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9	* ''VideoGame/AgeOfMythology'' has eight male major gods [[note]][[Myth/ClassicalMythology Zeus, Hades, Poseidon,]] [[Myth/EgyptianMythology Ra, Set,]] [[Myth/NorseMythology Odin, Thor and Loki]][[/note]] and only one major goddess ([[Myth/EgyptianMythology Isis]]). The ''Titans'' expansion averts the principle, by adding [[Myth/GreekMythology Gaia]], and the ''Chinese'' expansion made over a decade later adds [[Myth/ChineseMythology Nu Wa]].
10	* In the ''VideoGame/ApeEscape'' series, Pink Monkey is the only female of the Freaky Monkey Five...though you'd be forgiven for confusing Yellow Monkey for female too, with how flamboyant he is.
11	* In ''VideoGame/ArcStyleBaseball3D'', baseball teams compete with twelve members per team. By default, Team Wild Cats and Team Rhinos appear with a single female on each of their rosters.
12	* In the original ''VideoGame/ArtOfFighting'', up to ten martial artists are playable characters in the versus mode. Out of the ten, King is the game's only female, and she's [[SweetPollyOliver disguised as a male]]. The disguise allows for a GenderReveal, if she is [[SuppressedMammaries defeated by a special attack]] during the final round. Yuri gets PromotedToPlayable in the second to [[AffirmativeActionGirl subvert this trope]].
13	* ''VideoGame/ArmChamps'': Both the first game and it's sequel have only a single female opponent for the player to fight; A British wrestler named Nessie Papillon and a Russian bodybuilder named Trixie respectively. Both also serve as the first opponent in each game.
14	* Sally the hairdryer is currently the only known female character in ''VideoGame/BeaconOfHope'', although as the game is still in early development that may change.
15	* Although ''VideoGame/BendyAndTheInkMachine'' itself has multiple female characters, it's set in an old cartoon studio which, [[TruthInTelevision as was common at the time,]] had exactly one female character among its cast.
16	* Of the gang of playable characters in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'', three are male and one is female, who are all with a fourth man driving the truck. The female is introduced as "The Siren," which is barely a gnat's whisker away from simply calling her "the token girl."
17	** ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' is the same, right down to the lone woman being introduced "as The Siren" (though a different one), but one of the two DLC characters, the Mechromancer, is also female, bringing it up to TwoGirlsToATeam.
18	** Then ''VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel'' averts it right out of the gate, with an even 50/50 split (two men, two women) for the starting characters, and an equally even split for the DLC. (And, really, one could argue that there's only one man outside of the DLC, since the other "male" character is [[RobotBuddy Claptrap]]).
19	** And ''then'', ''VideoGame/Borderlands3'' outright [[InvertedTrope inverts]] it by having only one male (Zane) out of the four playable characters. The other three being two women(Amara and Moze), and a nonbinary robot, ([=FL4K=]).
20	* ''VideoGame/BillyHatcherAndTheGiantEgg'':
21	** Out of the four main characters, there's only one female: Rolly Roll.
22	** Ponee is only one female chicken elder, the rest are male; her being the only female elder is [[LampshadeHanging noted by an NPC]].
23	* In ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'', each social clique has only a single female member versus about half a dozen male members.
24	* In the long history of the ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' series, there are only two games with a female lead: ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLegends'' with Sonia Belmont (for bonus points, she's also the only playable female Belmont), and ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaOrderOfEcclesia'' with Shanoa.
25	* ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'': Early games usually had only one female per game (Tawna in the first, Coco in subsequent games). ''VideoGame/CrashTeamRacing'' introduced the Trophy Girls as background characters, while ''VideoGame/CrashTwinsanity'' was the first to give more than one female (Nina Cortex and Madame Amberly) a role in the plot.
26	** For the [[VideoGame/CrashTeamRacing first two]] [[VideoGame/CrashNitroKart racing games]], Coco Bandicoot was the only female playable. ''VideoGame/CrashTagTeamRacing'' brought the number of females to three with Pasadena O'Possum and Nina Cortex. ''VideoGame/CrashTeamRacingNitroFueled'' started with just Coco on release. The Nitro Tour Grand Prix then released [[PromotedToPlayable Tawna Bandicoot and the Trophy Girls]], followed by Nina in the Spooky Grand Prix, Pasadena in the Neon Circus Grand Prix, and Yaya Panda in the Winter Festival Grand Prix, bringing the total female count to ''nine''[[labelnote:*]]ten counting Baby Coco as a separate character[[/labelnote]].
27	** In ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot4ItsAboutTime'', Kupuna-Wa is the only female Quantum Mask. She is also, to date, the only female MaskOfPower in the series (previously, all masks had been male).
