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| 12 | [[caption-width-right:240:The best of both worlds ([[IntersexTribulations hopefully]]).]] |
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| 14 | For most fictional purposes, a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermaphrodite hermaphrodite]] is an individual that's both male and female; specifically, one that has both male and female genitals. Biologists don't use the word that way, but this is fiction, not biology. In real life, however, a human that has fully developed male and female genitals is unknown (there's never been an actual confirmed instance). Humans with sexually ambiguous genitals and/or incompletely developed ones (or other biological ambiguities between male and female, such as mixed glands, hormonal balances, or chromosomal sexes) are called intersex or hermaphrodites (chiefly in older literature; now considered a slur in the intersex community). |
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| 16 | Intersex people usually identify as either a man or woman (although some are non-binary), and being intersex does not automatically make them both "a man and a woman". In fact, genetically speaking, they would still be considered one or the other depending on the presence of a Y-chromosome, even if their phenotype is in between. Fictional depictions of intersex people are often inaccurate and full of UnfortunateImplications. |
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| 18 | The word Hermaphrodite comes from the Greek deity Hermaphroditus. This child of Hermes and Aphrodite was born a hermaphrodite, according to Diodorus Siculus ([[OlderThanFeudalism 1st century BCE]]). According to Ovid, he was a very handsome young man with whom the nymph Salmacis fell madly in love. He rejected her advances, but Salmacis clung to him and prayed fervently to never be parted from him. The gods [[LiteralGenie granted her prayer]] by [[FusionDance merging the two of them into a single being]], half-male and half-female. BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor. |
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| 20 | Hermaphrodites tend to pop up in {{hentai}} {{anime}} and {{manga}} (where it's called ''futanari'', literally "dual form" -- ''futa'', as anime fans call it for short, is a very well-known fetish), western erotic comics, and ScienceFiction and {{fantasy}} erotica (almost AlwaysFemale in appearance save for the obvious extra appendage). Sometimes entire alien species or fantasy races are hermaphroditic {{One Gender Race}}s, thanks to BizarreAlienSexes. Hermaphroditism is also a popular way to explain MisterSeahorse situations. |
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| 22 | See also {{Fetish}}, GenderBender, WrongGeneticSex, NoBiologicalSex, OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous, and IntersexTribulations. If said character is highly sought after, see EverybodyWantsTheHermaphrodite. |
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| 24 | For characters that can actually change their sex (better fitting the biological term that [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant shares this trope's name]]), see SexShifter. |
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| 27 | !!Examples: |
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| 29 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 31 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 32 | * The [[spoiler:protagonist Mashiro Ichijo]] of ''Manga/AfterSchoolNightmare'' possesses a body with the upper half being male and the lower half being female. [[spoiler:Ultimately a subversion, as the setting turns out to be some kind of metaphorical realm and "Mashiro" is not actually an individual but a pair of unborn male/female fraternal twins together in their mother's womb.]] |
| 33 | * [[BigGood Adam Kadmon]] from ''Manga/AngelSanctuary'' represents Primordial Man, being God's first creation who existed before "duality" of gender and power emerged. [[spoiler:[[MindScrew Apparently]], replicating a more obedient version was part of [[GodIsEvil YHWH]]'s master plan; several angels and demons are His failed experiments in doing so.]] |
| 34 | * In ''Manga/AstraLostInSpace'', [[spoiler:Luca Esposito]] is eventually revealed to be intersex, specifically a true hermaphrodite genetically engineered to have "perfect androgyny". He identifies and presents as male, but has breasts and both male and female working reproductive organs. |
| 35 | * Makoto, the main character of ''Manga/BokuNoFutatsuNoTsubasa'', is a fully functional hermaphrodite [[spoiler:thanks to her [[HalfHumanHybrid alien heritage]]]]. While she generally identifies herself as a girl, in part due to her boobs, she decides she likes sex with women using her male genitalia better. |
| 36 | * The three-chapter {{ecchi}} manga ''Boy meets Girl, Girl meets Boy'' (a.k.a. ''Boy Girl'') by Amazume Ryuta (of ''Manga/NanaAndKaoru'' fame) is about a teenage boy and girl who are gradually transforming into the opposite sex. It was published in ''Change H'', an anthology of similar GenderBender stories. |
| 37 | * Also by Amazume Ryuta, ''Bra Girl''[[note]]This is actually a mistranslation due to the Japanese homophone ''bura''; a better translation would be "Swing Girl".[[/note]] is about a girl who had grown a penis (but explicitly no testicles) during the process of puberty, as part of an in-universe phenomenon that gave rise to the "third sex/gender". This example, however, is just an {{ecchi}} romantic comedy instead of outright {{hentai}}; at no point do we actually see her naked genitals, with the most that we get being the bulge of her morning erection through her pajama pants, and... uh, how it "looks" while she's wearing "third sex-compatible" panties. |
| 38 | * {{Satan}} is portrayed this way in ''Franchise/{{Devilman}}'' due to Satan [[OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous being an angel]], who are often considered sexless. [[spoiler:Lan Asuka]] of ''Manga/DevilmanLady'' gets the same treatment. However, Satan is mostly referred to as a "he" rather than a "they" because [[spoiler:his human disguise, Ryo Asuka, is male, which implies that Satan identifies himself as a male rather than a female]]. |
| 39 | * WordOfGod confirmed that the Namekian race (including Piccolo) in ''Franchise/DragonBall'' are [[OneGenderRace hermaphrodites with a male-ish physique]]. They are actually based, by the way, not on human hermaphrodites but gastropods. Their name is probably taken from ''[[https://dragonball.fandom.com/wiki/Namekian namekuji]]'' (slug) which heavily explains not only their antennas but their reproduction from eggs. We never actually see their reproduction, but if it's [[https://hooktube.com/watch?v=UOcLaI44TXA anything like this]]... |
| 40 | * ''Manga/FutabaKunChange'': The Shimeru clan, from which the titular protagonist comes, are all {{Sex Shifter}}s who may change gender at will, when excited or from certain substances. [[spoiler:They are HumanAliens stranded on Earth millennia ago. Nobody knows they can crossbreed with regular Earthlings and hybrids may be able to change gender too.]] Even the word "shemale" is actually derived from the name of the clan. |
| 41 | * ''Manga/InterspeciesReviewers'': |
| 42 | ** Crimvael is an [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angel]] with both sets of genitalia, though he identifies as "male" for convenience (and in part because he doesn't want his [[LovableSexManiac friends]] to get any weird ideas if they learn about his female parts). At a GenderBender themed brothel, he drinks a GenderBender potion, and while his male friends all turn into women, he just loses his penis until the potion wears off. Later in the manga, other angels appear, and it seems they are all hermaphrodites. |
| 43 | ** Episode 3 reveals that hyena girls, like real-world hyenas, have pseudo-phalluses as well as vulvas. |
| 44 | * ''Manga/KnightsOfSidonia'' features Shinatose Izana, a "Third Gendered" human created through bioengineering. This Third Gender is sometimes called "intersex" or "middlesex" due to possessing both male and female characteristics, but it isn't a true hermaphrodite. Instead, when one of these Third Genders falls in love or otherwise subconsciously decides on a mate, their body changes into the sex opposite that of their intended, which is implied to be permanent. No word on what happens if two Third Genders fall in love with each other. |
