History Main / AmbiguousGender

** To make it even more confusing, her [[spoiler:human self]] was a Bifauxnen, so most people thought she was a boy.

* The Wayward Vagabond from {{Homestuck}} still has yet to give any indication as to his or her gender. This has led to some rather interesting fanart. The general opinion is that WV is male, although a fair amount think that WV is female or are unsure.
** Then again, the character in question is so mysterious to begin with that it's often argued what species he/she/it is. The only commonly agreed fact about the character is that [[MemeticMutation WV has white nipples.]]
** The same dilemma applies to the Peregrine mendicant.
*** PM has been confirmed as female, by being shown with clothing that implies breasts as well as being addressed as female in a note from another character. However, there is now also an ambiguously gendered Aimless Renegade as well...
**** WV and AR are both male.

* The gender of secondary character Merideth in Vonda N. McIntyre's ''Dreamsnake'' is [[GenderNeutralWriting left entirely up to reader discretion]]. (Quite tellingly, when asked who would play the character in a film adaptation, McIntyre mentioned both [[DudeLooksLikeALady Jaye Davidson]] and [[{{Bifauxnen}} Tilda Swinton]] as possibilities.)

* Flaky the porcupine from ''HappyTreeFriends''. It's a long-standing, and still present debate due to her ambiguous appearance (unlike the other female Tree Friends, she lacks TertiarySexualCharacteristics). Although WordOfGod says that Flaky's a female, there is still reason to believe otherwise.

* Pwt in ''Muse'' magazine. The subject is one of constant argument on the Muse Mail page.

* Taking cues from ''OrderOfTheStick'', elves from [[Webcomic/MurphysLaw Murphy's Law]] have elves with lowered sexual characteristics.

* Yubel (formerly pictured above) in ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh GX}}''. No body except a demonic arm, uses 'boku' and initially primarily a female voice. Then, Yubel starts shifting from a female to a male voice and back, and also mixes that in with the voice of the host's. Characters also refer to him/her as, well, him and her. The answer, of course, is that Yubel is a hermaphrodite human/spirit fusion... thing.

* The 7-Tailed Beatle's host in ''{{Naruto}}''. Even the creator isn't sure, although he's leaning towards female at this point. S/he's dead anyway, so it's only supplementary.

* Taking cues from ''OrderOfTheStick'', elves from [[Webcomic/MurphysLaw]] have elves with lowered sexual characteristics.

** According to the french translation, it's [[spoiler:a girl]]
** The German translation opts to make it a [[spoiler:boy]]

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* The play Sylvia, by A.R. Gurney has a character named Leslie, a person of indeterminate gender, that asks the other characters to assign gender roles to him/her when they first meet.
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** The mystery was actually "solved" in a really round-about way. Fans debated endlessly about whether Pat was a man or a woman -- and the writers never planned on revealing the character's true sex -- until one particular sketch towards the end of Pat's run. The actress playing the character, Julia Sweeney, had been super careful throughout the series to never act in a gendered manner, but when Pat was to be kissed by another character, Sweeney instintively titled her head back ever so slightly the way a woman would. When fans brought this to her attention, Sweeney said that her little goof confirmed Pat was a woman and that it was now canon.

* Taking cues from ''OrderOfTheStick'', elves from Webcomic/Murphy's Law have elves with lowered sexual characteristics.

* Taking cues from ''OrderOfTheStick'', elves from [[Webcomic/Murphy's Law]] have elves with lowered sexual characteristics.

* Taking cues from ''OrderOfTheStick'', elves from [[Webcomic/ptitletswco1hy Murphy's Law]] have elves with lowered sexual characteristics.

*In an episode of LloydinSpace, the characters spend an episode trying to figure out the gender of a new kid named Zoit. When asked about it at the end of the episode, Zoit reveals that [[spoiler:members of its (alien) species have no gender until they turn thirteen, at which point they have to decide to be male or female. Zoit chooses a gender, but we're never told which. ]]

* Roger from ''AmericanDad'' is apparently able to produce an egg and transmit it through 'kissing' someone, but other than this, he acts mostly male (although not very masculine). Since he's an alien, though, he most likely isn't really male or female.

*** Some of the anime examples can even be frustrating, as Pokemon are ''telepathic''. Even if the voice is clearly male, the characters will insist on saying "It".