28	* ''VideoGame/CrazyTaxi'' has four playable drivers; one woman, three men.
29	* ''VideoGame/{{Darksiders}}'': Out of the six [[NominalImportance named angels]] in the series, only Uriel is female.
30	* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'':
31	** Tiny Kong was the only female member of ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'''s FiveManBand.
32	** Dixie Kong is the only playable female character in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryTropicalFreeze''. Though it's still an improvement over ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryReturns'', which didn't even have any female characters at all, playable or otherwise.
33	* ''[[VideoGame/{{Dota 2}} Dota 2]]'': Until Snapfire was added in 2019, Legion Commander was the only female Strength hero, whom during the transition from the game's original source, was genderbent from a male.
34	* ''Franchise/DragonAge'':
35	** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' describes the existence of the Forbidden Ones, four ancient demons who first taught {{blood magic}} to humans. Of the quartet, only the Undying Xebenkeck is identified as female.
36	** Throughout the entire franchise, the heroes battle demons of all shapes and sizes, but only one kind - ''desire'' demons - is explicitly female in appearance.
37	* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'':
38	** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestII'' introduced the Princess of Moonbrooke as the only female in a group of three and the first female playable character in the series after the original game only had a single playable character, who was male. As an establishment of the series' tradition, she is the party's dedicated magic user.
39	** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII'' has Jessica as the only female combatant and party member in a group of four in the original version of the game. Notably, it is the only other game in the series besides ''II'' with only one woman in the party as most of the games either had several female party members or allowed the player to create female characters. The 3DS version of the game added the thief Red as a second female party member.
40	** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestXI'': In the game's backstory, the original Luminary Erdwin had three companions, his party being modeled after the type of group a player can make in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIII''. Serenica is the only female companion of Erdwin and is the group's Sage.
41	*** Gyldygga is the only female member of Mordegon's Spectral Sentinels.
42	* ''VideoGame/DreamWorksSuperStarKartz'' only features one playable female racer among the other eight male racers: [[{{Franchise/Shrek}} Princess Fiona]]. Other female characters like [[Franchise/{{Madagascar}} Gloria]], [[WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens Ginormica]] and [[Franchise/HowToTrainYourDragon Astrid]] do appear in-game, but only as non-playable track decorations.
43	* Capcom's ''[[VideoGame/DungeonsAndDragonsTowerOfDoom Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom]]'' (based on ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'') has the female elf along with the male fighter, cleric, and dwarf.
44	* ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'':
45	** When Zhenji, Sun Shangxiang, Yueying, and Wang Yuanji each debuted, they were also the only female character in their faction (Wei, Wu, Shu, and Jin, respectively). It is eventually averted in the long run, although it is noteworthy that it took nearly a decade before Zhenji stopped becoming the only girl in Wei (the others merely needed 2-4 years).
46	** Diaochan was the only female character not affiliated with the Three Kingdoms until Zhurong was introduced in ''3''.
47	* All three games in the ''Videogame/{{MOTHER}}'' series have a playable party consisting of three male characters and one female character:
48	** ''VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings'': Ana is the only female character in the main party, since Pippi, whom Ninten saves earlier in the game, is just a GuestStarPartyMember.
49	** ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'': Paula is the only girl in the group. She's also the only one who doesn't have a stint where she is playable by herself, as each of the guys has an adventure before joining the party, but Paula instead joins after she's kidnapped and Ness rescues her.
50	** ''VideoGame/Mother3'': Kumatora is the only girl in the main party, but this is a bit more diverse in this game as the main party is more varied this time around; Lucas is a pre-teen boy, Kumatora is a teenage girl, Duster is a young adult, and Boney is a dog.
51	* ''VideoGame/EnsembleStars'' has Anzu as the only female student in her school's performance department. Apparently it runs in the family, as her brother from ''Ensemble Girls!'' served as TheOneGuy in a recently-integrated all girls' school.
52	* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}''
53	** ''VideoGame/Fallout1'' allows you to choose your character's gender, but of the four recruitable [=NPCs=] only one is female, allowing you to choose if the principle is in effect or averted.
54	** ''VideoGame/Fallout2'' increases the number of recruitable characters; eight males, four dogs, a robot...and one female human. The ''Restoration Project'' GameMod adds another female companion who was originally cut from the game, though.
55	** ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' goes for diversity over numbers; three male humans, a genderless (formerly male) super mutant, a dog, a robot, and ''[[AvertedTrope two]]'' [[AvertedTrope female humans!]] Later games continue this tradition.