| 45 | * [[spoiler:Kira]] from ''Manga/{{Marginal}}'' can switch between being male and female due to being the outcome of a really messed up experiment by their father. |
| 46 | * Baron Ashura from ''Anime/MazingerZ'' is a strange being formed from the halves of two lovers, [[TwoFaced sewn together down the middle]]. What his/her genitals look like is a mystery, though, and that's probably for the best. |
| 47 | * [[spoiler:Apos, the BigBad]] of ''Anime/{{Mnemosyne}}'', is intersex (self-identifies as male), which is very handy as it gives him immortality ([[GenderRestrictedAbility a female-only ability]]) as well as the powers of an Angel (male only ability) upon ingesting a Time Spore, though it does come with [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity Great Insanity]] and an unnatural pleasure from prolonged torture of his victims. |
| 48 | * ''Manga/MonsterMusume'' has Licchii, a member of a leech-based [[HumanSubspecies extraspecies]]. Like real leeches, Licchii has fully functional sexual organs for both sexes. |
| 49 | * Kanzeon Bosatsu from ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}}'', [[MythologyGag a reference]] to the fact that Guan Yin from the manga's inspiration ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'' was originally portrayed as male, but eventually became portrayed as female in China. |
| 50 | * Berg Katse from ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman''. Katse's even more messed up; born after Sosai X fused fraternal twins into one being, Katze switches between male and female forms. |
| 51 | * In the third series of ''Anime/TenchiMuyoRyoOhki'', it is revealed that one character started out female but assimilated with a prototype male body to become intersex, but eventually ejected the female part into the separate form of a little girl. |
| 52 | * In ''Manga/ViolenceJack'', Blue Mad Saulus' lover appears to be female on the outside but has a man's voice and a huge penis. |
| 53 | * Nataku from ''Manga/{{X 1999}}'', who is said to be a "created being" with both female and male genes. Even though he looks more like a guy now (because his father gave him some body parts), his base is a little girl. |
| 54 | * Yubel, the {{Yandere}} villain of season 3 of ''Anime/YuGiOhGX''. They are never referred to with either male or female pronouns [[spoiler:even in their past life]], and while they speak in a feminine voice slightly more often, they refer to themself using male pronouns ("boku", to be specific). It's not even clear [[AmbiguousGenderIdentity what they themself identify as]]. The Creator/FourKidsEntertainment dub, however, makes Yubel completely female. In contrast, the [[https://78.media.tumblr.com/8d2ba99e07d4f73e1f8938848f34c690/tumblr_inline_mwzke1JCYX1r9pg5v.png character designs]] imply that [[spoiler:Yubel's past life incarnation was male]]. |
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| 57 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 58 | * ''ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark'': Cerebus, while considered male in the overall story, is a hermaphrodite, and would have been able to impregnate himself had his uterus not been irreparably damaged by being stabbed in the belly as a youth. |
| 59 | * Negative Man or Rebis of Creator/GrantMorrison's ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'' run is a fusion of Larry Trainor (white male test pilot, original magic-word-transformation superhero Negative Man), Eleanor Poole, (black female, his doctor) and the Spirit Mercurius, an {{Energy Being|s}} that [[SicklyGreenGlow glows green]], [[ViewersAreGeniuses heavily referencing Carl Jung]], [[MindScrew on the moon]]. |
| 60 | * In ''ComicBook/{{Druuna}}: Clone'', Druuna encounters a bio-robot who is trying to understand human nature through experiments in pain and pleasure. It's somehow able to change into both female and male forms to pleasure Druuna. |
| 61 | * Steinbeck of ''ComicBook/{{Mystique}}'' being one of these is a case of {{Fanon}}, as [[spoiler:Prudence, able to [[PuppeteerParasite possess]] any woman, turned out to have possessed him at the moment he "killed" her, and she, not him, was the BigBad of the Quiet Man arc. However, there have also been numerous cases of mutants exceeding the known limits of their powers in extreme situations -- Jean's transformation into Phoenix being such a case before retcons - and Prudence-as-Steinbeck was ''entirely'' AxCrazy, so it's more likely that she can possess a man when it ''really'' counts, but doing so has consequences]]. |
| 62 | * In ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', Virginia Woolf's male-to-female GenderBender character [[Literature/OrlandoABiography Orlando]] is intersex during his/her transition periods. |
| 63 | * Desire, one of the Endless from ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'', is a hermaphrodite in the sense that Desire is androgynous (in appearance and otherwise) and can be either sex, depending on what an individual who sees Desire "desires" at a given moment. An example of this is a survivor of an explosion in a strip joint seeing it as an angel. Desire is always referred to as a concept, an "it" in narration, rather than talking about it as a person like the other Endless. The other Endless usually refer to Desire as their "Brother-Sister" and avoid the whole pronoun mess. |
| 64 | * Shaalis, the main character of Michael Manning's ''Spider Garden'' erotic graphic novel series, is a true hermaphrodite, and is more commonly referred to by the titles of "Sacred Androgyne", and "mastress". Although the series revolves around a far-future clan-based society of genetically modified "metahumans", ''s/he'' seems to be the only true hermaphrodite. |
| 65 | * ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth'': Aphrodite's child Atlantiades, the {{Trope Namer|s}} also known as Hermaphroditus, makes their first appearance in Franchise/TheDCU and is physically both sexes just like in Myth/ClassicalMythology. |
| 66 | * In Creator/PhilFoglio's ''[=XXXenophile=]'' story "Rule of Three", [[{{Polyamory}} a human couple end up welcoming an alien named Snixor into their bed]]. Snixor's race are true hermaphrodites: |
| 67 | -->''"My race doesn't have separate sexes. Each of us can be 'male' or 'female' as required. It usually depends on who buys dinner."'' |
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| 70 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 71 | [[AC:Examples by source:]] |
| 72 | * Structurally hermaphroditic biology is common for trolls in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' fanfic, though that has some canonical basis with the given knowledge of their BizarreAlienBiology; both male and female trolls deposit their "genetic material" into buckets for shipment to the egg-laying Mother Grub, and gender has no bearing on which pairs can reproduce together. |
| 73 | * There are many ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfics that turn characters into this to get around the fact that the mane cast is six/sevenths female. For whatever reasons, [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak Rainbow Dash]], [[ShrinkingViolet Fluttershy]], and [[GodEmperor Princess Celestia]] seem to be given male organs most often. Queen Chrysalis often gets a wing-dang-doodle as well, though it only debatably counts as it's typically used for giving her "mate" a FaceFullOfAlienWingWong. |
| 74 | * Some ''Manga/SoulEater'' fanfictions use this as a method of explaining [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Crona]]'s AmbiguousGender. It may or may not be used for {{Fetish}} too, depending on [[RuleThirtyFour what kind of fanfiction you're reading]]. |
| 75 | * In ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' fanfiction, yukkuris are biologically hermaphroditic, their only restriction being that two yukkuris of the same type can't have a baby together (unless they're Rinnosuke-types). However, they are always referred to by the same pronouns as the characters they're based on --[[ImprobablyFemaleCast which 99% of the time would be "her"]]. |
