History Main / SexyDimorphism

* [[Comicbook/FantasticFour The Skrulls']] appearance tends to vary a lot DependingOnTheArtist (and this makes sense in-universe, since they're a race of shapeshifters and can adjust their features however they like), but it's generally consistent that their trademark ridged, lumpy chins are much more exaggerated and grotesque on males, but understated and often scarcely noticeable on females.

* ''Literature/BookOfTheNewSun'': Abaia and Charybdis are mountain-sized, multi-headed tentacle things. Their daughter-wives, the Undine, are beautiful albino women who are indistinguishable from humans other than being 60 feet tall.

** The three of the four playable BeastMan races, [[ALoadOfBull Tauren]], [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Worgen]] and [[PandaingToTheAudience Pandaren]] also use this trope, with animalistic males (hunched back and savage facial features in the first two, large {{Acrofatic}} build in the third), whereas the females have more human-like build, erect posture, visible breasts and slightly more anthropomorphic facial features. The more recently added [[FoxFolk Vulpera]] avoid this, with both males and females being equally anthropomorphic (which is to say, both are very human-like rather than just the women).

* ''VideoGame/LegendsOfRuneterra'' stumbled into a bit of this with regards to [[ALoadOfBull minotaurs]] -- all male minotaurs (including the playable Alistar of ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'') are giant mountains of bulky muscle, whereas the "[[https://lor.mobalytics.gg/cards/04NX010 Thorn of the Rose]]" depicts the first female minotaur as ''very'' skinny and curvaceous, to the point that many fans were confused and assumed the was just a normal human with a bull-shaped mask. However, the "[[https://lor.mobalytics.gg/cards/04NX022 Ruined Reckoner]]" released not long after depicts another female minotaur who's just as big and muscular as her male kin, [[ZigZaggingTrope so it doesn't seem to be a universal rule.]]

* ''Manga/TwelveBeast'', by the same author as ''Monster Musume'', treats minotaurs the same way, with males being the typical [[ALoadOfBull bull-men]] while females are tall, muscular and buxom women with hooves, tails and horns... and whose standard casualwear seems to be cow-print bikinis.

* In ''VideoGame/BunnyMustDie'', female bunnies look like anime bunnygirls, while male bunnies look like actual rabbits.

'''Image of a male and female rat:''' I will now buy your game

--> Seriously it's 2017 I expect better from everyone by now. Stop doing this shit. I will now buy your game.

* Mermaids in ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'' are of this variety. Mermen are more fishlike and start out as fish with legs when they are born, while mermaids are more mammalian in structure and fit the typical depiction of mermaids (gorgeous human top half, fish tail bottom half).

*** The gender roles are sometimes reversed, like with the farmer's robot daughters (two of which are humanoid but the one Bender finds most attractive is some kind of sentient harvester vehicle) or the computer that a couple of human women in their underwear are "undressing" by taking off its' shell.

[[caption-width-right:192:It's either this or [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics we put a bow on her]].[[note]][[UncannyValley I'll take the bow, thanks.]][[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:192:It's either this or [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics we put a bow on her]].]]

* ''Manga/MonsterMusume'': Played with as the series goes on, with some of the rare few extra-liminal species males appearing just as good-looking as their female counterparts. ''Definitely'' played straight where the centaurs are concerned, where the males are complete Gonks with brains to match while the centauresses are [[AmazonianBeauty considerably more appealing]].
** The short-lived browser game based on the series makes [[OurOrcsAreDifferent orc]] into a straight example too: while the males seen in the manga look like typical JRPG PigMan orcs, the orc woman in the game looks like a buxom, bodybuilding green-skinned [[GyaruGirl gyaru]].

** On the Alliance side, the Draenei are even more dimorphic than the orcs and trolls of the Horde. The men are large, hulking brutes with [[{{Cthulhumanoid}} a beard of tentacles]], whereas the women are pretty and slender, with small horns on their head. The only similarity between the two genders is their blue skin, hooves and tails. The females also get a curve-emphasizing "high heels" (hips back, chest out) posture from their hooved legs, which might be logical if not for the fact that the equally hooved males don't.

