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Author: darkclaw

May 4th 2012 at 11:04:44 AM

I agree with the above. Any character regardless of their gender, probably has masculine and feminine traits. A character needs both for the audience to enjoy them. For example, a heroic ActionGirl can kick lots of ass and know how to fight (things often considered "masculine") but she still needs to show she's a hero, so she helps people and is kind to others (helping and kindness are often considered "feminine"). Even if the gender is changed, it is still the same. In general, people (and therefore characters) have traits of both "masculine" and "feminine". In the above post, many female characters are shown to fit this.

You could easily also make a "Sensitive Manly Man"; but almost any male character would fit that from {{Batman}} helping kids and beating up criminals to [[CodeGeass Lelouch]] being a {{bishonen}} {{badass}} who is ambitious and manipulative.

To summarize, if this trope was made, it would be filled with almost every female character except for FlatCharacter types who are specifically designed to be only feminine. It would be similar for the gender inversion.

Maybe this could be an example-less page to point out that female characters usually have masculine and feminine traits.