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Works which feature only male named characters or only female named characters, but not both. As the examples below demonstrate, most works like this tend towards the former. Commonplace in works in which the setting would [[JustifiedTrope necessitate such a casting choice]]: prison dramas, war films, sports dramas, ''etc.'' However, if employed in settings in which one would expect a gender diverse cast it can come off as incongruous (in some cases to the point of raising UnfortunateImplications). Depending on the choice of gender, it can serve as either the logical extreme of Usefulnotes/TheBechdelTest, or TheSmurfettePrinciple minus the Smurfette herself.

Note that all of the characters have to be explicitly male or female to qualify for this trope: the presence of named characters with an AmbiguousGender, characters with BizarreAlienSexes, or simply individuals with non-binary gender identities automatically disqualify a work from being an example of this trope.[[note]]In theory, if a given work only featured non-binary characters we could create a third section for those works, but it hasn't come up yet.[[/note]]

UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} characters count as the gender they identify as ([[NonIndicativeName despite the name of the trope]]), as do {{Crossdresser}} characters, even if they may present as another gender. It also doesn't matter if the characters are [[CrossCastRole played by an actor of another gender]] (as in many {{Theater}} productions): what matters is that the ''characters'' are all of one gender.

See also SlidingScaleOfGenderInequality, which concerns how the different genders are represented in media (this trope fits for the two extremes of that scale), {{Gendercide}} (when the reason of featuring only one gender was caused by in-universe DepopulationBomb), ImprobablyFemaleCast (female-dominated casts in unlikely situations), TheSmurfettePrinciple (when a single female character is featured in an otherwise all-male cast as a sop to gender equality), and TheOneGuy (the much less common SpearCounterpart). Contrast GenderEqualEnsemble, which averts this trope completely. Compare MonochromeCasting, the equivalent of this trope in race/ethnicity. Common for works with a MinimalistCast.

'''Note:''' This trope can account for edge cases, such as when the only characters of the opposite sex are background characters, extras, {{Mooks}} etc., but have no especial bearing on the plot or significant role in the work.

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!Examples:

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!!Male Only:

[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''Manga/{{Akagi}}'' has zero women onscreen in the entire show.
* Used in ''Anime/AiNoKusabi'' to justify its CastFullOfGay.
* While the series as a whole doesn't qualify, the [[ArcFatigue very long]] and mostly self-contained Namek arc of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' does due to taking place on a OneGenderRace planet that's been invaded by an EvilArmy. Bulma puts in a brief appearance at the beginning and again at the end, but that's it. Everyone else is a (male) [[SpacePirates Space Pirate]], a member of a OneGenderRace of men, or has the name "Goku", "Krillin", or "Gohan." Even characters glimpsed in flashbacks (Katas's son and Bardock) and the GreekChorus that we cut away to on Kaio's planet occasionally (Kaio, Yamcha, Tenshinhan, and Chaozu) are all male.
** ''Anime/DragonBallZTheReturnOfCooler'' features no women on-screen.
* Both ''Manga/{{Crows}}'' and ''Manga/{{Worst}}'' by Hiroshi Takahashi, seinen manga about inter-school fighting and manly friendship, feature no women whomsoever aside from occasional mentions (one of the main characters has no less than 6 girlfriends).
* The satirical manga and anime series ''Manga/CromartieHighSchool''. The mother of one character is seen in at least one episode... And "she" looks ''exactly'' like her son but with a skirt and longer hair.
* ''Anime/CuteHighEarthDefenseClubLove'' and [[Anime/CuteHighEarthDefenseClubHappyKiss its sequel]], perhaps to emphasize the gimmick of being a GenderFlipped MagicalGirl series, is set at an [[OneGenderSchool all-boys' school]] and never features a female character. (This becomes a bit odd when one of the first series' leads is supposed to be a heterosexual CasanovaWannabe.)
* ''Manga/SandLand'' has very few women onscreen in the entirety of its volume, and the ones that do appear are few-and-far-between nameless extras. The second arc "Angellic Heroes" in the 2024 anime adaptation would later avert this, however, with Princess Ann joining the main cast.
* Unlike the mixed-gender production studios of the [[Anime/TheIdolmaster first]] [[Anime/TheIdolmasterCinderellaGirls two]] series, ''Anime/TheIdolmasterSideM'' has everyone in 315 Productions be male. The AmbiguousGender producer of the game's Magazines was even adapted into a man here. The games also features Creator/YukoSanpei as the only female voice talent, the rest are all male, even the ones playing the young children and the WholesomeCrossdresser.
* ''Manga/{{Kaiji}}''. There is one woman on the show, but she only appears in a single scene in one episode and says no more than two lines.

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[[folder:Art]]
* With its basis in a meeting of the Son of God and his all-male Apostles, no woman makes an appearance in ''Art/TheLastSupper''.
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[[folder:Audio Drama]]
* ''Radio/DimensionX'':In [[Recap/DimensionX41Courtesy episode forty-one]], an [[AudioAdaptation adaptation]] of Creator/CliffordSimak's "{{Literature/Courtesy}}", despite having more than five characters, none of them are female.
* ''Radio/JourneyIntoSpace'':
** ''The Red Planet'' was the only entry in the original series to feature women in the cast: Miriam Karlin played an hallucination of Lemmy's mother in Episode 13 while Madi Hedd played Martha Bodie in Episodes 15 and 16.
** Cassia is the only female character to appear in ''The Return from Mars''.
** Edie Harper is the only female character to appear in ''The Host''.
* [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in ''Podcast/{{Malevolent}}''; every character with speaking lines is male, on account of every character with speaking lines [[ActingForTwo being played by creator Harlan Guthrie.]]
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/KidColt2009'': The cast is entirely male. Kid Colt's mother is briefly seen in flashback (one panel with the family, one panel as a silhouette, a final panel as a corpse), but gets no dialogue. The widows of former Confederate officer Wilks' soldiers are mentioned, but never seen or named.
* Many Franco-Belgian comics, like ''ComicBook/SpirouAndFantasio'' or ''ComicBook/JohanAndPeewit'', although some of them eventually got female characters in later entries.
** Among these, ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' are an unusual case, since they are known for TheSmurfettePrinciple, but most their actual classic stories were just with male characters, and the Smurfette was a one-shot character who didn't become a regular until years later.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''WebVideo/MichaelVsJasonEvilEmerges'' features the titular killers and few nameless extras, all of whom are male.
* ''Videogame/SCPContainmentBreach'' only has male characters.
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[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad'': The Adventures of Mr. Toad, the first story, has exclusively male characters. Mr. Toad and his horse do dress up as women at one point, though.
* The entire cast of ''WesternAnimation/PoohsGrandAdventure'' is male, since Kanga, the only named main female character in the franchise, is notably absent.
* None of the named characters in ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'' are female. (In the Gold Key Comics adaptation which used a discarded script for the movie, Rita the Meter Maid was a pivotal figure.)
