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* In ''Literature/TheSerpentsSecret'' Kiran, Neel, and Kiran's parents are chased by a hungry newborn rakkhosh, who is revealed to be a girl. [[spoiler:She's also Neel's new half-sister because Neel's rakkhosh mother adopted her.]]

* In ''Literature/TheSerpent'sSecret'' Kiran, Neel, and Kiran's parents are chased by a hungry newborn rakkhosh, who is revealed to be a girl. [[spoiler:She's also Neel's new half-sister because Neel's rakkhosh mother adopted her.]]

* ''Literature/TheWayOfKings'' (first book of ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive''): Dalinar Kholin realizes about halfway though the book that the [[HumanoidAliens Parshendi]] send their "femalen" into battle alongside the males. Note that for Alethi like Dalinar, a woman fighting is about as scandalous as that same woman having sex in public. With someone she's not married to.

* [[WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends Happy Tree Friends]] has an episode named "Cubtron Z" that introduces a {{Kaiju}} fish-like monster. You'd at first think the monster was a male as it has a male voice but at the end of the episode, the monster is revealed to act like a female showing to wear eyelashes and an apron.

* [[WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends Happy Tree Friends]] has an episode named "Cubtron Z" that introduces a {{Kaiju}} fish-like monster. You would at first think the monster was a male as it has a male voice but at the end of the episode, the monster is revealed to be female showing to wear eyelashes and an apron (although it could have just been doing that for fun).

* [[WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends Happy Tree Friends]] has an episode named "Cubtron Z" that introduces a {{Kaiju}} fish-like monster. You would at first think the monster was male as it roars in a male voice but at the end of the episode, the monster is revealed to be female showing to wear eyelashes and an apron (although it could have just been doing that for fun).

* [[WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends]] has an episode named "Cubtron Z" that introduces a {{Kaiju}} fish-like monster. You would at first think the monster was male as it roars in a male voice but at the end of the episode, the monster is revealed to be female showing to wear eyelashes and an apron (although it could have just been doing that for fun).

* One 2E supplement about the ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}}'' D&D setting has a section on [[OurMinotaursAreDifferent minotaur society]], complete with an in-character narrator who'd been captured by sea-going minotaurs. When this character asks the ship's captain about minotaur family life, the captain gruffly points out that the husky, wide-horned first mate who's been holding the narrator's hands behind his back throughout their conversation is, in fact, his wife. This was in sharp contrast to the few pieces of artwork depicting minotaur females, which tended to be [[BoobsOfSteel unsubtle]] about things.

* Inverted in ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'': a female-looking firebreather is revealed to be a [[{{Pun}} "drag"-on]] despite TertiarySexualCharacteristics, when Gourry gets a good glimpse of the underside.

[[caption-width-right:350:"And you know what else? You know what else, you're... you're a girl dragon! Oh, sure, I mean, of COURSE you're a girl dragon!"]]

* Everyone assumes that Kevin is a boy bird in ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}''. Not unjustifiably -- with many bird species the colorfully-feathered one ''is'' the male. (Peacocks are the classic example.) Kevin's plumage is modeled on a (sadly recently deceased) male [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalayan_Monal Himalayan monal]] from the Sacramento Zoo. Kevin could still be male, even if he's raising babies, as there are several species of bird where the male does the childrearing.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', Donkey is confronted by a dragon on a collapsing walkway and attempts to smooth-talk his way out, before realizing that the dragon is female, and she thinks that he's hitting on her. [[InterspeciesRomance He goes with it]].