** On the Alliance side, the Draenei are even more dimorphic than the orcs and trolls of the Horde. The men are large, hulking brutes with [[{{Cthulhumanoid}} a beard of tentacles]], whereas the women are pretty and slender, with small horns on their head. The only similarity between the two genders is their blue skin, hooves and tails.
** Downplayed with Blood Elves. At first the males and females [[{{Elfeminate}} looked similar]], but following player feedback the males were changed to be exactly the same sort of HeroicBuild as their Night Elf counterparts. In this case, however, both males and females are attractive by human standards.

SisterTrope to UglyGuyHotWife and BeastAndBeauty; this trope is similar to those appearance dynamics but applied to all members of the same species. Related to CuteMonsterGirl, when female monsters are drawn in a sexy, anthropomorphic way and HumanoidFemaleAnimal, which covers artistic representation of female anthropomorphic characters. In science fiction, the females of a Sexily Dimorphic species are often {{Green Skinned Space Babe}}s. Tends to be an AlwaysFemale trope. May result in NonMammalianMammaries. For particularly egregious cases of this, see OnlyOneFemaleMold

* ''[[WesternAnimation/PixarShorts Lava]]'' is a {{Downplayed}} case. The male volcano is short, squat, and looks like an ordinary volcano that had eyes and a mouth carved into it's side, the female volcano is taller, slimmer, [[FurryFemaleMane has hardened lava running down her "spout" made to look like hair]], and is noticeably more attractive due to her more detailed face, but they are both still very conical in shape like actual volcanoes, the female one having no hourglass shape or HartmanHips to speak of. Even then, this is still a [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] example, as the characters are based on and voiced by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole and his wife, the plot of the short is based on how they met, with Israel himself being a very portly man and his wife being of much slimmer figure.

* [[WesternAnimation/PixarShorts Lava]] is a {{Downplayed}} case. The male volcano is short, squat, and looks like an ordinary volcano that had eyes and a mouth carved into it's side, the female volcano is taller, slimmer, [[FurryFemaleMane has hardened lava running down her "spout" made to look like hair]], and is noticeably more attractive due to her more detailed face, but they are both still very conical in shape like actual volcanoes, the female one having no hourglass shape or HartmanHips to speak of. Even then, this is still a [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] example, as the characters are based on and voiced by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole and his wife, the plot of the short is based on how they met, with Israel himself being a very portly man and his wife being of much slimmer figure.

** [[LizardFolk The vesk]] avert this; women are slightly taller and tend to have more varied scale colors, and that's about it.

[[caption-width-right:192:It's either this or [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics we put a bow on her]] [[note]] [[TakeAThirdOption Or alternatively,]] we make her a [[PinkIsFeminine feminine]]-[[LadyInRed looking]] PaletteSwap of the males of her kind [[/note]].]]

[[caption-width-right:192:It's either this or [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics we put a bow on her]].]]

* ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}'': Parodied ([[AffectionateParody like everything else]]) in "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Dimorphism]]" by examining this trope from [[HumansThroughAlienEyes the monsters' perspective]]. A number of different fantasy species (including ''T. rex'', [[{{Treants}} Ents/Dryads]], and [[MushroomMan mushroom-people]]) have monstrous males that fit the species name, and females that look like curvaceous humanoid beauties in a SexyWhateverOutfit. They decide to wage war with humanity precisely because they're the only race that ''doesn't'' prescribe to this phenomenon (since both males and females share the same physiology, the men are described as "blobby chicks you wouldn't fuck").
-->Why do females of all species [[CuteMonsterGirl look the same]]? [[LampshadeHanging We don't know!]]

** Downplayed with Blood Elves. At first the males and females looked similar, but following player feedback the males were changed to be exactly the same sort of HeroicBuild as their Night Elf counterparts. In this case, however, both males and females are attractive by human standards.

* ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl:'' Played with as the series goes on, with some of the rare few extra-liminal species males appearing just as good-looking as their female counterparts. ''Definitely'' played straight where the centaurs are concerned, where the males are complete Gonks with brains to match while the centauresses are [[AmazonianBeauty considerably more appealing]].
** The short-lived browser game based on the series makes [[OurOrcsAreDifferent orc]] into a straight example too: while the males seen in the manga look like typical JRPG PigMan orcs, the orc woman in the game looks like a buxom, bodybuilding green-skinned [[GyaruGirl gyaru]].

** ''Manga/TwelveBeast'', by the same author, treats minotaurs the same way, with males being the typical [[ALoadOfBull bull-men]] while females are tall, muscular and buxom women with hooves, tails and horns... and whose standard casualwear seems to be cow-print bikinis.