* In the entire ''[[{{WesternAnimation/KillerBeanForever}} Killer Bean]]'' franchise, there hasn't been a female bean appearing nor mentioned.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action -- Military]]
* ''Film/ApocalypseNow'', which is both based on a book which is also an example of this trope (''Literature/HeartOfDarkness''; see below) and set in the military, almost every character is a member of the armed forces. In the original version, the only female characters who appear at all, aside from unnamed Vietnamese and Cambodian civilians, are the Playboy bunnies sent to Vietnam to entertain the troops. Needless to say, they receive little screen time, don't have any discernible dialogue, and don't play much of a role in the actual plot. Downplayed in the 2001 recut ''Apocalypse Now Redux'', which adds a few scenes with female characters. The Playboy bunnies are encountered again and have some actual dialogue, and a few scenes with a group of French colonists includes some female speaking roles, though none have much importance to the plot.
* ''Film/BlackHawkDown'' has only Shughart's wife answering the phone too late.
* ''Film/DasBoot'', set on a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII German submarine, if you except the hooker/singer Monique during the party at the beginning, and Ullmann's French girlfriend he says goodbye to before going on the submarine. Like most militaries of the time, the [[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons Kriegsmarine]] [[JustifiedTrope didn't allow women to serve as anything but nurses or auxiliaries, never allowing them on ships]].
* ''Film/TheBunker2001'' focuses on nine German soldiers trapped in a bunker on the German-Belgian border in the closing days of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Not only are all the major characters male, but every bit part, extra and character seen in flashback is also male.
* ''Film/CrimsonTide'' has Hunter's wife as the only woman appearing very briefly at the beginning of the film.
* ''Film/TheDeserter'' takes place among either US cavalry troops or Apache war bands and features almost no women. The only woman of any consequence is Kaleb's wife who is onscreen for only a couple of minutes and dies without saying anything comprehensible.
* ''Film/TheDirtyDozen'' has no named female characters, and only one of the female extras does anything more than mill around in the background during crowd scenes at the chateau or dance with the Dozen at the party in the camp. The sole exception gets to scream once and be murdered by Magot.
* ''Film/DrStrangelove'' has precisely one female in the movie, a secretary, who is also a ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' centrefold.
* ''Film/{{Dunkirk}}'' has only two, very brief female speaking roles by servicewomen. [[https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2017/jul/26/bloodless-boring-empty-christopher-nolan-dunkirk-left-me-cold At least one critic]] has argued that this constitutes one of several significant historical inaccuracies in the film.
* ''Film/TheEnemyBelow''. The only characters in the film are the all-male crews of a U.S. Navy ship and a German U-boat.
* ''Film/AFieldInEngland'' feature six characters, all of them male. Somewhat understandable, given the limited cast and wartime setting. The only actress in the film [[ItMakesSenseInContext voices the field]].
* ''Film/FullMetalJacket'' has a couple of Vietnamese prostitutes and a very young Vietcong girl in an otherwise male dominated warzone. Ironically one of the prostitutes has one of the film's most famous lines ("Me love you long time").
* ''Film/{{Gettysburg}}'': There is talk of wives left behind, but the only women that actually appear in the film are either waving to the troops or tending the wounded in the background.
* ''Film/TheGreatEscape'' is about a mass escape from a German POW camp in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, all of the characters being male. There are a few women as background scenery in some of the city scenes post-escape, but that's about it.
* ''Film/HostileWaters'', set primarily on a Soviet submarine at the height of the Cold War. One female US Navy officer does appear as a shore based watch officer, but all other speaking characters are male.
* ''Film/K19TheWidowmaker'', set on a Russian submarine during the Cold War.
* ''Film/KellysHeroes'': No female characters at all, unless there are a few in the crowd dancing in the streets in the final scene after Clairmont's liberation.
* ''Film/LawrenceOfArabia'' has no female speaking parts (unless you count people singing in the background).
* ''Film/{{Lebanon}}'' follows an Israeli battle tank crew during the Lebanon War of 1982, and pretty much everything happens inside the tank. There's no female characters to speak of, only some civilian Lebanese women caught in the war who can be seen through the tank's gunsight.
* ''Film/MasterAndCommander'': Neither the French nor Royal Navies allowed female sailors, and privately owned ships generally considered it bad luck to have women aboard ship (not to say that women ''never'' sailed, but they were relatively rare). The solitary woman in the movie is a Brazilian lady who's on screen for all of five seconds doing nothing but twirling a ParasolOfPrettiness.
* There are no women in ''Film/{{Outpost}}'', with the mercenary team and the undead Nazi soldiers of the bunker all being male.
* ''Film/{{Patton}}'' has only one female speaking role, the dignitary of the Knutsford Welcome Club who introduces General Patton.
* ''Film/{{Platoon}}'', appropriately given the military setting. The only women who appear onscreen are unnamed Vietnamese civilians.
* ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'' is set entirely during the Battle of Normandy from the viewpoint of a US Army squad. As such there are no women in the film aside from some background extras and very minor [[SpearCarrier bit parts.]] [[https://entertainment.ie/movies/movie-news/theres-an-all-female-cut-of-saving-private-ryan-and-its-two-minutes-long-228102/ The satirical all-female cut of the film]] is two minutes long.
* ''Film/TheWildGeese'' has precisely three female speaking parts.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action -- Other]]
* ''Film/TwelveAngryMen'': Since women serve in juries nowadays, adaptations often change this. There's also a {{gender flip}}ped version, ''Twelve Angry Women''.
* ''Film/AllIsLost'' is an unusual example since Creator/RobertRedford is the '''only''' character in the entire movie. (And he doesn't even get a real name; he's billed as "Our Man.")
* In ''Film/BigGame'', there's only a single woman on screen in the entire film, and she's never given a name or function.
* ''Film/TheBoondockSaints'': No named female characters appear in the film. Only one even interacts with the main characters (at the beginning).
* ''Film/BoysTown'', the story of Father Flanagan's home for troubled boys. Justified in that Boys Town was a boys-only facility that didn't go co-ed until 1979. The only speaking part in the film played by a female is a nurse at the infirmary. She has one line.
* ''Film/{{Deliverance}}'' has no female characters of any significance, with all of the protagonists and their hillbilly stalkers being male.
* In ''Film/TheDevilsPlayground'', Mrs. Sullivan is the sole female presence among the otherwise all-male main cast. {{Justified|Trope}}, as the film is set in an all-male religious community.
* ''Film/{{Dreamcatcher}}'': A stranger in the street early on and numerous extras in the military camp are the only women in the film.
* ''Film/DuckYouSucker'' has one woman who appears in flashback with no lines, and the only other woman is an annoying racist who is out of the picture in the first 15 minutes.
* ''Escape Wrestling/TheUndertaker'' has the titular character himself plus the (all male) members of Wrestling/TheNewDay.
* ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'' had two women in supporting roles - except neither got much screentime. One was running the gang whom the story puts less focus on, and the other is just a DamselInDistress whose only purpose is to give Creator/ClintEastwood's character a PetTheDog moment towards the end.
* ''Film/GlengarryGlenRoss'' is devoid of women except for two words spoken by an unnamed restaurant employee in the background of one scene.
* ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'': Maria, a prostitute appearing in a single scene, is the most important female character and the only one given a name. Four women are seen on screen during the three-hour movie (with something like eight minutes of screen time between them), and only one of them besides Maria has any dialogue at all.
* The British monster movie ''Film/{{Gorgo}}'' is mocked for this by the [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]] crew. The only woman who appears is in the background of a crowd scene. Granted, the monster that destroys London in the climax is a female.
* ''Film/{{Killdozer}}'' is about an all male construction crew versus a [[HauntedTechnology killer bulldozer]].
