History ViewerGenderConfusion / WebComics

* Kano from ''Kagerou'' was confusing readers in the beginning. We could tell his gender based on his colorful clothes, but as the comic went on, we were all sure he was a guy.

* During the infamous ScheduleSlip of ''Avalon'', a debate built up on the forums as to whom Ceilidh would end up with. The most popular answers were "no one" and "[[SchoolgirlLesbians Phoebe]]", with Joe (whom she had already dated) a close third. One forumite, however, found the latter two unlikely and the foremost cruel, so he put his chips down for the yearbook committee chair, Pasquale...not realizing "he" was every bit as female as Phoebe, with less [[MistakenForGay sexual ambiguity]]. (By the way, answer: [[spoiler:Phoebe]].)

*** More feminine? Tell that to [[LoveableRogue Julio Scoundrel!]]

* Similar to Digger -- Sweetheart from ''SkinHorse'', being a female, (mostly) non-anthropomorphized dog (one who's a genetically-altered, talking [[InformedAttribute killing machine]])

* ''Ghastly's Ghastly Comics'' has [[http://www.ghastlycomic.com/d/20060528.html this one-off]] ''Shota vs Loli'' comic, but since the people in the forums were debating who was Shota and who was Loli, Ghastly addressed their concerns [[http://www.ghastlycomic.com/d/20060611.html in the way he likes best.]]
* ''SomethingPositive'' provides an amusing [[http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp09052003.shtml in-story]] [[http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp09062003.shtml example]] (poor [[StraightGay Jhim]]).

* The AuthorAvatar from ''AwkwardZombie'' can be rather... ''confusing'' at first. Skinny and flat, wears a [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics baseball cap]], and, when representing characters with PurelyAestheticGender, is usually drawn in the male character's outfit. Long-haired, yes, but that's about it as far as visual femininity. Looking closely at the copyright signature on the sidebar, however, should clear things up--given that not many men are named "Katie." The author is just a GamerChick.

* ''TheAdventuresOfWiglafAndMordred'':

* First Folio from ''TerrorIsland'', who is explicitly told to be a girl only on the [[http://www.terrorisland.net/dramatis.html cast page]]. Especially since all the characters are played by genderless board game pieces. The only hint she's a girl is that [[http://www.terrorisland.net/strips/036.html Sid and Stephen propose feminine names for her]], but since they're both {{Cloudcuckoolander}}s, it's easy to miss.

* ''LastRes0rt'' gets this more than it should ( you really think all the boobs would help) -- folks repeatedly think Jigsaw and Veled are male, at least until they get a load of Jigsaw in [[http://www.lastres0rt.com/2009/09/work-play-and-die-where-you-live/ that dress]]. WordOfGod blames it on a "feminist" art style that doesn't go straight for the high heels, {{Stripperific}} outfits and GagBoobs like most comic books do. (She is, however, starting to give the girls some serious eyelashes to help make up for it.)

* The cat from LivingWithInsanity is female, but it's hard to tell since Salvi draws it in a mangy style, to the point where when it was revealed she loved a tom before the strip began, a few fans thought she was gay until WordOfGod cleared it up.

** Terezi Pyrope, full stop. Newbies to the comic have confused Terezi for a guy, partially due to the fact that her normal sprite doesn't really look all that feminine.
* ''ThePropertyOfHate'' took a WordOfGod to confirm that the protagonist was indeed a girl.
* ''ToddAllisonAndThePetuniaViolet's'' author [[WordOfGod Nozmo]] has had to state countless of times that [[LongHairedPrettyBoy Mere]][[GenderBlenderName dith]] indeed ''is'' male.

* ''ScandinaviaAndTheWorld'':
** [[http://satwcomic.com/confusion In universe example]] with Sister Denmark.
** In some strips, the readers have also initially mistaken her for her brother. Also, people aren't entirely clear on Ireland.
** Also Sister Denmark's nephew Christiania was thought to be a girl by a lot of people, [[http://satwcomic.com/child-s-play it's even discussed in this strip.]]