56	** The [[AllThereInTheManual Fallout Bible]] mentions Vault 68, populated with 999 men and only one woman, and [[LOL69 Vault 69]], with [[TheOneGuy 999 women and only one man]]. It is never mentioned what happened in these vaults, but considering the [[CrapsackWorld tone of the games]] and the other vaults, they probably didn't end well.
57	* ''VideoGame/FatalFury'': The first game lacked any female fighters. In the second game, ''Fatal Fury 2'', eight new fighters were introduced, including the first female fighter in the series; the kunoichi Mai Shiranui. By the third game, it's established that female characters are introduced every game, but due to rotating some of the female characters out of the games as well, it doesn't guarantee that a given work in the multimedia franchise will have more than one female.
58	* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' has consistently averted the trope several ways.
59	** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'' used an all-male cast, with the exception of the WhiteMage who in the various [[UpdatedRerelease rereleases]] was [[WhiteMagicianGirl redesigned to be more feminine]] and is explicitly identified as female in the novelization.
60	** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'' averted the trope by utilizing TwoGirlsToATeam of ten, although for most of the game, Maria was the only female party member.
61	** The original version of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII'' stars the all-male Onion Knights; the remake for the DS makes one of them a girl.
62	** Every single-player game since ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' has a rule to avert the Smurfette Principle. Exactly three female characters in the playable cast, regardless of the total cast size. This even extends to entries of small cast sizes, like ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' (three women, two men) and '' VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'' (an all-female party of three). Because later games have gravitated toward a total playable cast size of 6, GenderEqualEnsemble is in effect.
63	** Ziggzagged in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV''. Early on it looks like Lenna is the only woman in a party with three men. Then subverted by revealing that Faris is [[SweetPollyOliver a woman in disguise]], turning it into a GenderEqualEnsemble. Then outright inverted when Galuf pulls a HeroicSacrifice and passes the torch to his granddaughter Krile, leaving Bartz as TheOneGuy.
64	** It is possible to have this trope in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''. Because Yuffie is an OptionalPartyMember and Aerith [[SacrificialLion kicks the bucket]] at the end of Disc 1, Tifa can become the only female party member to see the end of the game. This is the reason why Tifa even existed, to prevent it becoming ChromosomeCasting.
65	** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' keeps the rule with the three female characters, the rest of the trilogy greatly reduce the cast size. However, the only thing that is consistent is that [[FeministFantasy all three games feature female characters as the lead]] (Lightning in ''XIII'' and ''[[VideoGame/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII Lightning Returns]]'', Serah in ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2 XIII-2]]'').
66	** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV'' breaks the established rule by going back to an all-male cast, with occasional female guest characters.
67	** ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' has Terra as the sole playable female character in the story mode, because she's the only active female participant in Cosmos' side (Cosmos herself is never playable in any of the games, while Shantotto is a bonus character). This is even highlighted in the cover. The prequel adds Lightning, Yuna, and Tifa as Cosmos' fighters to even out the cast.
68	* For the longest time, Chica of the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' fame was the only animatronic officially confirmed to be a female. The principle is eventually averted as ''[[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysWorld World]]'' adds another confirmed female (JJ) and ''[[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation Sister Location]]'' adds a number of new female animatronics.
69	** ''VideoGame/FredbearAndFriends'' keeps up the trend with both the humans and the animatronics - Chica is the only female 'bot, while Ashley is the only female human.
70	* ''VideoGame/FridayNightFunkin'': Of the characters fought up to Week 7, the only explicitly female opponent is Mommy Mearest, Girlfriend's own mother.
71	* Both ''VideoGame/FlamingZombooka 2'' and its level pack have one selectable female character in the four-character cast, Ninjella for the former and Jennifer for the latter.
72	* While the main heroic cast of ''VideoGame/FugaMelodiesOfSteel'' averts this, it's played straight with the villainous Berman Empire, which out of the six generals, Flam Kish sticks out as being the only female.
73	* ''VideoGame/GateOfDoom'', known in Japan as ''VideoGame/DarkSeal'', has three male heroes (Knight, Bard, Ninja) and one female (Wizard).
74	* ''VideoGame/{{Gauntlet}}'':
75	** The original has three male (Warrior, Wizard, Elf), one female (Valkyrie) characters.
76	** Sequel ''Gauntlet Legends'' averts by making a GenderEqualEnsemble; the androgynous-looking elf is a female elven Archer.
77	** ''Seven Sorrows'' goes back to the original four characters.
