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* Lorne's mother in {{Angel}} was played by an extremely muscular, bearded man. Angel is comically baffled when Lorne goes, "Hi, Mom".

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* Lorne's mother in {{Angel}} ''Series/{{Angel}}'' was played by an extremely muscular, bearded man. Angel is comically baffled when Lorne goes, "Hi, Mom".
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* ''{{Psychonauts}}'' - Raz discovers that the lungfish residing at the bottom of the lake is actually "Linda". Although with the deep, booming voice, the audience can be forgiven for its assumption.

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* ''{{Psychonauts}}'' ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' - Raz discovers that the lungfish residing at the bottom of the lake is actually "Linda". Although with the deep, booming voice, the audience can be forgiven for its assumption.



* {{The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy}}: The show itself seems to have a hard time concluding whether Jeff is a male giant spider or a female giant spider as he has been shown to lay thousands of eggs in two episodes but has a masculine voice and married the Spider Queen Velma Green. {{Lampshade}}ed by Billy.

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* {{The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy}}: The show itself seems to have a hard time concluding whether Jeff is a male giant spider or a female giant spider as he has been shown to lay thousands of eggs in two episodes but has a masculine voice and married the Spider Queen Velma Green. {{Lampshade}}ed by Billy.
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** A recent chapter of ''{{Naruto}}'' did pretty much the same thing with a giant armadillo whose gender Naruto and Killer Bee argued about trying to discover, except that [[{{Squick}} we ALL got a good look at its underside.]]

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** A recent chapter of ''{{Naruto}}'' did pretty much the same thing with a giant armadillo whose gender Naruto and Killer Bee argued about trying to discover, except that [[{{Squick}} we ALL got a good look at its underside.]]
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* {{The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy}}: The show itself seems to have a hard time concluding whether Jeff is a male giant spider or a female giant spider as he has been shown to lay thousands of eggs in two episodes but has a masculine voice and married the Spider Queen Velma Green. {{Lampshade}}ed by Billy.
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* happens in ''{{Literature/Animorphs}} with the first free Hork-Bajir. "you mean there's such a thing as a female Hork-Bajir?"
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* In ''[[Discworld/GuardsGuards Guards! Guards!]]'', the dragon tormenting the city is revealed at the last minute being female, to the surprise of the city watch.

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* In ''[[Discworld/GuardsGuards Guards! Guards!]]'', the dragon tormenting the city is revealed at the last minute being to be female, to the surprise of the city watch.
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* Shale the golem in ''DragonAge: Origins''. Technically genderless in its current form, but it used to be a female dwarf.

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* Shale [[spoiler:Shale the golem golem]] in ''DragonAge: Origins''. Technically genderless in its current form, but it used to be a female dwarf.
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* The dragon Hooktail in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor''. Despite the character being the first major boss of the story, you don't learn this until towards the end of the game.

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* The dragon Hooktail in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor''.''[[VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]''. Despite the character being the first major boss of the story, you don't learn this until towards the end of the game.
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** 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.
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* The dragon Hooktail in ''[[{{Ptitlet2lo201q}} Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door]]''. Despite the character being the first major boss of the story, you don't learn this until towards the end of the game.

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* The dragon Hooktail in ''[[{{Ptitlet2lo201q}} Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door]]''.''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor''. Despite the character being the first major boss of the story, you don't learn this until towards the end of the game.
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** ''Dark Hero Days'' features a lesser surprise in the form of Actress, a female Entei. It would've been more surprising if not for the fact that you can hear her obviously female voice in the battle that occurs prior to someone bringing up her gender.
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* Cammie in ''TheMisadventuresOfFlapjack''.

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* Cammie in ''TheMisadventuresOfFlapjack''.
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* In ''HarryPotter'', Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback is in the last novel revealed to be a Norberta, to Hagrid's bafflement.

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* In ''HarryPotter'', Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback is in the last novel revealed to be a Norberta, to Hagrid's bafflement. According to Bill, the easiest way to tell this is that female dragons are even more vicious.
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* The Horta in the ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "The Devil in the Dark" turns out to be female...and the "silicon nodules" that miners on its planet are destroying turn out to be its eggs.