| 76 | * In NotSafeForWork ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' fanfiction, Cybertronians are usually portrayed as having both types of genitalia, although mechs are portrayed this way more often than femmes. |
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| 79 | * ''Webcomic/AndShineHeavenNow'': As eventually revealed, [[spoiler:Heinkel]] is this trope. One of the reasons ze joined Iscariot [[spoiler:(namely the regenerator program)]] is in hopes that it would 'fix' hir and put hir into a 'normal' body. |
| 80 | * In the NotSafeForWork fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12811012/1/The-Futanari-of-Yuragi-Inn The Futanari of Yuragi Inn]]'', Kari, the OriginalCharacter who replaces Kogarashi as the main character of ''Manga/YuunaAndTheHauntedHotSprings'', is a lesbian with both types of genitalia. |
| 81 | * In the ''Series/{{Victorious}}'' fanfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8579536/1/Glorious Glorious]]'', supporting the Cade and Jori pairings, Tori wakes to find that Cat is one. But it's not just Cat... |
| 82 | * Variant in ''Fanfic/{{Hivefled}}''; both "males" and "females" have a tentacular penis and a vagina, but only in the females does said vagina lead up to a womb-analogous pouch for storing genetic material, and only females have NonMammalMammaries. It's also considered taboo for females to favour using their penis or males their vagina over the opposing parts, and most trolls don't find this a problem as they find it various levels of uncomfortable to do so. |
| 83 | * ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7259965/1/Hopeless-Love Hopeless Love]]'' explains [[Anime/YuGiOh Yugi]]'s slightly effeminate appearance by making him a hermaphrodite. |
| 84 | * In ''Fanfic/KataangIslandAdventure'', Aang and Katara encounter one of these named Aratak... who looks like Katara except for some other details. She turns out to be the leader of an [[NobleSavage island tribe]] who don't worry about appearances. |
| 85 | * ''Fanfic/LeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemenTempestRewrite'': After being transformed into Futura, Orlando can now change gender at will, as well as take an intersex form. |
| 86 | * ''Fanfic/LostInCamelot'': Hinted at when Kenzi wonders if the troll who married Uther in the guise of Lady Catrina is a female troll or a male one. |
| 87 | * In the ''My Woman'' {{doujinshi}} series by [[https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/1421537 Egoneri]] (of ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency''), Caesar is a futanari. She has boobs and a vagina and identifies herself as female, but also has a fully functional dick, which she uses to peg Joseph. And in book 3 of the series, a mysterious artifact cause Joseph and Caesar to swap sexes, turning Joseph into a futanari as well, but he still identifies as male in his case. |
| 88 | %%* There's this ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fanfic, ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1913307/1/Resuscitation_of_Agape Resuscitation of Agape]]'', in which... well, you'll just have to read it. |
| 89 | * ''Fanfic/TheReturn'': [[OneGenderRace Succubae]] reproduce two ways. One is [[ViralTransformation turning]] that results in a succubus regardless of what gender they were as a human. The other is one succubus impregnating another. [[ExoticEquipment Tails]] are implied to be involved. |
| 90 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11486857/1/Rose-Lily-Potter-Metamorphmagus-Who-Lived Rose Lily Potter -- Metamorphmagus Who Lived]]'': Metamorphmagi are considered a third sex due to their ability to develop fully functional male or female reproductive organs. |
| 91 | %%* The ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' fanfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7792173/1/ Smoke and Mirrors]]'' has most of the Yun clan. |
| 92 | * ''Fanfic/CodexEquus'': Ancalagon is a sequential hermaphrodite, capable of changing his physical sex in response to environmental conditions. This is how the protodragon race got started -- since he and Glaurung were both male, Ancalagon became female and they bred to produce the rest of the species. |
| 93 | [[/folder]] |
| 94 | |
| 95 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 96 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': |
| 97 | ** In the movie ''[[Recap/FuturamaM2TheBeastWithABillionBacks The Beast with a Billion Backs]]'', the creature from another universe Yeevo is said to be neither male nor female, and rather than using "he" or "her", they are referred to by the terms "shkle" or "shkler". |
| 98 | ** In ''[[Recap/FuturamaM3BendersGame Bender's Game]]'', Hermes Conrad's double in the fantasy world generated by Bender's imagination is a centaur with breasts named "Hermaphrodite". |
| 99 | [[/folder]] |
| 100 | |
| 101 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 102 | * The Xenomorphs from the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' films. [[WordOfGod According to]] Creator/HRGiger, the guy who pretty much created the aliens, they're neither male nor female but rather a horrific blurring of both sexes. Yes, this even includes [[HiveQueen the Queen]]. ([[Mst3kMantra Try not to think about it too hard]]. These ''are'' [[BizarreAlienBiology aliens, after all]].) Giger's new ''Xenorotica Portfolio'' is essentially RuleThirtyFour based around them, much to the joy of {{Nightmare Fetishist}}s everywhere. |
| 103 | * ''Film/BigTopPeeWee'' features a hermaphrodite in the circus' side show named Shim who has a male left half and female right half (or possibly the other way around). Said, by the circus announcer, to be the only person who can marry "shimself". |
| 104 | * [[AllThereInTheManual Tie-in material]] for ''Film/District9'' on Christopher's blog states that [[InsectoidAliens the prawns]] are all fully functional hermaphrodites. |
| 105 | %%* The Gyaos in the Heisei ''Film/{{Gamera}}'' trilogy. |
| 106 | * Bernard Phillips from ''Film/GodToldMeTo'' was born looking like his genitals hadn't developed yet. His mother referred to him by male pronouns, and the doctor followed suit. [[spoiler:He does have fully functioning alien genitals, which are on his side.]] |
| 107 | * Hedorah from the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' films is simply referred to as an "it". [[SubvertedTrope However]], [[AllThereInTheManual the mobile game]] ''Godzilla Defense Force'' states that Hedorah does in fact have separate sexes (the 1971 one is female, the 2004 one is male). |
| 108 | * The dinosaurs in ''Film/JurassicPark1993'' are sequential hermaphrodites as a result of [[LegoGenetics frog DNA being used to fill the gaps in their own deteriorated helixes]]. All the dinosaurs were engineered female, which obviously was just the sort of population imbalance needed for some of them to turn male and start breeding. This is possible because neither amphibians nor reptiles have sex-specific chromosomes. |
| 109 | * Referenced in ''Film/TheLairOfTheWhiteWorm'' when the characters discover some cave art depicting a figure with large breasts and an erect penis. [[spoiler:Subverted, as it turns out to be a sketch of the film's immortal villain, a lesbian snake-woman who likes to perform HumanSacrifice with [[OutWithABang a sharpened ritual strap-on]].]] |
| 110 | * In ''Film/NeverTooYoungToDie'', Gene Simmons of Music/{{KISS}} fame plays one dressed in a dominatrix outfit. He also has a scene where he sings a song titled "It Takes a Man Like Me to Love a Woman Like Me". |
| 111 | * In ''Film/{{Predestination}}'', Jane is revealed to be one. She had internal male genitalia discovered during a cesarean section, and complications forced the doctors to supersede her external female genitalia with them. This forces Jane to become a man for the remainder of her life. |
| 112 | * In ''Film/TheSexLifeOfThePolyp'', the lecturer has to tell his audience that polyps can be either male or female at will. He is clearly very uncomfortable saying this. |
| 113 | * In ''Film/Tremors2Aftershocks'', the resident scientist sees the Screamer stage reproducing and says they're "hermaphrodites", but they're actually just the opposite in that they have ''no'' genitals and reproduce asexually by vomiting up a new one after gorging. She says ''immediately'' afterwards that "They reproduce asexually", so whether it's a case of the writers not knowing the difference or just her (being a geologist, not a biologist) is never brought up... unlike the phrase "pre-Cambrian". |