78	* The only women in the entirety of ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'' are the black-clad assassins who never speak and only appear in two areas. Also, despite Black Mesa claiming to be an "equal-opportunity employer", all of its employees seen in the original are men, except for the holographic assistant in the optional tutorial. The cooperative expansion ''VideoGame/HalfLifeDecay'' for the [=PS2=] fixed this by having you play as either Gina Cross (who apparently lent her voice and likeness to the holographic assistant) or Colette Green. The FanRemake ''VideoGame/BlackMesa'' averts this with female scientists scattered throughout the facility (though for some reason, none of them seem to become [[PuppeteerParasite Headcrab Zombies]]).
79	* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'':
80	** Noble Team in ''VideoGame/HaloReach'' is made up of six Spartans, of which you are one. There's one female Spartan by default, allowing you to choose between SmurfettePrinciple or TwoGirlsToATeam, based on if you make Noble Six male or female.
81	** ''VideoGame/Halo4 Spartan Ops'': Fireteam Majestic begins with Tedra Grant (female) as part of the original Majestic line-up, along with Anthony, Carlo, Paul, and Gabriel (males). [[TwoGirlsToATeam Naiya Ray]] is introduced in ''Halo: Escalation''.
82	* Subverted in ''VideoGame/TheIdolmasterSideM'': Cafe Parade, one of the sub-units in the CastFullOfPrettyBoys, consists of 5 members... including Saki Mizushima, who is a WholesomeCrossdresser [[TransAudienceInterpretation (Even if it hasn't stopped some fans from seeing him as a closeted trans girl)]].
83	* ''VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram'' added a fourth playable character quite late in the development process; originally the kerbals were a SingleGenderSpecies. This can be seen as {{Invok\|edTrope}}ing the Smurfette Principle because Valentina is a [[DistaffCounterpart female clone of Jebediah]], other than a slight stat difference (she's marginally smarter and more courageous), she's superfluous because the original 3 males already cover all 3 character classes (Pilot, Engineer, and Scientist). However, the game provides a method for the player to {{avert\|edtrope}} the Principle with an endless number of randomly-generated astronauts of either gender can be hired to adjust the crew's gender ratio as you choose.
84	* ''VideoGame/KillerInstinct'' features eleven fighters. Initially, Black Orchid was the only female on the original cast of ''KI'' but when development started on season 2 of the 2013 game, [[WordOfGod it was revealed]] that Riptor is and always was a female, meaning the original ''KI'' actually had two female fighters.[[note]]Of course Riptor being a human-raptor hybrid meant there's still only one female in a group of ten humans.[[/note]]
85	* In the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' games:
86	** In the numbered games, while there are a small handful of important female [=NPCs=], when it comes to the playable characters, the three main characters are all male, and there's only one female GuestStarPartyMember in each game; Ariel of ''Franchise/TheLittleMermaid'' in the first one, Mulan of ''{{WesternAnimation/Mulan}}'' in ''KHII'', and Rapunzel of ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'' in ''KHIII''[[note]]however, Rapunzel leaves permanently upon reaching the festival, because her main weapon is her hair, and it's cut at the end[[/note]].
87	** There's also Organization XIII. Out of thirteen official members, there is only ''one'' female, that being Larxene. This is mainly because Xion is not considered an official member, and while she identifies as female, and Roxas and Axel (and later Riku [[spoiler:and Sora]]) see her as a 14-year-old girl, Xemnas and Xigbar see her as a early-teen boy, and Saix sees her as a faceless puppet. The creators originally planned on making Marluxia female as well, but changed their minds from the UnfortunateImplications of having two females plot against a male-majority organization, and are foiled by other males (namely Sora and Axel). However, they apparently decided to keep his design as it was, hence why Marluxia is a DudeLooksLikeALady.
88	** While there have been a couple of female playable characters, Aqua is so far the only one who has [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep a game]] (well, [[VideoGame/KingdomHearts02BirthBySleepAFragmentaryPassage two]]) tailored for her. Larxene and Xion are mere bonus characters in ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2'', while Kairi is playable in a single battle in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIIIReMind''. Until ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsX χ]]'', she is also the only female Keyblade Master in the series.
89	* ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' and its sequel [[JustifiedTrope justify their decision]] to use only three men and one woman as playable characters: [[spoiler: The gene to be resistant to TheVirus is recessive and carried on the x-chromosome. Women need two copies of the gene, while men only need one, explaining the genetically sound 3:1 ratio]].
90	* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel IV'', [[spoiler:six of the seven [[HumongousMecha Divine Knight]] [[TheChosenOne Awakeners]] are male, including TheHero, while the last one is a woman (though she's not the last Awakener to be revealed). Curiously enough, she's also the oldest of the seven Awakeners as she's [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld a 250+ year old]] LivingLegend from [[TheGreatOffScreenWar The War of the Lions]].]]