* All speaking characters in ''Film/TheLastOutlaw'' are male. Women only appear very briefly as background characters in the town and saloon scenes.
* ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'': of the film's 44 speaking parts, only two are female - Tanya (the lady at the poker game) and Gloria (the spaced out girl at the dealers' place). And the latter only speaks once.
* ''Film/MyDinnerWithAndre'' features only two characters, both of whom are men. (A waitress serves them briefly.)
* ''Film/NoEscape1994'': There are absolutely no female characters in the film. Every single character is male, even all the technicians in the prison control room. The only one that is mentioned is The Father's deceased wife, and just ''maybe'' you can briefly see a woman's silhouette in Robbins' FlashbackEcho. {{Justified|Trope}} in that the plot of the movie involves futuristic prisons which in RealLife are nearly all segregated by sex.
* In ''Film/TheRaid'' there are only three women with any speaking lines. None are named and none appears for more than one scene. ''[[Film/TheRaid2Berandal Berandal]]'' fixes this a bit by having one of Rama's antagonists be the [[DarkActionGirl Hammer Girl]].
* ''Film/ReservoirDogs'', concerning a group of male jewelry store robbers. The original script did have a female speaking role and the actress cast in the role filmed her scenes, but [[Creator/QuentinTarantino the director]] cut the scenes as they revealed too much about the twist too soon. The only female character is a PlotDevice - she shoots Mr. Orange in carjacking attempt.
* The only female character of significance in ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'' is Andy's wife, who is never named, has no dialogue and is killed in the first five minutes. Most of the film is set in a men's prison, justifying the trope.
* ''Film/SilentRunning'' has four male characters, three of whom are killed off, leaving the remaining one with three robots.
* The only speaking female role in ''Film/SixReasonsWhy'' is a radio announcer. The only women to appear onscreen are Nomad's mother and two geisha in the town of New Gibraltar, none of whom speak or are onscreen for more than a minute or so.
* ''Film/{{Snatch}}'' has four female speaking parts - Doug the Head's twin daughters, Mickey's mum and the clerk at the bookies.
* Being set in a men's prison, the cast of ''Film/StarredUp'' is almost entirely male. The only female character is the very minor role of Nurse Bankford: a CreatorCameo by casting director Aisha Bywaters.
* ''Film/TheThing1982'' takes place in a research station in Antarctica, with only men working there. Because of the setting, no women appear in the movie at all. It was originally cast with one of the researchers female, but the actress had to pull out due to illness and the role was recast with a male actor. This made it more faithful to the source material (see below) and heightened the tension, with a bunch of people running around in beards and puffy jackets with all the same body shape it is much harder to keep track of who is infected.
* ''Film/TheTreasureOfTheSierraMadre'': outside of the occasional extra during the earlier scenes, the cast of the movie consists of three men, four if you include Cody (who isn't in the movie for very long but has a major impact on the plot). There's also the bandits, but they're not given as much focus.
* ''Film/WithnailAndI'', centering on the two titular characters and Withnail's uncle Monty. All of the secondary characters are also male. The only female characters who appear onscreen are a local farmer's wife who has three or four lines of dialogue, and a handful of extras.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Played with in ''Literature/AfterDoomsday'', which has a TwoLinesNoWaiting plot involving an all-male spaceship crew and an all-female crew on another spaceship, who are the [[ButWhatAboutTheAstronauts only survivors after Earth is destroyed]]. Naturally the survival of the species [[AdamAndEvePlot depends on them finding each other]].
* Creator/IsaacAsimov:
** ''Literature/BlackWidowers'' concerns the dinners of a men-only club. Aside from the six members, their male waiter is the only other recurring character, and guests are required to be male -- though this rule was violated ''once'', since Asimov wanted to see Rubin throw a fit.
** ''Literature/TheCompleteAdventuresOfLuckyStarr'': An exclusively male cast. There is an [[AvertedTrope aversion]] in ''Literature/LuckyStarrAndTheOceansOfVenus''; a housewife with speaking lines who is on-screen for less than a chapter. Otherwise, the protagonists, antagonists, and suspects are always male characters.
* ''Literature/HeartOfDarkness'' by Creator/JosephConrad. Most of the characters work for an ivory trading company at a time when women in the workforce were decidedly scarce. There is a female character with a short but thematically important speaking part -- she just isn't named.
* ''Literature/TheHobbit'': There isn't a single named female speaking role (some of the elves, humans or spiders are given female pronouns but remain nameless). The film adaptations avert this, bringing in Galadriel with the White Council subplot, as well as Tauriel, an elf invented for the films.
* The entire regular cast of ''Literature/HorusHeresy'' is male, which matches [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}} the setting]] in that all the Primarchs are male and ''only'' men can become [[SuperSoldier Space Marines]].
* ''Literature/HowNotToWriteANovel'' refers to the tendency of male authors writing novels with exclusively male casts as the "Stag Night", noting that it's particularly common in science fiction.
* ''Literature/TheIronDream:'' There is not a single line of dialogue spoken by a woman. The words 'she' and 'her' simply do not appear at any point in the book. Note that this was done deliberately by the author, who was writing a parody.
* ''Literature/TheLongestJokeInTheWorld'' has only male named characters.
* ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies''. All of the characters are pupils from an all-male boarding school who get stranded on a desert island.
* Despite a massive array of texts, only one of the stories written by Creator/HPLovecraft, "Literature/TheThingOnTheDoorstep", had a significant female character, and even then there was a whole complicated thing [[spoiler:where it turned out to actually be her father who had stolen her body, and at the very end, the narrator's best friend trapped inside her decomposing corpse.]]
* ''Literature/TheNapoleonOfNottingHill'' by Creator/GKChesterton. No special reason; it just focuses on a fairly small group of main characters who happen to be all male.
* Every single named character in ''Literature/ProkletaAvlija'' is male. Somewhat {{justified|Trope}}, as for the most time, it takes place in an Ottoman prison.
* ''Literature/SmallGods'' has an all-male cast. The only mention of women are in Brutha's recollections of his horrifying grandmother and the presence of a couple of goddesses in non-speaking roles. (The Church admittedly doesn't approve of women, and the setting's other major location specifically excludes women when referring to "the people", alongside children, foreigners, and "people who really aren't our kind of people").
* There are no female characters aside from a scant few mentions of Hyde's victims in ''Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde''.
* There are no women whatsoever in ''Literature/Wasp1957''. Nobody female is even mentioned, even as a background character.
* The short story "Literature/WhoGoesThere", upon which the aforementioned film ''Film/TheThing1982'' was based.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/{{Creepshow}}'': The cast of "[[Recap/CreepshowS3E6OkayIllBite Okay I'll Bite ]]" consists almost entirely of men. The only females present are Elmer's mother in his dream, and those at Elmer's parole hearing. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as it's set in a men's federal prison.
* Given that ''Series/{{Colditz}}'' takes place in a World War II prisoner of war camp, the majority of episodes feature all-male casts. Occasionally, female characters appear in scenes set outside the camp but only Lt. Simon Carter's wife Cathy appears in more than one episode. She appears in two episodes, "Missing, Presumed Dead" and "Odd Man In".
* There are only two ''Series/DoctorWho'' stories with no female characters in them at all - "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E2MissionToTheUnknown Mission to the Unknown]]" (only men, male aliens and Daleks), and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E3TheDeadlyAssassin The Deadly Assassin]]" (with the exception of Spandrell's computer speaking with a female voice).
