rare boss which actually points out how odd is that there are no female satyrs or male [[CatGirl Maenads]] around, and fears that they'll be called sexists.
* Downplayed in ''Videogame/{{Drakensang}}'': while there ''are'' female Dwarves (and you can istantly recognize their gender with a look), the playable chatacter can only choose male Dwarves. All Orcs, Ogres and Trolls (in both games) are male though, while Goblins are mostly male with a single female NPC in both games.

* While ''Anime/SailorMoon'' arguably popularized the female MonsterOfTheWeek and MonsterOfTheAesop tropes, and unlike ''Cutie Honey'' usually gave those girl monsters super model proportions and porn star attire, the show actually averted this trope throughout its run: monsters were generally a mixed bag of genders, even when having mixed genders wouldn't make sense, like the fake-sailor-senshi Phages from the ''Stars'' season. Usually it depends on their origins: Manufactured monsters such as 1st season's early youmas and 3rd season's daimons are all female, but monsters resulting from some kind of TheCorruption or DemonicPossession such as 1st season's latter youmas and 5th season's phages follow their victims' genders. Then there are other examples such as Fisheye from the Amazon Trio in the fourth season who only targeted males and thus only summoned male lemures to fight the Sailor Scouts. The only reason people ''think'' the show followed this rule is because female monsters were more common during the more popular seasons.

* Based on their voices and booklet art, all of [[NightOfTheLivingMooks the Marriages]] of ''AudioPlay/StrikersSoundStageX'' appear to be female.

* Zig-zagged in ''Manga/{{Claymore}}''. The [[AmazonBrigade all-female]] Claymore warriors mostly fight male Youma, but the most powerful Youma are the Awakened Beings, who are female due to [[WasOnceAMan being former Claymores themselves]]. One of the first big {{Plot Twist}}s of the story comes when the characters encounter a ''male'' Awakened Being. [[spoiler:In fact ''most'' Awakened Beings of note seem to be male - unknown to the protagonists at the time, the reason Claymores are always women is because the Organization's initial male Claymores were much more vulnerable to Awakening, and large numbers of them managed to escape before they could be put down. Due to improvements in Claymore technology over time, however, younger Awakened Beings tend to be stronger than older ones of equal rank, and the absolute strongest enemies in the series are female.]]
* In ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica,'' all witches are all female... [[EldritchAbomination not that you could tell by looking at them]]. This is because [[spoiler:they're actually [[TheCorruption corrupted]] [[MagicalGirl magical girls]]]].

* All vampires in ''Film/WeAreTheNight'' are female. The male vampires were killed by the female vampires two hundred years before the plot. And they vowed never to turn a man into a vampire again.
** Inverted in an alternate scene and the book to the film. There a young policeman who is in love with the heroine of the film is turned into a vampire by her.

* This is what everyone thought about the Dragon Princesses from ''Literature/InCryptid''. Turns out that they're [[spoiler: female dragons with an extreme case of sexual dimorphism and the ability to produce daughters through parthenogenesis. They need to mate with male dragons to produce more males and periodically introduce some genetic variation into the females.]]

* Sensibly enough, it's impossible to play a male Amazon in ''VideoGame/{{Drakensang}}''. Or encounter one for that matter.
* The Helazoid race in ''VideoGame/{{Wizardry}} VII: Crusaders of the Dark Savant'' are a thriving all-female culture. Justified by their use of advanced technology to reproduce and only produce female children.

# It's a lot easier on the costume/animation department if everything is fairly uniform across the board for the generic cannon fodder and slightly less generic MonsterOfTheWeek. There's also an easy story justification when monsters are involved: simply put, they are all modified forms of one design, pressed from a single mold, created by the same spell or, in the case of the first generation of [[Franchise/StarWars Imperial Storm Troopers]], [[CloningBlues cloned]] from the same guy.

* The three peanut butter monsters in ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' are all female, since they're all [[CloningBlues genetically identical.]]

* The goblins from ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'' are exclusively male. They mate with (read: ''rape'') human or elven women to create more goblins.

* The ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' movies had only male orcs in line with its source material, though in the final movie there are two orcs that appear to be strikingly female, like the one who orders for the catapults during the Minas Tirith battle, and some orcs, such as the one who inspects a freshly born Uruk-Hai in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing The Fellowship of the Ring]]'', were played by women. Whether they were meant to ''be'' orc women, who knows...

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* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', there appear to be no female giants.
** There are also no Female Draugr, although due to randomly generated clothing you may occasionally encounter a crossdressing Draugr

* The Helazoid race in ''VideoGame/{{Wizardry}} VII: Crusaders of the Dark Savant'' are a thriving all-female culture. Justified by their use of advanced technology to reproduce and only produce female children.

* In ''VideoGame/WarCraft'' all Harpies are females.

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', almost all of the beastmen are a mixture of male and females, but they all have builds that look more suited to males. The Anata are a race of snake people that are exclusively all female and they find the concept of other races needing males to reproduce a little odd.

* All of the zombies in the original ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'' and both ''[[VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies Garden Warfare]]'' games are exclusively male, in contrast to the more gender-diverse Plants. Female zombies are finally introduced halfway through the second game, ''[[VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies2ItsAboutTime It's About Time]]''[[note]]starting with "Big Wave Beach"[[/note]]. Female zombies have appeared more frequently ever since, in games like ''[[VideoGame/PlantsVsZombiesHeroes Heroes]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/PlantsVsZombiesBattleForNeighborville Battle For Neighborville]]''.

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* Besides Pyramid Head and the Abstract Daddy ([[spoiler:which is a monster created by Angela's mind]]), all the monsters in ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'' are vaguely feminine in appearance. As an inverse of the usual usage of this trope, it makes the male player character fighting them more disturbing.

* The goblins from ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'' are exclusively male. They mate with human or elven women to create more goblins.