| 114 | [[/folder]] |
| 115 | |
| 116 | [[folder:Jokes]] |
| 117 | * A classic TakeThat against your "favorite" female sports heroine is told this way: |
| 118 | -->Mrs. Insert Name Here, what do you say to the rumors that you take steroids?\ |
| 119 | Suck my dick! |
| 120 | :: Has been [[TruthInTelevision true]] to a ''certain'' degree way back in the starter days of doping... but surely not to ''that'' degree. |
| 121 | * A member of the East German women's athletics team goes to the team doctor: |
| 122 | --> Doctor, about those pills you've been giving...\ |
| 123 | Yes? Have you noticed any side effects?\ |
| 124 | Yes, two. I've been growing hair on places I've never had before.\ |
| 125 | Okay, "unusual hair growth"... Where?\ |
| 126 | On my balls, which is the other effect I wanted to talk about. |
| 127 | [[/folder]] |
| 128 | |
| 129 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 130 | * The central character of ''Literature/AllYouZombies'' had internal male genitalia discovered during a cesarean section, and complications forced the doctors to supersede her external female genitalia with them. Both sets of genitalia were fully functional; in fact, [[spoiler:s/he's not only the mother, but the father and ''daughter'' as well, via StableTimeLoop orchestrated by the protagonist much later in life, making four distinct characters the same person]]. |
| 131 | * [[spoiler:Roselle Pollard]] in ''Literature/TheBadPlace'' is fully reproductively functional as both sexes, [[spoiler:and by [[TrulySingleParent self-impregnation]] gives birth to a protagonist and the villain, plus two other children]]. |
| 132 | * James Reese's trilogy consisting of ''The Book of Shadows'', ''The Book of Spirits'', and ''The Witchery'' feature Herculine, a hermaphrodite with functional dual genitals. She/he is an unusual member of a MageSpecies that normally gives birth to female witches and male humans. She/he has the powers of a witch, but [[spoiler:is able to impregnate a human woman and father a witch daughter and a human son]]. |
| 133 | * In F. M. Busby's ''The Breeds of Man'', genetic scientists searching for a cure for an infertility plague caused by an AIDS cure GoneHorriblyWrong inadvertently create "serial" hermaphrodites that alternate between male and female on a monthly cycle linked to menstruation: Three weeks of one sex followed by three weeks of the other with a one-week transition period in between. Fortunately, the menstrual trigger means any cohabiting couple will alternate sexes once their menstrual cycles synchronize. Unfortunately, they don't find out about it until the first test subjects hit puberty and the resulting collisions of sex and gender roles (to say nothing of the pronoun problems) pretty much knocks society for a loop. It does provide for some amusing subversions of traditional plot devices, like the revelation that the two formerly male schoolyard bullies had married each other and had BabiesEverAfter in the DistantFinale. |
| 134 | * The [[WingedHumanoid Aeyries]] in Laurie J. Marks's ''Children of Triad'' trilogy. They're also [[WhaleEgg oviparous]]. |
| 135 | * The eponymous character of Thomas T. Thomas' novel ''Crygender'' (it stands for 'cryptic gender") is a former terrorist who elects to become a (surgically created) hermaphrodite in order to "hide in plain sight". |
| 136 | * ''Literature/ADanceWithDragons'' introduces "Sweets", the purple-haired violet-eyed intersex prized slave of Yunkish slaver Yezzan zo Qaggaz, who owns a grotesquerie of unique and deformed slaves. Though Sweets' place of origin is unknown, the books do reference that people born in the cities close to the devastated Valyrian peninsula are often born with deformities and alterations. |
| 137 | * ''Literature/EightWorlds'': Kenneth "Sparky" Valentine from ''The Golden Globe'', is specifically ''not'' a hermaphrodite despite his trick [[MagicPlasticSurgery reversible penis]]. He's just an actor who likes to play both male and female roles in a frontier society where virtually every production (including Shakespeare) includes sex scenes. |
| 138 | * The sixteenth-century story ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/facetiousnights/night13_fable9.html Filomena the Hermaphrodite]]'', featured in ''The Facetious Nights of Straparola'', features a young woman named Filomena falling ill after she joins a convent. When she is analyzed by doctors, they discover that she has grown a penis and testicles. At the end of the story, Filomena is revealed to have started dressing like a man. |
| 139 | * The Titanides from the ''Literature/GaeaTrilogy'' are... complicated. Genetically engineered to resemble the [[OurCentaursAreDifferent centaurs]] of myth, they, shall we say, ''divert'' from that model by having ''both'' genitalia on their horsey halves ''and'' nonetheless sort themselves into males and females based on the ''third'' set of genitals at the base of the humanoid torso. They also universally sport breasts, regardless of which humanoid genitalia they possess, since all of them can bear (and thus must nurse) children. |
| 140 | * Ralf Isau's novel ''[[http://isau.de/shop/index.html Galerie der Lügen]]'' (translating to "Gallery of Lies") has a hermaphrodite [[spoiler:protagonist]] and [[spoiler:an ex-hermaphrodite WellIntentionedExtremist on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge]]. |
| 141 | * The main character of Creator/MaryGentle's AlternateHistory novel ''Ilario: The Lion's Eye'' is a [[MagicRealism realistically(?)]] portrayed hermaphrodite. [[spoiler:Ilario becomes pregnant at one point.]] |
| 142 | * Pie O'Pah in ''Literature/{{Imajica}}'' is whatever his current sexual partner is most attracted to. Another main character who falls in love with "him" learns to see his true form, which rather than having two sets of genitals has one unusually shaped organ that can somehow fulfill both jobs. |
| 143 | * The entire planet of Winter in ''Literature/TheLeftHandOfDarkness'' is populated by humans who are hermaphrodites and androgynes. Most of the time, people are genderless, unless they're in heat. Two lovers in heat will assume genders at random (though some people have preferences, male or female) and if one gets pregnant, she remains so until the baby is born, then goes back to being an androgyne. This is explored in great detail -- and made slightly complicated by the fact that the narrator translates pronouns as "He" most of the time (though a later book referred to all Getheniens as "she"). |
| 144 | %%* The Posleen from ''Literature/LegacyOfTheAldenata''. |
| 145 | * When the EvilutionaryBiologist villains of ''Literature/TheMoreauFactor'' [[ForcedTransformation transform]] their victims into {{Half Human Hybrid}}s, they also make many of them hermaphrodites, apparently [[PowerPerversionPotential just because they can]] -- or so the protagonist initially assumes. He later learns that creating a fertile species of any kind is pretty much a fluke when you're PlayingWithSyringes, and the scientists weren't deliberately aiming for hermaphrodites so much as they were trying to create something -- ''anything'' -- that could reproduce. |
| 146 | * Thorn from ''Literature/{{Raptor}}'' is a hermaphrodite born during the last years of the Roman Empire. Thorn is remarkably convincing as either gender, and switches between them as needed. Unlike some fictional examples, however, Thorn is sterile. |
| 147 | * Sadako from ''Literature/TheRing'' counts twice. [[spoiler:Her original body had [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androgen_insensitive Androgen insensitivity syndrome,]] an intersex condition that causes the woman affected to be born with a vagina, but with XY chromosomes, no uterus, and internal testes where the ovaries would typically be. After her rebirth in ''Spiral'', she describes herself as a "complete hermaphrodite" with both a womb and testicles, fully functional.]] |
| 148 | * Creator/MelissaScott's novel ''Shadow Man'' involves humanity becoming a five-sexed race as a side-effect of adaptation to FasterThanLightTravel. Of course, not everyone accepted it. |
| 149 | * ''Literature/StarShardsChronicles'': In ''Thief of Souls'', the eponymous soul-eater Okoya takes a hermaphrodite body. |