** There are some stories where the companion is either the only female character or one of very few - "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E1TerrorOfTheAutons Terror of the Autons]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E2TheArkInSpace The Ark in Space]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E3TheSontaranExperiment The Sontaran Experiment]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks Genesis of the Daleks]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E5RevengeOfTheCybermen Revenge of the Cybermen]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E1TerrorOfTheZygons Terror of the Zygons]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E2PlanetOfEvil Planet of Evil]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E3PyramidsOfMars Pyramids of Mars]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E4TheAndroidInvasion The Android Invasion]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E6TheSeedsOfDoom The Seeds of Doom]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E1TheMasqueOfMandragora The Masque of Mandragora]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E4TheFaceOfEvil The Face of Evil]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E1HorrorOfFangRock Horror of Fang Rock]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E6TheCavesOfAndrozani The Caves of Androzani]]" to name a few.
* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'' episodes "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S1E31TheChameleon The Chameleon]]" and "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S2E7TheInvisibleEnemy The Invisible Enemy]]".
* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'' episode "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S2E18TheLightBrigade The Light Brigade]]".
* ''Series/{{Porridge}}'', as one might expect from a series set in a prison. Scenes set in the governer's office include his secretary, and Fletcher is sometimes visited by his daughter, but most episodes feature neither of them.
* ''Series/QuantumLeap'':
** The episode "Unchained" features an all-male cast, as it deals with an escape from an all-male prison.
** In the series finale "Mirror Image," the only people seen in Cokeburg are male, including all the dopplegangers of people he'd leaped into or helped during his leaps, leading to a situation where Sam doesn't see any dopplegangers of women he'd leaped into or helped. The only woman seen in the entire episode is Beth Calavicci, who appears in a flashback, and again at the very end when Sam leaps into her house in 1969.
* ''Series/RedDwarf'', mostly. There are only three seasons with a woman in the regular cast (Holly in III and Kochanski in VII and VIII) and the earlier seasons, which made much more of the Dwarfers being alone in the universe, rarely even had female guest stars (Series I had Kochanski before the accident in "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonITheEnd The End]]" and in a flashback in "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIBalanceOfPower Balance of Power]]", which also has Rimmer in Kochanski's body; Series II had another appearance by Kochanski in "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIIStasisLeak Stasis Leak]]", the GenderbentAlternateUniverse Dwarfers in "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIIParallelUniverse Parallel Universe]]", and the crew of the Nova 5 in "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIIKryten Kryten]]" ... [[MummiesAtTheDinnerTable if that counts]]).
* The ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E25TheDevilInTheDark The Devil in the Dark]]" is the only ''Franchise/StarTrek'' production to feature an all-male cast, not counting a non-speaking female extra who walks by in one scene. The alien of the week, the Horta, ''is'' female, however, so technically there is a prominent female character in the episode. Even so, the Horta is played by a male actor, Janos Prohaska.
* This occurs quite often in ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'', particularly when the relevant episodes have military themes: "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E1WhereIsEverybody Where Is Everybody?]]", "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E15IShotAnArrowIntoTheAir I Shot An Arrow Into the Air]]", "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E18TheLastFlight The Last Flight]]", "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E19ThePurpleTestament The Purple Testament]]", "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E20Elegy Elegy]]", "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E25TheSilence The Silence]]", "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E6TheMirror The Mirror]]", "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E11StillValley Still Valley]]", "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E13OnceUponATime Once Upon a Time]]", "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E15AQualityOfMercy A Quality of Mercy]]", "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E20ShowdownWithRanceMcGrew Showdown with Rance McGrew]]", "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E28TheLittlePeople The Little People]]", "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E30HocusPocusAndFrisby Hocus-Pocus and Frisby]]", "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S4E2TheThirtyFathomGrave The Thirty-Fathom Grave]]", "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S4E4HesAlive He's Alive]]", "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E2Steel Steel]]", "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E5TheLastNightOfAJockey The Last Night of a Jockey]]" (in which Creator/MickeyRooney was the only actor to appear), "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E10The7thIsMadeUpOfPhantoms The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms]]", "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E31TheEncounter The Encounter]]" and "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E33TheBrainCenterAtWhipples The Brain Center at Whipple's]]". Several of these episodes feature female extras while others have no women on screen at all. Jack Klugman and Jonathan Winters are the only actors to appear on screen in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E5AGameOfPool A Game of Pool]]", but there is a brief voice-over from an uncredited female actor during the two scenes set in the afterlife. Martin Landau, John van Dreelen and Robert Kelljan are the only actors to appear on screen in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E29TheJeopardyRoom The Jeopardy Room]]", but the voices of two uncredited actresses are heard in the final scene.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'':
** "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E7 Paladin of the Lost Hour]]", "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E8 Act Break]]", "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E22 Take My Life... Please!]]" and "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S3E21 Room 2426]]" do not feature any speaking roles for women.
** No women appear in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E8 Dealer's Choice]]", "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E12 I of Newton]]", "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E16 The Elevator]]", "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E22 Devil's Alphabet]]" and "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S3E20 A Game of Pool]]".
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[[folder:Music Videos]]
* Music/TheUltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny's video features dozens of characters, but almost no female ones. Averted in the 15th Anniversary Redux version, which adds several females.
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[[folder:Podcasts]]
* Every character in ''Podcast/{{Malevolent}}'' is played by one man, Harlan Guthrie, [[JustifiedTrope so as a result there are almost no female characters]], and the few that pop up have few or no speaking lines.
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[[folder:Theater]]
* ''Theatre/AmericanBuffalo'' has an all-male cast.
* ''Theatre/TheBoysInTheBand'', whose plot revolves around a group of gay men in New York.
* ''Theatre/CesareIlCreatoreCheHaDistrutto'' takes place in a university in 1491, and adapts the early part of the source material, before any of the major female characters, like the protagonist's sister, appear. The female ensemble members who appear are shown equally with the males, working more closely together in the workshop scene [[PoliticallyCorrectHistory than they would have in real life]]. One scene also features a mix of male and female backup dancers in costumes that make them all appear androgynously beautiful. It appeals to the same 2.5D audience as Touken Ranbu, Tsukipro, and Theatre/ThePrinceOfTennis, and the cast includes actors who have appeared in all three of those series, as well as A3 and Ensemble Stars.
* The cast of ''Theatre/TheClub'' consists of six men (typical for professional sports in Australia in the late 70s). TheMovie adds a few female characters, but none in a major role.
* ''Theatre/GlengarryGlenRoss'' has an all-male cast and is set in a high power real estate office.
* All the versions of ''Theatre/{{Sleuth}}'' (the original play, the 1972 movie version, and the 2007 remake) have a MinimalistCast, where the male stars are pretty much the only characters we ever see. The 1972 movie has one short scene with a female character, but she isn't named, while the wife of one of the main characters can briefly be seen from behind in the closing scene of the 2007 version (but receives no lines).
* Jason Miller's ''Theatre/ThatChampionshipSeason'' features a cast of five, including four former members of a high school men's basketball team and their coach.