* [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_428.php Abel]] and [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Ab_061.php Mink]] from ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures''.\\
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Both male, for the record... at least we think Mink is male, since he doesn't wear a shirt and is flat-chested. Amber's drawing style tends to make male characters look a bit feminine, and it doesn't help that both Abel and Mink habitually wear skirts. Mink's effeminacy may be deliberate, however, since he is ''laden'' with feminine TertiarySexualCharacteristics (long hair, pink and purple colour scheme, long eyelashes, jewelry, skirt).\\\
Mink's Color Scheme is stated to be a clan Qurik. All members of his clan are pastel colored in their natural forms regardless of gender. Cubi are also shapeshifters which complicates guessing. Mink also has rather girly mannerisms. Look at him playing with his head tentacles in [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Ab_093.php this comic]], for instance. Also, nobody in the comic has used a third-person pronoun to refer to Mink.\\
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Mink doesn't even know what gender they are -- [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_1240.php Link]]

* [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_428.php Abel]] and [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Ab_061.php Mink]] from ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures''. Both male, for the record... at least we think Mink is male, since he doesn't wear a shirt and is flat-chested. Amber's drawing style tends to make male characters look a bit feminine, and it doesn't help that both Abel and Mink habitually wear skirts. Mink's effeminacy may be deliberate, however, since he is ''laden'' with feminine TertiarySexualCharacteristics (long hair, pink and purple colour scheme, long eyelashes, jewelry, skirt).\\\
Mink's Color Scheme is stated to be a clan Qurik. All members of his clan are pastel colored in their natural forms regardless of gender. Cubi are also shapeshifters which complicates guessing. Mink also has rather girly mannerisms. Look at him playing with his head tentacles in [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Ab_093.php this comic]], for instance. Also, nobody in the comic has used a third-person pronoun to refer to Mink. Mink doesn't even know what gender they are -- [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_1240.php Link]]

* [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_428.php Abel]] and [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Ab_061.php Mink]] from ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures''.\\
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Both male, for the record... at least we think Mink is male, since he doesn't wear a shirt and is flat-chested. Amber's drawing style tends to make male characters look a bit feminine, and it doesn't help that both Abel and Mink habitually wear skirts. Mink's effeminacy may be deliberate, however, since he is ''laden'' with feminine TertiarySexualCharacteristics (long hair, pink and purple colour scheme, long eyelashes, jewelry, skirt).\\\
Mink's Color Scheme is stated to be a clan Qurik. All members of his clan are pastel colored in their natural forms regardless of gender. Cubi are also shapeshifters which complicates guessing. Mink also has rather girly mannerisms. Look at him playing with his head tentacles in [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Ab_093.php this comic]], for instance. Also, nobody in the comic has used a third-person pronoun to refer to Mink.\\
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Mink doesn't even know what gender they are -- [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_1240.php Link]]

* [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_428.php Abel]] and [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Ab_061.php Mink]] from ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures''. Both male, for the record... at least we think Mink is male, since he doesn't wear a shirt and is flat-chested. Amber's drawing style tends to make male characters look a bit feminine, and it doesn't help that both Abel and Mink habitually wear skirts. Mink's effeminacy may be deliberate, however, since he is ''laden'' with feminine TertiarySexualCharacteristics (long hair, pink and purple colour scheme, long eyelashes, jewelry, skirt).\\\
Mink's Color Scheme is stated to be a clan Qurik. All members of his clan are pastel colored in their natural forms regardless of gender. Cubi are also shapeshifters which complicates guessing. Mink also has rather girly mannerisms. Look at him playing with his head tentacles in [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Ab_093.php this comic]], for instance. Also, nobody in the comic has used a third-person pronoun to refer to Mink. Mink doesn't even know what gender they are -- [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_1240.php Link]]

* Tristan from ''AngelMoxie'', due to her TomboyishName and pretty [[http://www.venisproductions.com/angelmoxie/archives/0/1/013.html masculine hair cut]]. This might be why Dan Hess decided give her [[http://www.venisproductions.com/angelmoxie/archives/2/7/275.html feminine makeup and longer hair]] later on.