91	* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': For a given game, the Zora characters have [[MenAreGenericWomenAreSpecial usually only one female among a sea of muscular-bodied males]]. ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' is a notable exception, with both male and female Zora appearing as [=NPCs=] in roughly equal amounts.
92	* The [[Creator/SquareEnix Squaresoft]] RPG ''VideoGame/LiveALive'' lets you play as seven different protagonists during different periods of time, and all of them are male. Once you play all of the scenarios, [[TeamUpSeries all of the protagonists]] will come together to fight the BigBad for the final chapter. In the [[MartialArtsMovie Imperial China]] chapter, you initially play as an old martial arts master, and he spends a good portion of the story trying to find a worthy pupil who can pass the style of Kung-fu he has mastered. [[spoiler:He passes away at the end of his story, and it's his pupil who goes on to the final chapter.]] You can still avert this trope by picking [[ShrinkingViolet Yun Jou]] or [[{{Acrofatic}} Hong/Sammo Hakka]], but picking [[ActionGirl Lei Kugo]] as his successor will make her the sole female hero to appear in the final chapter.
93	* ''VideoGame/MegaManClassic'':
94	** The villains use the following naming scheme -- every Robot Master is called <word> ''Man''. During ''VideoGame/MegaMan9'', one of the eight villains was Splash Woman, finally participating in the Smurfette Principle.
95	** Until ''VideoGame/MegaMan4'', Roll was the only female character in the series.
96	* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' follows this trope almost religiously:
97	** In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', Sniper Wolf is the only female in the six-member FOXHOUND squad.
98	** In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty, Fortune is the only female leader in the Dead Cell terrorist group. Likewise, Olga seems to be the only female Russian soldier known and seen in both chapters.
99	** In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'', The Boss is not only the boss of the multinational six-member Cobra unit, she's also the only female.
100	** In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'', Rat Patrol 01 has Akiba, Johnny, Old Snake, Ed, (males) and Meryl (female).
101	** In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidV'', the player can recruit generic female soldiers, and there are audio tapes and flashbacks featuring important female {{Posthumous Character}}s, but it's really only Quiet who is important, onscreen and alive. This is part of the reason the MaleGaze elements of her design were controversial - ''Metal Gear'' has always had hyper-sexy female characters, but it wasn't usual for them to be the ''only'' woman.
102	* Despite being the flagship ActionGirl of the video game world, Samus Aran of ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' fame managed to become the Smurfette in ''her own series'' in ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime: Hunters.'' Six new bounty hunters were introduced, all of them male or [[PronounTrouble ambiguously so]]. ''Metroid Prime 3: Corruption'' is more gender-balanced, as one of the three new hunters is another female.
103	* Out of the dozens of characters in ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'', the only female character is your fellow Cobra pilot "Deadly" in the first game. Mostly justified by being a military game; while women are no longer barred from joining in a lot of places, real life militaries are still heavily male dominated.
104	* ''Franchise/MortalKombat''... Making [[VideoGame/MortalKombat1992 the first game]], the creators realized they didn't have any female fighters in their roster, so they changed the character of male Kurtis Stryker into female Sonya Blade. This made her the only woman out of 7 playable characters and 10 fighters overall. Later games have made sure to include additional female playable characters from the start. (Incidentally, Kurtis Stryker would eventually appear in the third game).
105	* ''VideoGame/NamuAmidaButsuUtena'' is a CardBattleGame with an overwhelmingly one-gender CastFullOfPrettyBoys in the veins of ''VideoGame/ToukenRanbu'' and ''VideoGame/BungoToAlchemist'', with one key difference that one character, Ashuku Nyorai, is an actual girl and not a crossdresser like in its predecessors.
106	* ''VideoGame/NezumiMan'' has Wave Nezumi, the only female boss of the eight.
107	* In ''VideoGame/OnePieceMansion'', Raspberry gets the descriptor of "The only female in Syndicate 5".
108	* ''VideoGame/PacMan'':
109	** The classic Ghost Gang lineup has [[PinkMeansFeminine Pinky]] as the sole girl of the group. It's subverted in ''VideoGame/MsPacMan'' where she's joined by Sue (who replaces Clyde), making the gang a GenderEqualEnsemble.
110	** Sue herself gets the role in ''VideoGame/PacLand'', since the game is a RecursiveAdaptation of [[WesternAnimation/PacMan the Hanna-Barbera cartoon]] where Pinky was {{Gender Flip}}ped to male.
111	* ''VideoGame/PanelDePon'': Played with depending on the adaptation:
112	** The original Japan-only version uses TheOneGuy instead, as it has many female characters and only one (confirmed) male character: Sanatos, the BigBad.