* The audience for 2.5D stage plays like the ''Theatre/MusicalToukenRanbu'' series are generally 90%+ female, and there to see the CastFullOfPrettyBoys, so the CanonForeigner characters tend to be pretty boys as well. There has only been one female character in the series, played by a Creator/TakarazukaRevue graduate.
* The same rule applies to the ''Theatre/{{Tsukiuta}}'' series. There are exceptions -- the Bird Queen in ''Rabbits Kingdom'', Queen Musa in ''Theatre/TsukinoEmpire 2'', and [=SeleaS=] members Tsubaki and Reina in ''Shiawase Awase''. Fluna and [=SeleaS=] have their own series, as well -- see below. Two plays in the ''Theatre/TsukinoHyakkiYakou'' universe have had female original characters despite having only male idols.
* ''Theatre/WaitingForGodot'': Vladimir, Estragon, Pozzo, Lucky and a small boy (some productions play with this, given that "Pozzo" and "Lucky" are decidedly androgynous names).
* ''[[Theatre/YoRHa YoRHa Boys ver. 1.0]]'' featured an all-male cast, contrary to most of the ''[=YoRHa=]'' plays.
* The ''Literature/MobyDick'' opera has an all-male cast like the book it's based on, as it takes place on a whaling vessel. That being said, the role of Pip the cabin boy is traditionally [[CrosscastRole played by a woman]].
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[[folder:Toys]]
* Usually, Franchise/{{LEGO}} averts this trope, even if it's by means of TheSmurfettePrinciple, but there are a few exceptions:
** Early ''Technic'' spinoffs, including ''Competition'', ''{{Toys/Slizer}}/Throwbots'', and ''Toys/RoboRiders'', only featured male characters. ''Toys/{{BIONICLE}}'' was the first to break the mold.
** ''[[Toys/LEGODinoAttack LEGO Dino 2010]]'' had a cast consisting entirely of four men. Its American counterpart, ''LEGO Dino Attack'', just barely averts this with the appearance of Dr. Nicole Soscia in one of the online stories.
** The Aquanauts, Aquasharks, Aquaraiders, and Stingray factions of ''Toys/{{Aquazone}}'' feature no female characters. The later SpiritualSuccessor ''Aqua Raiders'' did not have any female characters either.
** Unlike its predecessor ''Toys/RockRaiders'', ''Toys/LEGOPowerMiners'' did not have any female characters.
** The second ''Toys/LegoSpacePolice'' line, ''Spyrius'', ''[=RoboForce=]'', and ''UFO'' feature no female characters.
*** In the sets, ''Toys/LEGOMarsMission'' has an entirely male cast. However, the ''LEGO Battles'' videogame averts this by introducing two female characters that did not appear in the original toyline: Gemma and the Alien Queen.
** ''Toys/LEGOTimeCruisers'' and ''Time Twisters'' feature only male characters, even in the ''LEGO Mania'' {{crossover}} comics with other themes, though this was averted in the ''World Club Magazine'' comics.
** Although neither ''Toys/KnightsKingdom2'' nor ''Toys/LEGOVikings'' featured female characters in the main toylines, this was averted in the chess sets for each line due to the need for a queen.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Mixels}}'', for the longest time, lacked any female-presenting Mixels, as they have NoBiologicalSex, but the ones introduced had been male-presenting so far. Finally, the episode "Every Knight Has Its Day" revealed the female-presenting Flexer teacher, though female-presenting ones had been hinted at for a long while.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/TeamFortressClassic'' had nine (ten, if you count the Civilian) class models, all male. Comics released for ''Team Fortress 2'' claim that the Pyro was [[RetCon retroactively female]], but in ''Classic'' itself the Pyro uses a male voice, and in his original model had a visible face that was clearly male (and looked nothing like the one in the comic).
* ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'': aside from a pre-recorded hologram that appears in the optional tutorial, as well as a handful of FacelessMooks appearing in two rooms with no dialogue, every human character is male. ''VideoGame/HalfLifeBlueShift'' doesn't even go that far and just has nothing remotely resembling a female period. Averted with ''[[VideoGame/HalfLifeDecay Decay]]'', which has two female protagonists, though they're still the only females in the game with dialogue. The FanRemake ''VideoGame/BlackMesa'' also averts this by putting in a few female scientists. In any case, this is mostly justified by the setting, where most every character is a theoretical physicist, a security guard, or a soldier, all of these being overwhelmingly male professions.
* There are zero women in all of ''VideoGame/FireWarrior'', which is somewhat justified by the setting being first a pair of warships and then a base being invaded by Chaos.
* There are no females in most of the ''VideoGame/CounterStrike'' games; not announcers or player models in the original and ''Source'', not [=NPCs=] or enemy {{mook}}s in ''Condition Zero''.
* The first couple ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpires'' games featured zero females other than one of the potential voiceless villager models. Justified as everyone else is a soldier of some kind.
* In ''VideoGame/CastleCrashers'', all playable characters and villains are male, this includes the [[RealMenWearPink Pink Knight]]. While there are princesses, [[SaveThePrincess their only purpose is to be saved]], there's no other interaction with them, and [[spoiler: one of them turns out to be [[WebAnimation/MadnessCombat Tricky the Clown]].]]
* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryReturns'' manages to be this as only five characters (Donkey, Diddy, Cranky, Rambi and Squawks) come from previous games and everyone else appears to be male or having unconfirmed genders.
** ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongLand'' had a total of five (non-mook) characters returning from ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'', all male, and all enemies are male or unconfirmed.
* Throughout the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' games, certain worlds will have a gender-uneven population. So far, two worlds ([[Film/{{Tron}} Space Paranoids]] and [[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} Symphony of Sorcery]]) have only male characters, while the [[CreepyDoll sole female]] in [[Franchise/ToyStory Toy Box]] is a boss.
* The first two ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' games never featured female characters, beyond occasional nameless civilians in the background and the chopper pilot Outlaw who lasted one mission.
* ''VideoGame/{{Outlast}}'' has absolutely no female characters in the game, but a couple are mentioned in the collectible documents scattered throughout the game. The Whistleblower DLC lampshades this with Edward Gluskin. He wants a bride, but there's only men to be found. He's not fussed, [[GroinAttack as he knows ways around that biological impossibility...]]
* In ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankSizeMatters'', the only female-looking character, [[TheDragon Luna]], is actually a genderless puppet and warship. The rest of the cast are male.
* ''VideoGame/SpaceRangers'', unless you count Makhpella, a HiveQueen of a race of non-organic crystal-based lifeforms. Other than that, every single pilot and government official (all of whom share a single model per race) are male. What's weird is that, according to lore, Pelengs can [[SexShifter change their sex at will]], while Faeyans are naturally {{hermaphrodit|e}}ic, but all of them are almost always treated as male. The second game allows the player to choose a female portrait, but it doesn't change the dialogue at all. The [[UpdatedReRelease HD Revolution]] version finally introduces female [=NPCs=] in the form of a separate NPC type, special agents. They, however, are all human, and women of other races remain unseen.
* Most classic ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' games were exclusively male, save for ''VideoGame/SonicSpinball'' (featuring Sally and Bunnie from ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM''), ''VideoGame/TailsSkyPatrol'' (which had a female villain), and the few featuring Amy. Two other female characters, Honey the Cat and Tiara Boobowski, were planned for ''VideoGame/SonicTheFighters'' and ''VideoGame/SonicXTreme'' respectively, but were both cancelled along with the latter game itself, as had been a formerly planned human girlfriend for Sonic back in game 1.