| 150 | * Burgoyne 172 in ''Literature/StarTrekNewFrontier'', a member of the fully hermaphroditic Hermat species. S/he ([[PronounTrouble bear with us here]]) mates with a Vulcan, of all species, and the baby they produce (well, the Vulcan produces) is male. Originally the considered pronoun was S/he/it. Say it out loud and you'll see why it didn't catch on. |
| 151 | * In ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'', Hutts are gastropods and therefore functional hermaphrodites (they can both impregnate others and themselves). A given Hutt is usually referred to as "female" when pregnant, otherwise it's a matter of personal preference whether they're called "he" or "she". Many other species also exist. Star Dragons/Duinuogwuin have [[OneGenderRace only one sex]] and take on gendered pronouns for the convenience of bigendered species. WordOfGod states that Hutts have single sexes in the new canon. |
| 152 | * In Creator/HBeamPiper's sci-fi novel ''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=2642275 Uller Uprising]]'', the Ullerans are a race of silicon-based, vaguely reptilian {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}s who happen to be hermaphroditic. The rather imperialistic Terran colonists have gotten used to every army unit needing to have a few troopers assigned to baby-sitting duty. |
| 153 | * In Creator/TheodoreSturgeon's ''Venus Plus X'', the Ledom, an "advanced" (what exactly that means is an important PlotPoint in the novel) type of humans, are all hermaphroditic, peace-loving, and empathetic. [[spoiler:Late in the novel, the protagonist (and the reader) finds out what's ''really'' going on.]] |
| 154 | * In the ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'', Miles Naismith Vorkosigan's close friend and able subordinate Bel Thorne is a Betan hermaphrodite, one of an entire subspecies of genetically engineered people created as an ultra-egalitarian social movement. In-universe, "it" is considered the appropriate pronoun. Bel usually presents itself as a dashing, macho, bishonen officer but will vary its gender presentation (once in the middle of a conversation) in order to attract the attention of a potential love interest or just to mess with people. Bel is one of very few hermaphrodites to ever leave their hermetic subculture on ultra-liberal Beta colony and hints its preference for bi-gendered society may be considered a bit "queer" back home. A number of other characters have made comments about Thorne having romantic feelings towards Miles. Due to its deliberate ambiguity of gender, [[SubordinateExcuse these feelings]] are often the subject of ridicule and [[FantasticRacism disdain]] among some. Miles, who is relatively open-minded despite his very traditional upbringing, sometimes has trouble working through the ambiguities himself. Conversely Bel appears to be perfectly happy with its third-gender status since Betan technology is sufficiently advanced to allow any character to change genders at will. |
| 155 | * In ''Literature/TheWardedMan'' and other stories in the ''Demon Cycle'' series, [[spoiler:Leesha and Jardir]]'s child is born with two complete sets of external genitalia. Leesha suspects this is result of overuse of magic while pregnant. After Amanvah foretells the child's future, they decide to raise her as a girl because it will keep the child safer. |
| 156 | * In the ''Literature/WellWorld'' series, the communistic states on some of the more hivelike planets have engineered humans to be full hermaphrodites to [[IndividualityIsIllegal make everyone "equal"]]. It doesn't work. The population of the Well World itself contains a variety of hermaphroditic species as well. |
| 157 | * In the ''Literature/{{Wraeththu}}'' series, 99.9% of the (many, many) characters are fully functional, half-and-half hermaphrodites. Also, [[AWizardDidIt magical]]. |
| 158 | [[/folder]] |
| 159 | |
| 160 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 161 | * Desiree Dupree from ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryFreakShow'' is this, as well as having [[{{Multiboobage}} three breasts]]. [[spoiler:Subverted: she finds out that the same hormonal imbalance that gave her three breasts also enlarged her clitoris to the extent that previous doctors mistook it for a penis.]] |
| 162 | * In one episode of ''Anna & Kristina's Grocery Bag'', Anna and Kristina can't figure out which part of their lobsters is the coral, which part is the roe and which are the "intestine-y bit(s) one should not eat", and Kristina asks if lobsters are hermaphroditic. As it turns out, they need female lobsters for their recipe, but the cookbook they're testing does not divulge that detail. |
| 163 | * ''Series/BabylonFive'': Londo uses a statue of a hermaphrodite centauri goddess to explain centuari biology to Lenier. She has [[ExoticEquipment six prehensile penises]], as centuari males do. Said statue is occasionally seen as a background decoration in Londo's quarters. |
| 164 | * In the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E18Earshot Earshot]]", Buffy is touched by a demon, then learns she will take on an aspect of said demon. She relays the fears of getting a tail or scales to Willow, whose eyes go wide at a sudden thought she's kind enough to share and add to Buffy's fears. |
| 165 | -->''"Was it a boy demon?"'' |
| 166 | * The [[NoNameGiven never-named]] Alpha Centaurian ambassador who plays a major role in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E2TheCurseOfPeladon The Curse of Peladon]]" and its sequel "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E4TheMonsterOfPeladon The Monster of Peladon]]" uses male pronouns, but is described as a hermaphrodite, [[UnfortunateCharacterDesign looks like a penis in a cloak]], was played by a male actor under the costume, and was voiced by a female actor trying to sound like a CampGay man. |
| 167 | * [[spoiler:Lauren]] from ''Series/FakingIt'', who has Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome. |
| 168 | * ''Series/{{Friends}}'': In high school, the "I Hate Rachel" club intentionally started a (false) rumor that Rachel had both male and female reproductive parts, and at birth her parents had flipped a coin and decided to raise her as a girl. Apparently, the rumor was so big that even Chandler's school knew about the "hermaphrodite cheerleader from Long Island". |
| 169 | * The PatientOfTheWeek in the ''Series/{{House}}'' episode "Skin Deep" turns out to be intersex. While House initially believes her to be a teenage girl, an ultrasound shows that she has testes where her ovaries should be, the result of a genetic abnormality, pseudohermaphroditism; she has XY chromosomes, but does not produce testosterone. (True hermaphrodites are chimaeras and have both XX and XY cells.) She has ''testicular cancer''. House shares this information in his [[DrJerk usual empathetic and caring style]], causing her to run after him, throw away her clothes, and tearfully insist that she's a girl. |
| 170 | * The Orkans from ''Series/MorkAndMindy'' may have shades of this, insinuated by Mork's appearance in ''Series/HappyDays'' when Fonzie asks if a certain Orkan is a man or woman. |
| 171 | -->''"Hard to tell. Parts are interchangeable there."'' |
| 172 | * ''Series/MrShow'': "I'm Tatyana, the Weather Hermaphrodite." |
| 173 | * ''Series/{{Passions}}'': In the last years of the show, the characters of Vincent Clarkson and Valerie Davis were revealed to be one and the same, an intersex individual with fully functional male and female organs, and who had an affair with his own biological father that resulted in his becoming pregnant. |
| 174 | * Gene/Jean from ''Series/{{Quark}}'' is a "transmute", meaning he has both male and female chromosomes. Whether he has both sex organs, however, is never revealed. |
| 175 | * Tribbles from the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E15TheTroubleWithTribbles The Trouble with Tribbles]]" have no gender, and each reproduces on its own after it eats enough. Unfortunately, this can make them {{Explosive Breeder}}s if their handlers aren't careful. |
| 176 | [[/folder]] |
| 177 | |
| 178 | [[folder:Music & Music Videos]] |
| 179 | * A "big, fat hermaphrodite with Music/AFlockOfSeagulls haircut and only one nostril" stole Music/WeirdAlYankovic's lucky, lucky autographed glow-in-the-dark snorkel in the (not really) autobiographical song "Albuquerque". |