113	** The Western [[GenderFlip reskin]], ''Tetris Attack'' plays the trope straight, with Naval Piranha being the only confirmed female character.
114	* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
115	** In ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', as well as third version ''Crystal'', and remakes ''[=HeartGold=] and [=SoulSilver=]'', Karen is the only female Elite Four member. ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'' also has only one female Elite Four member in Bertha, but that is countered by Cynthia being the first female Champion in the franchise.
116	** ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'':
117	*** [[spoiler:We have Aether Foundation President Lusamine being the Pokémon series' very first female BigBad.]]
118	*** In Hau's team of six Pokémon, his only female is a Komala.
119	** In ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'' the FertilityGod brothers Tornadus, Thundurus, and Landorus are revealed to have a sister, Enamorus.
120	* ''VideoGame/PunchOut'': Alice from ''VideoGame/ArmWrestling'' is the only female character in the entire series who serves as an opponent. Ape III, her robot, fights in her stead, presumably because she's just a kid going against grown adults arm-wrestling.
121	* ''VideoGame/QuizAndDragons: Capcom Quiz Game'' (see [[http://www.gamesdatabase.org/game/arcade/quiz-and-dragons-capcom-quiz-game here]]) has three male heroes (Fighter, Wizard, Ninja) and one female hero (Amazon).
122	* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' tends to zig zag with the trope:
123	** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'' has Jill as the only female if you play as her. Chris's scenario has Rebecca as the sole female as well, though the trope can be avoided if you find Jill and keep Rebecca alive.
124	** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' gender inverts this with four playable characters: Claire, a female college student; Sherry, a little girl; Ada, a young woman looking for her reporter boyfriend; and Leon, a rookie cop thrown into a ZombieApocalypse on his first day on the job.
125	** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis'' has Jill as the only female in a cast of all males.
126	** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' has Sheva as the sole female for the majority of the game until [[spoiler: Jill]] shows up.
127	** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' has a near even amount of playable male and female characters for each scenario with Chris's scenario being the only one where he lacks a female partner.
128	* ''VideoGame/{{Robopon}}'': In the first game, Miss Amron is the only female Legend out of seven.
129	* In ''VideoGame/ScoobyDooWhosWatchingWho'', Professor Lorelei Leigh is the only female member of the Ghost Scene Investigation team.
130	* In the video game, ''[[Franchise/{{Rocky}} Rocky Legends]]'', Ludmilla is the only female fighter.
131	* In ''VideoGame/ScribblenautsUnlimited'', Maxwell has many, many siblings you can unlock and play as. Most of them are brothers, but there is ''one'' sister.
132	* In the first ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'', all of the Seraphim (Michael, Uriel, Raphael, and Gabriel) were presumably male, but the second game reveals Gabriel is a girl, and all subsequent works within the multimedia franchise featuring Gabriel retain their revealed genders.
133	* ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'':
134	** In each of the four games, there is only one female villain per-game (''VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves'' provides an exception, to be revealed at the climax).
135	** The Cooper Gang itself started off as an [[ChromosomeCasting all-male trio]]. During ''VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves'', the gang grows to a group of seven, with [[TheMole Penelope]] as the only female. [[spoiler:In ''VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime'', Penelope betrays the team, resulting in the Cooper Gang being all-male again.]]
136	* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
137	** The first female character even ''seen'' was Amy Rose, who showed up in ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogCD''. She tends to be the only girl among Sonic’s team when it consists of four people.
138	** In ''VideoGame/SonicLostWorld'', out of all members of the [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Deadly Six]], only Zeena (the green one) is female.
139	** Out of all the playable characters in ''[[VideoGame/SonicRivals Sonic Rivals 2]]'', Rouge the Bat serves as the only female character in the roster.
140	* ''{{VideoGame/Starcraft}}'':
141	** ''VideoGame/StarCraftI'' had exactly one named female character: Sarah Kerrigan, who is [[LeftForDead betrayed]] but rapidly becomes the [[BigBad queen bitch of the universe]] as the Queen of the Zerg.
142	** ''[=StarCraft: Brood War=]'', the expansion set to the first game, added Protoss matriarch Raszagal (the only female Protoss).
143	** ''VideoGame/StarcraftII'' expands the universe a bit, including adding supporting female human characters, but with Raszagal dead, the role of "only female Protoss" is Executor Selendis. But averted in ''Legacy of the Void'' with the inclusion of Raszagal's daughter, Vorazun.
144	* ''VideoGame/StarFox'':
145	** ''VideoGame/StarFox1'' (and the remake, ''VideoGame/StarFox64'') featured four male members (Fox, Falco, Peppy, and Slippy) and only one female character period--the sometime ally Katt, who assisted you in Zoness and Sector Z.