* All of the named characters in ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'' are male, much like the works the game took inspiration from (''Literature/HeartOfDarkness'' and ''Film/ApocalypseNow''; see above for more information). Most of them are members of the armed forces. Female civilians do pop up here and there, but they never really feature in the plot or receive names.
* The original ''VideoGame/{{Spyro the Dragon|1998}}'' features about 80 named, voiced characters, all male. There are female-looking enemies in a couple of stages, but they're not named. [[VideoGame/SpyroReignitedTrilogy The reimagining]] rectified this by giving the Save Fairies proper voice actresses.
* In ''VideoGame/{{STALKER}}'', you will never meet a female Stalker. Ever. That's not to say there ''are no'' female Stalkers, they get mentioned in dropped [=PDAs=] and conversations as {{Action Girl}}friends, but developer laziness means no female models. Of course mods exist for adding female Stalkers into the game.
* All the fighters in the original ''VideoGame/StreetFighterI'' are male.
* ''VideoGame/StyxMasterOfShadows'' has all different kinds of fantasy races, from goblins to humans to orcs to elves, and they are all male.
* Aside from the FeaturelessProtagonist PlayerCharacter who doesn't have a gender, the entire cast of ''VideoGame/ToukenRanbu'', even down to the voice actors.
* Every boxer in ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' is male. Female characters are extremely rare, and there is only one named female character[[note]]Don Flamenco's girlfriend Carmen[[/note]]. This is at least somewhat {{justified|trope}}, seeing as the series focuses on boxing, a male-dominated sport. The spinoff ''Arm Wrestling'' features a girl named Alice who is indirectly participating by controlling a robotic monkey called Ape III (the tournament is unisex; what prevents Alice from playing directly is her young age).
* Much like its spiritual predecessor, the original ''VideoGame/FatalFury'' features no female combatants.
* The original ''[[VideoGame/MegaManX1 Mega Man X]]'' features no female characters whatsoever.
* ''VideoGame/TheNeverhood'''s main cast is all-male. There are female characters mentioned in [[AllThereInTheManual The Hall of Records]], but The Hall of Records is worldbuilding that is mostly irrelevant to the game's plot.
* The original versions of ''[[VideoGame/SwordsAndSandals Swords and Sandals]]'' have all-male casts. Averted in ''[[UpdatedReRelease Redux]]'', which gives you the option to play as a female, and even if you don't, some of the opponents are female as well.
* The entire cast of ''VideoGame/GadgetPastAsFuture'' are men, even the FeaturelessProtagonist who is revealed to be named Louis Hausmann in the tie-in material. Averted in the spin-off novel ''The Third Force'' where the protagonist is Louis's sister, Elena Hausmann, and there are a few incidental female characters mentioned throughout; it also retroactively makes the extreme gender-imbalance of the games make more sense, as it is mentioned that the Empire's society is sexist towards women, not expecting them to become scientists or government employees, which the majority of ''Gadget's'' characters are.
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
* Prevalent in the early videos of ''[[WebAnimation/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers SMG4]]'': Bowser from the games is a rage-fuelled OneManArmy that even the Mario Bros. have trouble with. The Bowser in this series is easily pummeled and restrained and much more prone to collapsing into a sobbing heap when things go wrong.'', as the only female characters of importance were Peach and Toadette. Even episodes that featured them, especially the former, usually resulted in them being taken out early and the male cast taking the focus. That said, even with the new female characters, episodes focusing on the guys will still crop up from time-to-time.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* Every character of importance in ''Webcomic/WeakHero'' is male, and most of the supporting cast are too. One hundred chapters in and the amount of female characters can be counted on one hand- and of those, only one has had any relevance to the plot.
* {{Parodied}} by ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' [[https://xkcd.com/2609/ here]]. [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Treebeard explains to the Fellowship that there are no more Entwives]], then assumes because the Fellowship is a sausage party that the same is true of them. The comic is also potholed to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt2qCjL6-n4 a supercut]] of every scene in the film trilogy where two females interact. [[spoiler:All two seconds of it.]]
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* ''Literature/ThreeSevenTenverse'' had a few named female characters of low importance, but every main character is male.
* ''WebVideo/TheTimeGuys'' involves no female characters. This is partially due to them making a joke of their small cast by having one actor play ''every historical figure they meet''.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' is an edge case. All of the main characters are male, as are 99% of the side characters they interact with. ''Two'' of the incredibly few female characters are named (one is a porn actress playing herself and the other has a ridiculous stripper name, though others are sometimes named in the credits) and most don't live to see the end of their episode. It’s somewhat justified since the Aqua Teens are unemployed shut-ins and humans in general (aside from Carl) only rarely appear.
* Until Blackarachnia's introduction in the eighth episode of the series, all the ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' characters were male.
* ''WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines.'' With the exception of Muttley's girlfriend in his fantasy segments and the German farm maiden in "Barnstormers," not an XX chromosome in sight.
* The ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode "The Ricklantis Mixup" only includes Rick and Morty, and their various counterparts from alternate dimensions in the Citadel of Ricks.
* Most of the episodes from ''WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa'' feature only male characters, with Shenzi as the only female character to appear in more than one episode.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheTrapDoor'' has only male characters, which isn't surprising considering all voices in the show were performed by William Rushton. Well... ''that'', and the fact that there are very, very few characters that talk (the rest being some kind of EldritchAbomination).
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!!Female Only:

[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* The recurring cast of ''Manga/AsteroidInLove'', like most works published under the ''Magazine/MangaTimeKirara'' brand, is all-female despite the fact that this series is about astronomy and geology. It somehow avoided falling into ImprobablyFemaleCast, however, by making all professional scientists male, as the area is still mostly male.
* ''Anime/CandyBoy'' and ''Manga/{{Yuyushiki}}'' don't seem to have any male characters at all.
* In ''Manga/TheGirlIWantIsSoHandsome'', which focuses on a girls' basketball team at a high school (which is implied to be coed, as the {{Bifauxnen}} Shiki wears a male uniform's cardigan) has only female characters. [[TheGhost Shiki's older brother is mentioned in passing but never actually appears]].
* In ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'', there are only a handful of male characters. Shinzaburou (the Isuzu household servant) has very few lines, as does Yukari's father. The MEXT official who [[spoiler:announces Oarai's planed closure]] [[SmallRoleBigImpact has a significant impact but only appears in one scene in the original anime]].
* ''Gushing Over Magical Girls'' takes this to the extreme, as not only are all the major characters but all the teachers and students in Utena's school are female (excusable as potentially a OneGenderSchool), the only parents seen are moms, and every incidental background character is also female, with not a single male ever seen. Even Venalita, despite being referred to as male in English due to translator guessing based on early pronoun omission, [[ShesAManInJapan was eventually revealed to also be female]].
* ''Anime/HaitaiNanafa'': No male character, except for a couple in the background, and a passing ghost.
* ''Manga/HitoribocchiNoOOSeikatsu'' takes place at a coed middle school, but the only boys are background characters. Late in the manga, Bocchi befriends all the boys in her class as a result of befriending another of the girls.
* ''Anime/{{ICE|2007}}: The Last Generation'' takes place in a setting where all men died and remaining women fight over ideological differences (if they should or shouldn't bring men back) and an ICE (which is an only thing that can help them reproduce).