| 180 | * Singing comedian Music/StephenLynch has the song "Hermaphrodite" (pronounced to be a pun with 'Aphrodite'), which is about him having a hermaphrodite "girlfriend". |
| 181 | -->She wears lace and she wears flannel, she watches Football ''and'' the Creator/{{Lifetime}} Channel! What's that bulge under her nighty? It must be Hermaphrodite! |
| 182 | * Singing comedian The Rev. Billy C. Wirtz has the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAiwS24wPTE "Honky Tonk Hermaprodite"]], about a "good ol' boy with the [=38D's=]. The song ends with him meeting a fellow hermaphrodite who's "[[Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies Jethro above the waist]], but below, she's Elly May." |
| 183 | * The Music/{{Genesis|Band}} song "The Fountain of Salmacis" from ''Music/NurseryCryme'' tells the Hermaphrodite story. |
| 184 | * In the music video for the Music/{{Rammstein}} song "Pussy", Flake Lorenz played a hermaphrodite. There's also their song "Zwitter", which translates to 'hermaphrodite'. |
| 185 | * In the Music/{{Avantasia}} song "The Raven Child", the protagonist sings the following lyrics |
| 186 | -->''Am I awake or is it an evil dream\ |
| 187 | Or maybe the ugly in between\ |
| 188 | Like me... a weak hermaphrodite'' |
| 189 | * "S-E-X-X-Y" by Music/TheyMightBeGiants is implied to be about this. |
| 190 | * In the Music/SheWantsRevenge music video "Tear You Apart", it's implied but not said for the girl to actually be intersex. It results in her being cornered and about to be stripped by a mob of high schoolers. Then the duo burst in and rescue her. Then it results in a {{Cliffhanger}} with them saying there much to talk about. |
| 191 | * ''Music/{{UTAU}}'': While resembling a female, Yokune Ruko is a hermaphrodite that is stated to be only 10% female. |
| 192 | [[/folder]] |
| 193 | |
| 194 | [[folder:Myths & Religion]] |
| 195 | * Many ancient cultures had gods (usually {{fertility god}}s, for obvious reasons) like this, such as the {{Trope Namer|s}} mentioned above. |
| 196 | * Hyenas were once believed to be hermaphrodites due to the fact that the genitalia of female hyenas bears a strong resemblance to male genitalia (a result of the high levels of testosterone female hyenas produce). |
| 197 | * ''Literature/TheBible'': Some mystical traditions believe this with respect to Adam. It's argued that the line in the ''Literature/BookOfGenesis'', "male and female He created them", should more accurately read, "male and female They [the "elohim", a collective of ancient Semitic gods] created him [Adam]", and that prior to being split in two to create Eve, Adam was a hermaphroditic, two-headed giant. |
| 198 | * In the [[Myth/MesopotamianMythology Babylonian version]] of ''Literature/InannasDescentToTheNetherworld'', the [[LivingMacGuffin asexual creatures]] used to rescue Inanna (Ishtar) from the underworld become replaced by a Hermaphrodite being that confuses Ereshkigal, who eventually lets her sister leave. |
| 199 | * In Myth/ScythianMythology, the Enarei, a class of priests led by Argimpasa, were described by Herodotus as males cursed with a "female" sickness that made them androgynous. Some have speculated this was nothing more than a fancy name for impotency. However, there's also some indication they were what now would be called UsefulNotes/{{transgender}} something similar, as they're described to cross-dress and act "like women" (in the Greeks' conception), with the commentators explicitly saying the Scythians had a fluid concept of gender. It's not impossible some were intersex as well of course. These individuals were also described among their laity. |
| 200 | [[/folder]] |
| 201 | |
| 202 | [[folder:Professional Wrestling]] |
| 203 | * Wrestling/DwayneJohnson would frequently call interviewer Kevin Kelly "an ugly hermaphrodite", or "Hermie" for short. Whenever Kelly made appearances as a manager on the independent circuit, fans would chant "Her-Mie!" at him. |
| 204 | [[/folder]] |
| 205 | |
| 206 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 207 | * In many editions of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', elvish deities such as Corellon Larethian variously manifest as male, female, both, or neither. |
| 208 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': |
| 209 | ** Marilaq A'Lam, Sister of Neomah, a Demon-Blooded turned more-or-less full demon, is an example of this. Fully functional at that; she's quite capable of impregnating herself. She does seem to maintain a female identity, despite her ''[[ExoticEquipment three sets of genitalia]]''. |
| 210 | ** Another, non-fully functional example is Livillia, the actual ''[[OddJobGods goddess of prostitution]]''. As befitting her nature, she's not nearly as {{Squick}}y as Marilaq -- she looks like a AmazonianBeauty since she's supposed to be an example of both male and female attractiveness. Doesn't stop her from wearing a penis sheath. |
| 211 | * ''TabletopGame/GURPSBioTech'' mentions that 'Genetic engineering would allow the reliable creation of functional hermaphrodites. A "utopian" society might try to give everyone this trait to ensure sexual equality (no sexual discrimination if everyone is both sexes)'. This trait is a 0-point feature. |
| 212 | * ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'' has a Legacy called the Daksha, whose members are all hermaphrodites (they don't start out like that, but are transformed by joining the Legacy). They have the ability to [[GenderBender shapeshift between a male, female, and hermaphroditic form]], though they tend to consider the latter their "true" form, regardless of their original gender. |
| 213 | * In ''TabletopGame/UnknownArmies'', one of the archetypes an avatar can follow (and described as one of the hardest to master) is that of the Mystic Hermaphrodite - a being that represents absolute paradox (which is the foundation on which magick is created in the game). When an avatar achieves greater levels of mastery over the archetype, he/she can change gender at will, but risks becoming a biological hermaphrodite if the roll is botched. |
| 214 | * Slaanesh, the youngest [[EldritchAbomination Chaos God]] in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' and ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', can be just as accurately referred to as "The Dark Prince" and "She Who Thirsts". Traditional lore portrays it as a rather unusual version of this trope; basically, cut a woman and a man, both exceptionally beautiful, in half vertically and then fuse the woman's right half to the man's left half to make a whole human being. That's what Slaanesh's "main" form looks like. Slaanesh's followers tend to end up rather distorted in terms of gender, but for male worshippers, having the right pectoral swell into a female breast is considered a high mark of favor, as it makes them more like Slaanesh itself. Of course, as a supremely powerful warp entity, Slaanesh can alter its form to appear male, female, hermaphroditic, or androgynous, but not matter how it appears, it is supremely seductive -- so that yes, you'd hit that, and you'd sell your soul for the chance to do so. |
| 215 | [[/folder]] |
| 216 | |
| 217 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 218 | * [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/bayonetta/images/b/b6/1419071586696.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/553?cb=20141222015613 Concept Art]] shows that The Prophet, [[spoiler:Loptr/Aesir]] from ''VideoGame/Bayonetta2'', at one point was considered to appear as half male and half female right down the middle, in addition to being half light and half dark, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen although this concept was scrapped]]. |
| 219 | * As it turns out in ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga'', [[spoiler:Angel]] is a fully functional hermaphrodite and [[TrulySingleParent both the mother and father]] of [[spoiler:Sera]]. At the end of the second game, [[spoiler:Serph]] and [[spoiler:Sera]] [[FusionDance merge]] into a single hermaphroditic being, [[spoiler:Seraph]], whose Atma Avatar form is [[spoiler:Ardha, who in Myth/HinduMythology was a fusion between Shiva and his consort Parvati]]. |