* [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_428.php Abel]] and [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Ab_061.php Mink]] from ''{{DMFA}}''.
** Both male, for the record... at least we think Mink is male, since he doesn't wear a shirt and is flat-chested. Amber's drawing style tends to make male characters look a bit feminine, and it doesn't help that both Abel and Mink habitually wear skirts. Mink's effeminacy may be deliberate, however, since he is ''laden'' with feminine TertiarySexualCharacteristics (long hair, pink and purple colour scheme, long eyelashes, jewelry, skirt).
** Mink's Color Scheme is stated to be a clan Qurik. All members of his clan are pastel colored in their natural forms regardless of gender. Cubi are also shapeshifters which complicates guessing.
** Mink also has rather girly mannerisms. Look at him playing with his head tentacles in [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Ab_093.php this comic]], for instance. Also, nobody in the comic has used a third-person pronoun to refer to Mink.
** Mink doesn't even know what gender they are - [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_1240.php Link]]

* Most of the animals in UrsulaVernon's ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}'', including the main character, have no TertiarySexualCharacteristics the way most {{furry| fandom}} characters would. This, combined with absolutely no one bar the hyenas having gender issues, leads a lot of first-time readers to assume Digger is male until someone lets slip a third person pronoun.

** To the Peregrine Mendicant at first. She's was intended to be a guy at the start, but then a few people wondered if she was actually girl. Hussie saw the theories and basically went "Well sure, why not?" and officially made PM a girl. Most new readers still assume she's male until they get to the part where she's referred to as a "Miss".

** To the Peregrine Mendicant at first. She's a girl, but many fans didn't know it at first.
** actually Hussie has apparently stated that PM is a girl because readers decided PM was a girl.
** Also to Kanaya Maryam (grimAuxiliatrix), as nobody saw what she looked like at first, we only had her text to go by.

-->'''Manish woman:''' Uh, I know men like to look at breasts and all, but could you stop staring? Mine aren't even that big.\\

* ''ThePropertyOfHate'' took a WordOfGod to confirm that the protagonist was indeed a girl.

* ''{{Housepets}}'' invoked this intentionally with Grape, setting up for an early gender reveal. The confusion of the readers was shared by Peanut and Max.

* The main character from ''[[http://chaoslife.findchaos.com/ Chaos Life]]'' is actually a woman, which was revealed in the FAQ section, and it surprised a lot of viewers.

* When Aylee first appeared in ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', she had no visible gender and was even referred to as "it" by other characters. Since her species reproduces [[Film/{{Alien}} face-hugger]] style, it seemed reasonable to assume they didn't have males and females. However, once she started working as Torg's secretary, everyone started referring to her as a "she" (though whether she was actually biologically female or just self-identified as such is unclear). Most of the forms she's taken have also had no discernible sex characteristics, creating the potential for this trope at many different points in the series. Her current form, however, closely resembles a human female, even down to the "naughty parts".

* Soli from ''Webcomic/TheMeek'' has caused at least [[http://www.meekcomic.com/2010/12/30/3-20/ one case of gender confusion in-universe]], and many more out-of. Unlike the characters, however, the readers should know Soli's gender after a quick trip to the cast page. [[DidNotDoTheResearch Readers asking whether Soli is a man or a woman has actually become something of a sorespot for the author]], eventually causing them to [[http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=477620281855&set=a.59800571855.82755.59174811855 put their foot down.]]

* The AuthorAvatar from ''AwkwardZombie'' can be rather... ''confusing'' at first. Skinny and [[{{Pettanko}} flat]], wears a [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics baseball cap]], and, when representing characters with PurelyAestheticGender, is usually drawn in the male character's outfit. Long-haired, yes, but that's about it as far as visual femininity. Looking closely at the copyright signature on the sidebar, however, should clear things up--given that not many men are named "Katie." The author is just a GamerChick.

* ''GirlGenius'':

* When Aylee first appeared in ''SluggyFreelance'', she had no visible gender and was even referred to as "it" by other characters. Since her species reproduces [[Film/{{Alien}} face-hugger]] style, it seemed reasonable to assume they didn't have males and females. However, once she started working as Torg's secretary, everyone started referring to her as a "she" (though whether she was actually biologically female or just self-identified as such is unclear). Most of the forms she's taken have also had no discernible sex characteristics, creating the potential for this trope at many different points in the series. Her current form, however, closely resembles a human female, even down to the "naughty parts".

* ''Webcomic/OrderOfTheStick'':

* Happened in {{Homestuck}} to the Peregrine Mendicant at first. She's a girl, but many fans didn't know it at first.

* Happened in [[''Webcomic/Homestuck'']] to the Peregrine Mendicant at first. She's a girl, but many fans didn't know it at first.

* In the introductory comic of ''ElGoonishShive'', Elliot states that yes, Tedd is a guy. People were left guessing at Noah for a while.

* Happened in ''Webcomic/Homestuck'' to the Peregrine Mendicant at first. She's a girl, but many fans didn't know it at first.