146	** During ''VideoGame/StarFoxAssault'', the team gained a permanent female member: Krystal from ''VideoGame/StarFoxAdventures''.
147	** The [[SavedFromDevelopmentHell formerly]] [[VaporWare unreleased]] ''VideoGame/StarFox2'' [[TwoGirlsToATeam added two female characters to the roster]] -- GenkiGirl Fay and ActionGirl Miyu.
148	** When ''VideoGame/StarFoxZero'' rebooted the series, Kat is back to being the only female in the Lylat System.
149	* ''Franchise/StreetFighter'':
150	** The first iteration of ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'' had only one female warrior out of twelve fighters, Chun-Li. ''VideoGame/StreetFighterI'' lacked even one, making her the first female of the series and genre with any sort of name recognition. The introduction of Cammy in ''Super Street Fighter II'' initiated an even more dramatic change; games afterwards would tend to introduce several female characters to round out the roster. One of Chun-Li's win quotes in ''VideoGame/TatsunokoVsCapcom'', which has a [[GenderEqualEnsemble roughly even male/female mix]], makes a CallBack to this trope: "I remember when I was the only girl on the roster."
151	** The cast of crossover characters from ''VideoGame/FinalFight'' initially featured four characters, all male, but this changed with the addition of Maki (from ''Final Fight 2'') in the portable versions of ''Alpha 3''.
152	** ''VideoGame/FinalFight Revenge'' features an all-male cast, excluding ([[ShesAManInJapan or including]]) Poison. The western release of the Super NES port of ''Final Fight'', [[WouldntHitAGirl replaced Roxy and Poison with two (non-crossdressing) dudes named Sid and Billy]], making Jessica (an NPC) into the only girl in Metro City.
153	* Blaze is the only playable woman in ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRage'' and remained as such in the sequels where the new characters were male. On the enemy side, there's only one female enemy type (not counting their PaletteSwap counterparts) while the third game adds a second female enemy type. ''Streets of Rage 4'' helped curb the issue by adding Cherry to the list of playable characters and a few more female mooks.
154	* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGoofs'' game ''Stupid Invaders'', Candy is a [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} trans woman]] due to AdaptationalGenderIdentity, and is therefore the only female member of the group.
155	* ''VideoGame/SuikoEnbu'' (AKA ''Outlaws of the Lost Dynasty''): Of the twelve characters in the game (plus two more with the additions of a sub-boss and [[VideoGame/FightersHistory Makoto Mizoguchi]] as a GuestFighter in the initial console ports), Hu San Niang is the only female character on the roster. The UpdatedRerelease, ''Suiko Enbu: Fuunsaiki'', subverts this by adding [[AffirmativeActionGirl Liu Yungmie]], another guest character from ''Fighter's History''.
156	* ''VideoGame/SuperKarts'': Katie Clark.
157	* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': The "core" group of Mario good guys, as seen in the Kart, sport, and party games, has gradually expanded to include more female characters (chiefly princesses), but it's been a long time coming:
158	** During ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'', Toad (male) and Princess Peach (female) were added to Mario and Luigi (both male) as playable characters. The DivergentCharacterEvolution of the ''Mario'' cast would inspire later games to include Princess Peach as the sole female playable character.
159	** [[Videogame/SuperMarioKart The]] [[Videogame/MarioKart64 first]] [[Videogame/MarioKartSuperCircuit three]] ''Videogame/MarioKart'' games had Princess Peach as the only female character in the roster. This was averted in the fourth game, ''Videogame/MarioKartDoubleDash'' with the addition of Daisy, Toadette and Birdo. Daisy in particular would never miss any other ''Mario Kart'' game ever since being introduced to the series, and the following games introduced more female racers such as Rosalina and Peach and Daisy's baby-selfs (''Wii''), [[VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy Honey Queen]] (''7''), Wendy O. Koopa and Rosalina's baby-self (''8'') and Pauline, Peachette and Dixie Kong (''Tour''), with the former two being added to ''8'' as part of the ''Booster Course Pass DLC''..
160	** The ''VideoGame/MarioParty'' games began with a cast of six playable characters, with Princess Peach as the only playable female character in ''[[VideoGame/MarioParty1 1]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/MarioParty2 2]]''. This was averted starting with ''VideoGame/MarioParty3'' when Daisy was [[TwoGirlsToATeam added to the cast]]. Later games would make Toadette, Birdo, Rosalina and Pom Pom playable too.
161	** When the Koopalings were introduced in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'', Wendy O. Koopa was the only one of the seven siblings to be female.