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* The Horta in the ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "The Devil in the Dark" turns out to be female...and the "silicon nodules" that miners on its planet are destroying turn out to be its her eggs.
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* The Horta in the ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "The Devil in the Dark" turns out to be female...and the "silicon nodules" that miners on its planet are destroying turn out to be its eggs.
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* The dragon Hooktail in ''PaperMario''. Despite the character being the first major boss of the story, you don't learn this until towards the end of the game.

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* The dragon Hooktail in ''PaperMario''.''[[{{Ptitlet2lo201q}} Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door]]''. Despite the character being the first major boss of the story, you don't learn this until towards the end of the game.

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* [[spoiler:DODORIA]] in ''DragonBallAbridged''. [[spoiler: Vegeta is so disgusted he vaporizes her just to repress the memory (her [[WeCanRuleTogether proposal]] didn't help).]]

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* [[spoiler:DODORIA]] [[spoiler:Dodoria]] in ''DragonBallAbridged''. [[spoiler: Vegeta is so disgusted he vaporizes her just to repress the memory (her [[WeCanRuleTogether proposal]] didn't help).]]



* Subverted/Inverted with Bigfoot in ''TheVentureBrothers'' who [[TheSixMillionDollarMan Steve Austin]] [[InterspeciesRomance was in love with.]] After Brock shaves Bigfoot for the sake of a disguise, he reveals to the audience that he actually ''is'' male.

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* Subverted/Inverted with Bigfoot in ''TheVentureBrothers'' who [[TheSixMillionDollarMan Steve Austin]] Steve]] [[strike:Austin]] [[CaptainErsatz Summers]] [[InterspeciesRomance was in love with.]] After Brock shaves Bigfoot for the sake of a disguise, he reveals to the audience that he he's actually male.
--> '''Steve''': What are you, shy? Sasquatch doesn't have anything you haven't seen before.
--> '''Brock''': Sasquatch
''is'' male.something I haven't seen before!
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* [[spoiler: DODORIA]] in DragonBallAbridged. [[spoiler: Vegeta is so squicked he vaporises her just to repress the memory (her [[WeCanRuleTogether proposal]] didn't help).]]

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* [[spoiler: DODORIA]] [[spoiler:DODORIA]] in DragonBallAbridged. ''DragonBallAbridged''. [[spoiler: Vegeta is so squicked disgusted he vaporises vaporizes her just to repress the memory (her [[WeCanRuleTogether proposal]] didn't help).]]



* Subverted with Bigfoot in ''TheVentureBrothers''.

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* Subverted Subverted/Inverted with Bigfoot in ''TheVentureBrothers''.''TheVentureBrothers'' who [[TheSixMillionDollarMan Steve Austin]] [[InterspeciesRomance was in love with.]] After Brock shaves Bigfoot for the sake of a disguise, he reveals to the audience that he actually ''is'' male.
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* DragonballZ's Freiza is not actually an example of this trope, but lord help us, anyone who watched the English dubs couldn't help but wonder. Especially seeing as how he's voiced by a woman in both dubs, one of whom played Airrazor in BeastWars.

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** A recent chapter of ''{{Naruto}}'' did pretty much the same thing with a giant armadillo whose gender Naruto and Killer Bee argued about trying to discover, except that [[{{Squick}} we ALL got a good look at its underside.]]
* DragonballZ's Freiza is not Combined with SamusIsAGirl in ''MahouSenseiNegima'': unlike most examples the BountyHunter with the NaughtyTentacles actually an example of this trope, but lord help us, anyone who watched ''was'' a CuteMonsterGirl, and it turned out the English dubs couldn't help but wonder. Especially seeing as how he's voiced by tentacles and stocky build were from a woman in both dubs, one set of whom played Airrazor in BeastWars.
PoweredArmor she wore.
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Ahh! A monster! A [[Squick squicky]] mess of [[CombatTentacles tentacles]] and [[ExtraEyes seventeen eyes]], a-and [[FangsAreEvil hideous teeth]] a-and his breath smells like sulfur and '''he opens his mouth!''' He's about to speak! He says:

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Ahh! A monster! A [[Squick [[{{Squick}} squicky]] mess of [[CombatTentacles tentacles]] and [[ExtraEyes seventeen eyes]], a-and [[FangsAreEvil hideous teeth]] a-and his breath smells like sulfur and '''he opens his mouth!''' He's about to speak! He says:
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Ahh! A monster! A squicky mess of tentacles and [[ExtraEyes seventeen eyes]], a-and [[FangsAreEvil hideous teeth]] a-and his breath smells like sulfur and '''he opens his mouth!''' He's about to speak! He says:

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Ahh! A monster! A squicky [[Squick squicky]] mess of tentacles [[CombatTentacles tentacles]] and [[ExtraEyes seventeen eyes]], a-and [[FangsAreEvil hideous teeth]] a-and his breath smells like sulfur and '''he opens his mouth!''' He's about to speak! He says:
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* The title character in ''{{IT}}'' [[spoiler: is protecting Its eggs, which will assumedly hatch into MindScrew monsters just like her. Although, it is very questionable if It is really is a female or any gender at all, with It being an otherworldly EldritchAbomination, earthly concepts such as gender, might not apply to It.]]

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* The title character in ''{{IT}}'' [[spoiler: is protecting Its eggs, which will assumedly hatch into MindScrew monsters just like her. Although, it is very questionable if It is really is a female or any gender at all, with It being an otherworldly EldritchAbomination, earthly concepts such as gender, might not apply to It.]]
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* The title character in ''{{IT}}'' [[spoiler: is protecting Its eggs, which will assumedly hatch into MindScrew monsters just like her.]]

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* The title character in ''{{IT}}'' [[spoiler: is protecting Its eggs, which will assumedly hatch into MindScrew monsters just like her. Although, it is very questionable if It is really is a female or any gender at all, with It being an otherworldly EldritchAbomination, earthly concepts such as gender, might not apply to It.]]
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* The title character in ''{{IT}}'' [[spoiler: is protecting Its eggs, which will assumedly hatch into MindFuck monsters just like her.]]

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* The title character in ''{{IT}}'' [[spoiler: is protecting Its eggs, which will assumedly hatch into MindFuck MindScrew monsters just like her.]]
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* The title character in ''{{IT}}'' [[spoiler: is pregnant.]]

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* The title character in ''{{IT}}'' [[spoiler: is pregnant.protecting Its eggs, which will assumedly hatch into MindFuck monsters just like her.]]
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* The title character in ''{{IT}}'' [[spoiler: is pregnant.]]
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* DragonballZ's Freiza is not actually an example of this trope, but lord help us, anyone who watched the English dubs couldn't help but wonder. Especially seeing as how he's voiced by a woman in both dubs, one of whom played Airrazor in BeastWars.
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* Lorne's mother in {{Angel}} was played by an extremely muscular, bearded man. Angel is comically baffled when Lorne goes, "Hi, Mom".
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* [[spoiler: DODORIA]] in DragonBallAbridged. [[spoiler: Vegeta is so squicked he vaporises her just to repress the memory (her [[WeCanRuleTogether proposal]] didn't help).]]
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* {{Psychonauts}} - Raz discovers that the lungfish residing at the bottom of the lake is actually "Linda". Although with the deep, booming voice, the audience can be forgiven for its assumption.
* Shale the golem in DragonAge: Origins. Technically genderless in its current form, but it used to be a female dwarf.

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* {{Psychonauts}} ''{{Psychonauts}}'' - Raz discovers that the lungfish residing at the bottom of the lake is actually "Linda". Although with the deep, booming voice, the audience can be forgiven for its assumption.
* Shale the golem in DragonAge: Origins.''DragonAge: Origins''. Technically genderless in its current form, but it used to be a female dwarf.

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