* Every named character in ''Manga/TheGreatJahyWillNotBeDefeated'' is female. The only male characters are a couple of cops that gave Jahy some trouble at the beginning, and a man that crossdresses as a magical girl that Jahy mistakes for the ''actual'' Magical Girl.
* ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia2013'''s original short film had no human male characters, unless you count extras in the prologue. {{Justified|Trope}} since after that scene the whole thing is set at an all-girl's WizardingSchool. {{Averted}} in the sequel, but even there only one male character is important enough to get a name. This is averted in the [[Anime/LittleWitchAcademia2017 TV series]], as there are multiple male characters seen, named, and mentioned.
* The ''Franchise/LoveLive'' franchise's recurring casts are entirely female; male characters typically only show up as background characters or with [[TheFaceless their faces obscured]] (and [[Anime/LoveLive Nico's little brother Cotaro]] is the only male character with any lines at all). To further drive it home, every school featured in the series is an [[OneGenderSchool all-girls school]].
* Like many series serialized in ''Magazine/MangaTimeKirara'', ''Manga/GourmetGirlGraffiti'''s cast of 8 are all female of different ages.
* ''Manga/StrikeWitches'': the only named characters shown are all female.
* In ''Manga/TheSummerYouWereThere'', the only male character is Kaori's father, who makes a few short appearances late in the series and is never named.
* In ''Manga/UraraMeirocho'', while the fact that the uraras are all women have internal justification, the fact that all the law enforcement in the town are women smacks of this trope.
* In ''Manga/YuriIsMyJob'', all the named characters are female. A handful of extras, like customers at the salon, teachers and students at the characters' school, and Mitsuki's father, are male.
* There's not a single named boy in ''Anime/YukiYunaIsAHero''. The only males that get a second of screentime are the Taisha (a group of masked priests who are only actually seen in one episode), the girls' fairies (only one of whom can actually speak, and there with [[OneWordVocabulary One Sentence Vocabulary]]) and a character's kid brother in the prequel.
* ''Manga/YuruYuri'' mainly takes place at an [[OneGenderSchool all-girls middle school]] and does not have a single male character in the anime adaptation, with the exception of several extras that have no spoken lines. Sometimes this goes to improbable levels, like when all the participants at [[FanConvention Comuket]] are female despite its RealLife counterpart, Comiket, having a mostly male audience. Ironically, had this been a 70s period piece, [[AccidentallyCorrectWriting this would actually have been pretty accurate]], as the attendance of the first Comiket in 1975 was 90% female, although there were still ''some'' men. Even now statistically most {{doujinshi}} authors are women, and usually one day of Comiket weekend is catered more to female otaku.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''Comicbook/SmallFavors'' takes this to its logical conclusion by not having ''any'' male characters at all, even in the background, and never getting around to establishing whether they even exist in the setting. Though they must have got the idea of strap-ons from ''somewhere''...
* ''ComicBook/WonderWomanAndTheStarRiders'': Every single character is female, heroes, villain or otherwise to the point that it's unclear whether or not there are any males in the setting.
* ''The Blonde'', a ClassyCatBurglar who stars in of series of erotic comics by Italian artist Franco Saudelli, seems to live in a world populated almost solely by women. At most, you might spot the occasional male background character, but any character with a speaking role is going to be female.
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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* All of the main characters in ''ComicStrip/MadamAndEve'' are female, with three adult women and an eight-year-old girl. Males are relegated to either supporting characters or RealLife political and celebrity figures. Technically, Gwen "Madam" Anderson has an adult son, but he hasn't appeared in the comic for over a decade.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/EightWomen'': As the title implies, it's all about eight women. There ''is'' one male actor in the film (who plays Marcel), but they make it a point not to show his face or give him lines and he only appears onscreen very sparsely and briefly.
* ''Film/CryHavoc'': There are a few scattered men in bit parts as wounded soldiers; a young Creator/RobertMitchum has one line. But 99% of the action and dialogue are focused on 13 female nurses at an Army combat hospital on Bataan during the battle against the Japanese in 1942.
* The only male character in ''Film/TheDescent'' is the protagonist's husband, who gets maybe one line of dialogue before being abruptly killed in the first five minutes of the film. [[spoiler:The Crawlers are sexually dimorphic, but they don't appear to be human, don't receive names, have no dialogue other than grunts and howls, and according to some interpretations of the film [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness don't really exist outside of the clearly disturbed protagonist's head]].]]
* ''Film/TheFieldGuideToEvil'': There are no male characters in the segment "The Sinful Women of Höllfall" (even the monster the Trud manifests in a female form). The setting seems to be an isolated all-female religious community, but the details are not made explicit.
* The French movie ''Film/{{Innocence}}'', directed by Lucile Hadzihalilovic, is set in a mysterious boarding school for girls, where the staff is all-female too. A few males appear briefly, but they have no speaking roles.
* All speaking roles in ''Film/Suspiria2018'' are played by women, including the one male character, Dr. Klemperer, who is played by Creator/TildaSwinton under heavy makeup.
* The 1939 version of ''Theatre/TheWomen'' went so far as to have all the '''animals''' seen on screen be female, as well as the entire cast. All the paintings are of women, too. The film's source play is also an example of the trope. The 2008 remake did the same, every character in the film is female including the extras, the main character's husband is mentioned but never seen or heard from, [[spoiler:and at the end of the film one of the characters gives birth to a boy]].
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/GodmotherNight'' by Rachel Pollack. The main characters are two women and their daughter, and the eponymous godmother is also female, of course.
* ''Literature/TheStarsAreLegion'', by Kameron Hurley. This novel is a forceful rebuttal to a male-dominated genre (Science fiction in this particular case), just as most of its author's works. The Legion, where the novel is set, is a collection of organic world-sized ships, each populated with an all-female clan that endlessly battles with the other ships' clans. This organic nature is key to both worldbuilding and plot, displaying an interesting approach to motherhood. The Legion literally rebuilds itself with parts birthed by its female occupants, who sometimes gestate replacement parts, and at other times, become pregnant with entire worlds. Life in the Legion is birth and rebirth, over and over.
* The world of Whileaway in Joanne Russ' novel ''The Female Man'', is all female, with [[{{Gendercide}} the men having been wiped out ages ago by a plague]][[note]] though there's a hint or two that it might instead be a result of the women winning a global war of the sexes[[/note]], and is unabashedly utopian.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/ClassOf07'': The setting is the reunion of the titular graduating class from an all-girls' school after a decade. Given this, all the main characters on the show and supporting characters too are women (girls in the flashbacks). Male characters only appear in the flashbacks [[spoiler:or briefly at the end]] during the first season.
* The ''Series/KnotsLanding'' episode "The Three Sisters", in which the women of Seaview Circle visit an allegedly haunted house, is the only episode not to feature any of the male regular characters. The only male character is an unnamed local who appears in one scene.
* The second season episode "Jessica Behind Bars" from ''Series/MurderSheWrote'' takes place during a lockdown at a women's prison. In addition to Jessica, the only characters are the prisoners, the staff, the warden, and the lieutenant governor - all portrayed by women.