162	** There are generally next to no identifiably female enemy characters. Pom Pom, introduced in ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DLand'' (2011) is one of the few. Though the original ''Videogame/SuperMarioBros1'' manual did describe Cheep Cheep using female pronouns, with big Cheep Cheeps in particular being named Big Berthas.
163	** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'' has Mario adventuring with four other party members. Princess Toadstool (Peach) is the only female of the group. Likewise, the [[WolfpackBoss Axem Rangers]] has a sole female member.
164	** Starting with ''VideoGame/CaptainToadTreasureTracker'', Toadette entered the Toad Brigade as its only female member.
165	** Of the Bullet Bill family, the only species that has a feminine name is Missile Meg, a variant from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosWonder''.
166	* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros64'': In the first installment of the Nintendo MassiveMultiplayerCrossover, the only playable female was Samus Aran from the ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' games ([[SamusIsAGirl and even then her gender is hidden by her armor]]). Jigglypuff is often assumed to be female by fans, but like Pikachu (who is presumed to be male), Jigglypuff's gender is actually unknown and the game describes Jigglypuff as "it". This is averted in the sequels, where more female characters were eventually added to the roster ([[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Peach]], [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Zelda]], [[VideoGame/KidIcarus Palutena]], [[VideoGame/AnimalCrossing Isabelle]] etc.).
167	* ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole'' has eleven male party members and only one female, Call Girl a.k.a. Wendy. The player can make it TwoGirlsToATeam instead if they choose to have the New Kid identify as female, but even then only Call Girl ever actually finds out the New Kid is a girl and everyone else in South Park thinks that she's a boy, [[FailedASpotCheck no matter how feminine her features may be]]. The Casa Bonita DLC adds the goth chick Henrietta as a party member, bumping the female roster to a potential three.
168	* In ''VideoGame/TokyoAfterschoolSummoners'', the player character roster is made up of five different high school kids--four boys of all varying body types (short, muscular, fat, and PrettyBoy) while the last is simply an average-looking girl. As the gender selection is kept separate from the characters, this can be subverted by making any or none of them whatever gender the player wishes.
169	* In ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'', Shiki is the only female among Neku's partners.
170	* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': Out of the nine main classes, none of them are ([[AmbiguousGender clearly]]) female. The Pyro might be assumed to be male, but it's impossible to tell with their thick suit, mask and muffled voice. The game's other media embraces this and only ever muddies the water further. The only obvious woman in the game is "The Administrator", the angry voice that screams at you during rounds. The comics and later videos also have the character Ms. Pauling, but if you look just at the game, it follows this trope.
171	* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'': When it comes to the three members of the main team of Keves, Eunie is the only girl, even when Riku and Joran are also taken into account. Ironically, when it comes to Agnes, Taion is [[TheOneGuy the only guy in the group.]] This is just one of the things that connects Eunie and Taion together.
172	* ''VisualNovel/YourTurnToDie'': [[spoiler: If one takes the pathway where Alice and Shin live, then Sara Chidouin is the only non-doll female character alive by the end of Chapter 2.]]
173	* ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} III'':
174	** Out of all the 12 heroes available in the initial game, only one is female (Priestess of the Moon). The expansion averts this by adding three more female heroes (Warden, Dark Ranger, and Naga Sea Witch).
175	** Out of the normal units, the Alliance only has one female unit (the Sorceress) as well as the Undead (the Banshee). The Night Elves avert this, as they have multiple female units, while the Horde has none.
176	** The campaigns tend to follow this trope as well:
177	*** Every campaign in ''Reign of Chaos'' features only one named female character, playable or otherwise: "Scourge of Lordaeron" has Jaina; "Path of the Damned" has Sylvanas as a HeroAntagonist in the Quel'thalas missions; "Invasion of Kalimdor" has Jaina again, though only during the last two missions; and lastly, "Eternity's End" has Tyrande, though Jaina shows up for the FinalBattle, averting this trope.
178	*** ''The Frozen Throne'' expansion is a little better. A ''little'': "Terror of the Tides" averts this trope with three female characters (Tyrande, Maiev and Lady Vashj), but "Curse of the Blood Elves" plays it straight again with only Lady Vashj as its only female character for most of the duration, with Maiev showing up for one mission. "Legacy of the Damned" zigzags this trope: while it has two female characters in Sylvanas and Lady Vashj, the campaign follows two plotlines, with the each character taking part in only one of said plotline. Finally, "The Founding of Durotar" bonus campaign plays this straight again with Jaina as its only female character of note.
179	* ''VideoGame/WarOfTheMonsters'': Out of the 10 characters, Preytor is the only playable monster who is canonically female, given that an unused render shows her having laid eggs.

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