| 220 | * ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'': |
| 221 | ** Sload, the series' race of "slugmen" native to the archipelago of Thras to the southwest of Tamriel, are said to be hermaphrodites. It is believed that they absorb their sexual organs by the time they are capable of surviving on land, and indeed, there is never any mention of a Sload with a given sex. |
| 222 | ** Vivec from ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'' is a hermaphroditic PhysicalGod, though he is typically referred to as male. It's important to his mythic role as the Trickster/Stranger figure, where Sotha Sil is male (Clockwork King of the Three-And-One) and Almalexia is female (Face-Snaked Queen of the Three-And-One). Whether he was a hermaphrodite [[DeityOfHumanOrigin as a mortal]] is a source of debate amongst the fandom and is really only touched upon by [[WordOfGod developer written]] "obscure texts" not in the games themselves. |
| 223 | ** Vivec's "Anticipation" in the Dunmer religion is Mephala, a [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Prince]] whose sphere is "obscured to mortals" (but is typically associated with [[ManipulativeBastard manipulation, lies, sex, and secrets]]). Mephala is stated to be a hermaphrodite as well, though opposite of Vivec, is typically referred to as female and speaks with a feminine voice. Her statues and other depictions also include female secondary characteristics. |
| 224 | * According to interviews [[WordOfGod with Daisuke Ishiwatari]][[invoked]], this is the being that Testament from ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' became after being converted into a Gear, originally being male but gaining aspects of both traditional genders afterward. Officially, they are non-binary. |
| 225 | * In the Website/{{Facebook}} game ''Happy Aquarium'', one of your possible starting fish will have no gender indication, and be capable of mating with both sexes. |
| 226 | * [[ArtificialHuman Minogame]] from ''VideoGame/{{Hellsinker}}'' is a hermaphrodite. He was constructed that way in order to invoke the fusion of male and female into a godlike being. |
| 227 | * Kainé from ''VideoGame/NieR'' is confirmed from [[AllThereInTheManual Japanese-only bonus material]] to be a hermaphrodite even before being possessed by a male shade, due to an error in the replicant system. The English localization of the game kind of dances around the issue. |
| 228 | * ''VideoGame/{{Subnautica}}'': Scans and background material reveal that none of the life on planet 4546B is male or female, instead all of it is hermaphroditic or reproduces through parthenogenesis. |
| 229 | * The Liir from ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars'', as well as being psychic space-dolphins. |
| 230 | * The Father-Mother in ''VideoGame/ZenoClash'', the protagonist being one of her children -- who also murdered her in cold blood. [[spoiler:[[NotQuiteDead Not only does Father-Mother turn out to be alive after all]], he [[SubvertedTrope turns out to be a male creature pretending to be both father and mother]] to the diverse population, [[InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers after he stole them as babies]].]] |
| 231 | [[/folder]] |
| 232 | |
| 233 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 234 | * In ''VisualNovel/TheHouseInFataMorgana'', [[spoiler:Michel]] is born intersex and believed to be female at birth, but he [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} suffers from gender dysphoria]] and eventually realises he's male when his body becomes more masculine and much more comfortable to him at puberty. Characters who don't see him as an abomination often consider him to be OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous. |
| 235 | [[/folder]] |
| 236 | |
| 237 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 238 | * While most of the GenderBender magic in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' involves binary forms, if Grace's comments in [[http://egscomics.com/egsnp/2016-03-09 this strip]] is any indication, intersex forms are possible. |
| 239 | * The Aquaans in ''Webcomic/{{Harbourmaster}}'' are a fully hermaphroditic species. That said, they do have preferred pronouns per individual when interacting with Humans. |
| 240 | * Ame from ''Webcomic/{{Heartcore}}'' is a succubus and, as such, can grow a penis. |
| 241 | * ''Webcomic/{{Sonichu}}'' features Silvana, an evil villain who Count Graduon granted male and female genitalia along with shapeshifting abilities (intended as a reference to the Internet {{troll}}s who tease the author by falsifying their gender and spreading rumors about Rosechu being transgender). |
| 242 | * Ramona of ''Webcomic/StickyDillyBuns'' is intersex, [[https://pixietrixcomix.com/sticky-dilly-buns/not-tomboyish-at-all announcing the fact just as Dillon is telling her how completely feminine she is.]] Actually, she uses the term "hermaphrodite", evidently being less worried by the terminology than many people (including her sibling Angel). WordOfGod on [[http://www.pixietrixcomix.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=16480&start=15#p558623 the comic's discussion boards]] is that she has [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17-beta-hydroxysteroid_dehydrogenase_deficiency 17-beta-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase III deficiency]] and XY chromosomes, but is effectively fully female apart from being infertile; she has a regular heterosexual sex life. Also, writer Creator/GiseleLagace has noted [[https://twitter.com/GiseleLagace/status/743252469845725184 on Twitter]] that Ramona reflects [[WriteWhatYouKnow her own genetic circumstances]]. |
| 243 | * In ''Webcomic/SuperMegaTopia'', there is the Offenders' teammate [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin She-Male]]. |
| 244 | [[/folder]] |
| 245 | |
| 246 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 247 | * ''Literature/ChakonaSpace'': The [[OurCentaursAreDifferent centauroid]] CatFolk known as [[http://www.furry.org.au/chakat/ chakats]] are a genetically engineered race intentionally designed with fully functional equipment for both sexes. Many of the other species in the setting are hermaphrodites. The pronouns "shi" and "hir" that he came up with are often used by [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom furries]] with "herm" characters.[[note]]Also, more rarely, "xie" and "xir".[[/note]] In general, the UsefulNotes/FurryFandom produces many more hermaphroditic characters than your run-of-the-mill fandom. |
| 248 | * In ''Website/OrionsArm'', humanity has six "normal" genders, two are intersex (Ferm, Merm), one is a fully functional Hermaphrodite (Herm), and the sixth has no genitalia (Neut). And that's just humans. |
| 249 | * The main character of ''Literature/TheSagaOfTuck'' is eventually revealed to be intersexed, a genetic chimera with XXY / XX chromosomes, a functioning penis and one working ovary instead of testes. Assigned male at birth and initially unaware of his gender status, Tuck was already highly androgynous even before he started to develop female characteristics instead of male ones during puberty. The author has definitely ShownTheirWork, with a detailed description of how intersexuality occurs in the chapter where this is revealed. |
| 250 | * In ''WebAnimation/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers'', both Bob and Fishy Boopkins have claimed to have male and female genitalia. RuleOfFunny is in play. |
| 251 | %%* Appears several times in ''Roleplay/ToRule''. |
| 252 | * It gets complicated in the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'' because bilateral hermaphroditism can also be a (medical) transition state for a recently manifested mutant whose Body Image Template(BIT) has discordant sex and gender compared to their pre-manifestation sex and gender. Yes, Virginia, you might now self-identify as Virgil. [[TransformationAtTheSpeedOfPlot How long it takes to get there]] is another matter altogether. |
| 253 | ** Lancer is introduced as a bilateral hermaphrodite, born female but becoming male as a result of his BIT: "I sort of have both sets of equipment. But the doctor also says that my female equipment is shutting down." |
| 254 | ** While Lancer is still physically transitioning to male, Vamp is happily bilaterally hermaphroditic, though she was born male, has a feminine appearance and uses feminine pronouns. |