* In the third season of the CW's ''Series/Supergirl2015'', there is an episode where Fort Rozz, a Kryptonian space prison is revolving around a blue sun. This sun destroys all "y" chromosomes so in order to go there and get information from a criminal still on it, Supergirl has to round up previous villains and side-kicks that are all female. There are side plots with male characters back home of course, but the main focus is the all female cast.
* Two episodes of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' feature all-female casts with the exception of a brief voice-over from a male actor: "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E15TheInvaders The Invaders]]" (in which Creator/AgnesMoorehead is the only actor seen on screen) and "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E19NightCall Night Call]]".
* The seventh season episode "[[Recap/TheWalkingDeadS07E06Swear Swear]]" of ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010'' is a Tara-centric BottleEpisode where she encounters an all-female group of survivors. The only male characters who appear in the episode are Heath, who has about five minutes of screen time before disappearing, and Eugene, who appears briefly near the end and has no dialogue.
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* Music/BubbleButt's music video consists entirely of women [[ThreeMinutesOfWrithing dancing and shaking their posteriors]] and there are no men in sight. This is in spite the fact that all the song's singers are male. However, given the song's [[StuffyOldSongsAboutTheButtocks subject matter,]] it makes a certain amount of sense.
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[[folder:Theater]]
* Creator/{{Euripides}}' play ''Theatre/TheTrojanWomen'' is about some of the royal women during and after the sacking of Troy.
* Creator/DavidMamet's play ''Theatre/BostonMarriage'', revolving around a lesbian romantic relationship. Mamet's impetus to write the play was criticism he had received that he was only able to write convincing male characters.
* Creator/FedericoGarciaLorca's ''Theatre/LaCasaDeBernardaAlba'', which is about a strict mother who keeps her five daughters at home.
* The one-act play ''Theatre/ChamberMusic'' by Arthur Kopit takes place in an insane asylum with eight women who think they are famous people from history. There is an unnamed male doctor.
* ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipsed_%28play%29 Eclipsed]]'' is notable not only for it's all-female cast of sex slaves and rebels in war-torn Liberia but also that it was written and directed by women, the first award-winning play to do so.
* The play ''Theatre/LastSummerAtBluefishCove'', by Jane Chambers, set in a lesbian beach resort area.
* The play ''SteelMagnolias'' by Robert Harling has six characters, all female. Several male characters are mentioned, but none appear onstage. The trope is averted in the [[Film/SteelMagnolias film adaptation]].
* The play ''Theatre/TopGirls'' by Caryl Churchill, which has a cast of 7-9 women; it's about women keeping each other down in the business world of 80s England.
* ''Theatre/{{Tsukiuta}} Girls' Side: Megasta'' features the members of Fluna and Seleas, IdolSinger units (who are actually moon goddesses). The stage original characters tend to all be female, though the second play featured cameo appearances from the male units' members.
* The play ''Theatre/UncommonWomenAndOthers'' by Wendy Wasserstein. About friendships in a women's college.
* ''Theatre/TheVaginaMonologues''. While over the years the episodes have been expanded to include trans experiences, for the longest time they were centered exclusively on cisgender women and even nowadays it's likelier the year's script's "non-cis episodes" to be about trans women than trans men.
* ''Theatre/YoRHa'': The conbat-oriented models of the titular androids are female. Male [=YoRHa=] wouldn't be seen in the plays until the third installment, which is covered in the "Male Only" section. From that point on, the subsequent plays averted this by introducing a mix of both male and female characters.
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[[folder:Toys]]
* The first two waves of ''Toys/{{Lalaloopsy}}'' dolls were all female. The overall toyline averted this in Wave 3, with the introduction of Patch Treasurechest, the first male Lala, but afterwards, many subsequent waves are all female.
* ''Toys/MyLittlePony'': Every single pony in G3 is entirely female, with the only male character being Spike the dragon. All other generations feature male and female ponies.
* ''Toys/NoviStars'': All of the dolls are female. The only male character in sight is Derek, who is exclusive to the webshow, and [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen we don't even see his face]]! The possibility of male characters joining the roster was discussed in a comment section on the official Novi Stars Facebook page once upon a time, but this turned out fruitless because of the doll line's sudden cancellation.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* The ''VideoGame/ArcanaHeart'' fighting game series is proudly composed of an all-female roster.
* ''VideoGame/CuteBite'': There's teachers for 12 classes, about 9 Hunting targets, and about 15 attendees to be interacted at, in Balls. All are female. The only male is the Old Master, who [[spoiler:presumably]] died before the gameplay starts.
* The cast of ''VisualNovel/HeartOfTheWoods'' is entirely female, save for one old man who Madison and Tara briefly speak with while interviewing residents of Eysenfeld. He's so minor that he doesn't have a name or a sprite, and could have been removed without any noticeable impact on the story.
* In ''VideoGame/LuxarenAllure'', all four heroes, and the villain, are female.
* Platform/PlayStation2 RPG ''VideoGame/NugaCel'' informs you outright at the start that absolutely no men will be appearing in the game, not even as [=NPCs=]. The (male) narrator who informs you of this is fired on the spot, never to be seen again. Although the player character is male, he is never seen or heard, unless [[spoiler:you get a particular ending where he becomes the final boss.]]
* ''VideoGame/Portal1'' really only has Chell and [=GLaDOS=]; the Rat Man's existence is implied (and nothing implies it must be a man in-game) and one of [=GLaDOS=]'s cores seen for about a minute has a male voice, but other voiced supporting "characters" like the turrets and Curiosity Core are "female" as well.
* ''VideoGame/RabiRibi'' has exactly one male character with a name, and his role is so minor that he doesn't even get a character portrait. Additionally, only one small area contains male [=NPCs=], and only one character mentions her father at any point in the game's story.
* Microprose's ''VideoGame/RexNebularAndTheCosmicGenderBender'' features a planet filled with militaristic women. It's only later in the game that you learn that there was a war involving the two sexes, the end result being the women wiped out all the men via biological warfare. Not only did women have to reproduce by using the aforementioned GenderBender to temporarily change their genitalia, the virus used had an unintended side-effect of making the women incapable of having male babies ever again.
* ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'' started out with an all-female roster, though eventually Big Band and Beowulf were added to the roster, with the possibility of more male characters making it in in the future.
* The vast majority of ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' media contains entirely female casts - when men ''are'' involved, they are either [[NoNameGiven nameless]] {{One Shot Character}}s or [[TheGhost never appear on-screen]]. For context, the most prominent exceptions are Rinnosuke from ''Literature/CuriositiesOfLotusAsia'' (a NonActionGuy who rarely leaves his shop) and Unzan from ''VideoGame/TouhouSeirensenUndefinedFantasticObject'' (the non-speaking GuardianEntity of another character). [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness In the PC-98 games]] the role of TheOneGuy was instead filled by Genji, a talking turtle.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* Occasionally, a man (like on the girls' fathers) might be mentioned, but every single character we actually see or hear in ''Webcomic/LadiesInWaiting'' is a little girl.
* ''Webcomic/WomanWorld'' is set in a world where [[{{Gendercide}} men have gone extinct]], and therefore has an all-female cast.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* Most of Creator/DinaMNealey's work, particularly her erotic drawings and comics, tends to be dominated by female characters. The occasional male character might appear, but they're usually the result of commissions or crossovers with other online creators.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* The whole pony race in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyG3'' is completely female, with not a single Y chromosome in sight, thus the cast is made up of majorly female actors, save for the one male character Spike.
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