| 255 | ** Transect is said to have been a hermaphrodite, whose secondary sexual characteristics were decidedly feminine, as was her self-identity. Trusting her teammates with this information ended horrifically. |
| 256 | ** Circuit Breaker became a bilateral hermaphrodite as a result of their mutation. Assigned male at birth, like Transect, their (clothed) outward appearance is more female than androgynous. To complicate matters, of their four personalities, one is female, two are male, and one is asexual. Given later complications, it's difficult to be certain whether Cyber-Kitty is a true hermaphrodite, in the medical sense, or not. |
| 257 | ** At one point, Heyoka's doctors informed him that she was a 'sterile hermaphrodite'. That's a bit of a misnomer, because in a male form he could probably father a child, but she wasn't likely to stay female long enough while pregnant to carry a child to term. Born female, Jamie's default form is androgynous, a true hermaphrodite, but after channeling a gendered spirit they may be very much male or female. |
| 258 | ** Halcon Peregrino was born female, but has developed into a bilateral hermaphrodite or a true hermaphrodite. Either way, she's now estranged from most of her family. |
| 259 | ** Wallflower was born with female pseudohermaphroditism, which was surgically corrected to match her genetic sex and later hormone levels. |
| 260 | ** After she manifested, Tennyo's parents told her that she had been born with some form of hermaphroditism, leading Billie to be surgically assigned male at a young age. |
| 261 | ** Phase appears to have acquired male pseudohermaphroditism when his mutation manifested, along with severe gender dysphoria. Resorting to biodevisor tinkering hasn't exactly helped, as the results enhanced mostly his female secondary sex characteristics. |
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| 263 | |
| 264 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 265 | * ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': Roger's sexuality and biological sex are somewhat hard to discern due to BizarreAlienBiology. He's generally seen as male, goes through a "female phase" in one episode and in another claims he has no genitals (but his human girlfriend of the week says that's okay because ''she'' has both). This is at some point lampshaded when Roger (in his "Jenny" persona) has sex with Steve's friend Snot when Steve asks "You're an alien, how is that even physically possible?!", to which Roger tries to explain how but is interrupted. |
| 266 | * Played for horror in ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017''. The main villains' plan involves bringing a Rebis, a homonculus which is a stitched-together corpse of half-man and half-woman, to the titular castle, where [[spoiler:Saint Germain, opening a portal to Hell from Alucard's childhood room where Dracula was killed in Season 2, will not only be pulled back into the living world, but also with his wife Lisa. This was all because of Varney, who reveals himself to be [[EldritchAbomination Death]] who expects the insanity of them being in such a horrific form to cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. Luckily Trevor is able to destroy the Rebis before it gets any worse]]. |
| 267 | * Duckman's teddy bear secretaries Fluffy and Uranus from ''WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}''. They appear to be female and have feminine voices, but one episode implies that they have male genitalia. |
| 268 | * ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': |
| 269 | ** Peter apparently had a "broster" growing up who once asked if he wanted to see their "paginis". |
| 270 | ** A CutawayGag has a suddenly ''quite'' masculine-looking [[Series/TheFactsOfLife Jo]] unwittingly out herself as one, to Mrs. Garrett's horror. |
| 271 | --->'''Mrs. Garrett:''' You have ''both?!''\ |
| 272 | '''Jo:''' Well, yeah, [[IThoughtEveryoneCouldDoThat doesn't everybody]]?\ |
| 273 | '''Mrs. Garrett:''' ''No!'' |
| 274 | * The main character of ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'' is either a true or sequential hermaphrodite. Her friends seem to think she's female. It is actually part of a language joke: in her usual form, Kaeloo is a "frog" ("une grenouille"), which is a female word in French - but when she transforms, she becomes a toad ("un crapaud"), which is actually male. This is what started the references to her unclear gender. |
| 275 | * ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': |
| 276 | ** Cartman's mom was infamously revealed to be Cartman's father, as she is a hermaphrodite (and had sex with basically the entire town). It was later revealed that the town was lying to protect the Broncos, as [[spoiler:Jack Tenorman, Scott Tenorman's father had sex with Liane at the Drunken Barn Dance]]. |
| 277 | ** Cartman's cat, Mr. Kitty, has been shown as a cat in heat, then in a later episode as a fully functional tomcat. However, it could be possible that Mr. Kitty is a different cat in any episode he may have appeared in or that he doesn't really have a gender unless it's needed for any episode he appears in. |
| 278 | ** In "[[Recap/SouthParkS15E4TMI T.M.I.]]", one of the people angry about their penis size is a woman. |
| 279 | * In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', Stevonnie is a {{fusion|Dance}} between the half-human boy Steven and the full human girl Connie. They are non-binary and use they/them pronouns, and their fused body is canonically intersex. Appearance-wise, Stevonnie is androgynous, and while generally leaning feminine (most notably having a female voice actor), they began growing facial hair after being fused for just a few days. |
| 280 | * Yuck of ''WesternAnimation/YinYangYo'' is the combination of all the bad stuff from Yin and Yang (a brother and sister team). Even when he was seen leaving a restroom, in between the boys' and girls' restrooms was a restroom labeled with a question mark. |
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| 282 | |
| 283 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 284 | * ''Lots'' of invertebrate species are hermaphroditic, including such familiar creatures as earthworms and snails. One species that deserves special focus is ''C. elegans'', a nematode worm, which have males and hermaphrodites; hermaphrodites can [[ScrewYourself mate with themselves]] to produce more hermaphrodites, while males can only mate with hermaphrodites and have 1:1 sex ratio in their progeny. |
| 285 | * Some vertebrate species include certain fish such as Hamlets, Clownfish and Wrasses (although in the later two are sequential hermaphrodites. Meaning that they're usually one sex but will become the other under certain circumstances.) |
| 286 | * Very rarely an animal may develop as a bilateral gynandromorph. Where the individual develops male traits on one side of the body while developing female traits on the other side, leading to a chimera-like appearance, especially when there's a [[BizarreSexualDimorphism striking difference between males and females of the same species]]. So far this condition has been documented in insects, crustaceans, birds and reptiles, but is unheard of in mammals. |
| 287 | * A female anglerfish becomes this once a male [[FusionDance fuses himself to her body]] and degenerates into a pair of testicles. This can occur an indefinite number of times, so a female anglerfish can gain an indefinite number of ballsacks. |
| 288 | * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemartin Freemartins]] are masculinized infertile female cows (and sometimes also sheep, goats, or pigs) with male twins. During fetal development, blood vessels in twin calves' fetal membranes become conjoined, and the twins wind up sharing hormones and genetic material. In the case of mixed-sex twins, the female twin receives testosterone through this connection from her brother, which results in a genetic female that behaves like a male and has nonfunctional ovaries. Sometimes, the term shows up in speculative fiction works like ''Literature/BraveNewWorld'' or ''Literature/FootFall'' to refer to women that are sterilized and/or don't adhere to traditional feminine gender roles. |
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