History Main / FemaleMonsterSurprise

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

!!Examples!

* A chapter of ''Manga/{{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.]] '''TWICE'''

* 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.]]

* In ''Film/{{Godzilla 1998}}'', Nick is shocked when a pregnancy test [[ArtisticLicenseBiology for humans]] reveals that the giant lizard destroying New York is pregnant. It's subverted in that everyone still refers to Zilla as a "he" due to it being capable of asexual reproduction.

* A particularly horrifying example of this trope occurs in the ''Series/NightGallery'' episode "The Caterpillar". A man pays to have a romantic rival murdered by having a carnivorous earwig placed in the man's ear. The plan goes wrong, however, and the next morning he awakens to find that [[LaserGuidedKarma the earwig has been placed in his ear instead, and has crawled inside his head.]] [[FateWorseThanDeath He endures weeks of agony as the earwig eats its way through his brain]], but he remarkably survives the ordeal. He is then told by a doctor that the earwig was female... [[spoiler: And it laid eggs.]]

* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'': Upon encountering Nessie the [[StockNessMonster Loch Ness Monster]], Bob says he thinks she's a girl monster, because [[SecondarySexualCharacteristics she has eyelashes.]] Molly, being a monster herself, confirms that only girl monsters have eyelashes.

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

* One 2E supplement about the ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}}'' D&D setting has a section on 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, in of itself, is a reference to the Hungarian Dub of ''Z'', which made Dodoria a woman for some odd reason.

* The hulking, muscle-bound Butcher enemies from ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' are in fact female. While held captive in their lair, Laurentius comments that "She'll have me for lunch!".

* You know the Level 300-ish dragon that hangs around [[VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness Laharl's throne room]] and [[spoiler: helps save your ass once]]? She'll have you know that she's one of the more attractive of her lot. ''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.

See also SamusIsAGirl, MonsterIsAMommy and YourTomcatIsPregnant.

--> '''Vegeta''': "Any last words before I kill you?"
--> '''Dodoria''': "I have a [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Thick. Meaty. Vagina!]]"
--> '''Vegata''': (blows Dodoria to shreds; then starts vomiting)

-->'''Steve:''' What are you, shy? Sasquatch doesn't have anything you haven't seen before.\\
'''Brock:''' Sasquatch ''is'' something I haven't seen before!

-->'''Alien:''' What have you done to Mother?

* In ''Franchise/StarWars'', if the [[VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed video game]] is to be believed, the Rancor Luke fights in episode 6 is a female as well, as in the video game you fight a "Rancor Bull", which looks the same, only it has horns.

* A chapter of ''Manga/{{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.]] '''[[BrainBleach TWICE]]'''

--> '''Vegata''': (blows Dodria to shreds; then starts vomiting)

* In ''VideoGame/DuckTales Remastered'', [[spoiler: the Yeti boss of the Himalayas is shown to be a female.]]

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

* ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'': It does not happen InUniverse, but the OCG released human version of the Four Heavenly Dragons, revealing that Clear Wing Synchro Dragon is actually female.

* ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'': It does happen InUniverse, but the OCG released human version of the Four Heavenly Dragons, revealing that Clear Wing Synchro Dragon is actually female.

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

!!Examples

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* 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. A chapter of ''Manga/{{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.]] '''[[BrainBleach TWICE]]'''
* Combined with SamusIsAGirl in ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'': unlike most examples the BountyHunter with the naughty tentacles actually ''was'' a CuteMonsterGirl, and it turned out the tentacles and stocky build were from a set of PoweredArmor she wore.

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* In ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'s Plunder Island Arc, Wimpy is at one point dragged off of Popeye's ship and onto the Sea Hag by the monstrous Goon. Soaked from being in the ocean, Wimpy decides to take off his clothes while being held captive with the Goon watching him. Just as he's about to strip naked, a voice comes through the door, saying, "Keep a close eye on him, Alice." Wimpy quickly realizes who 'Alice' is, and quickly re-clothes himself, saying, "I didn't know there was a female present."

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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.]]
* 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.
* [[StrangeMagic Thang]] and the audience are both surprised to learn that his [[ThoseTwoGuys fellow goblin]] Stuff is female. She thought it was obvious.

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* In ''Franchise/StarWars'', if the [[VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed video game]] is to be believed, the Rancor Luke fights in episode 6 is a female as well, as in the video game you fight a "Rancor Bull," which looks the same, only it has horns.
* In ''Film/{{Godzilla 1998}}'', Nick is shocked when a pregnancy test [[ArtisticLicenseBiology for humans]] reveals that the giant lizard destroying New York is pregnant. It's subverted in that everyone still refers to Zilla as a "he" due to it being capable of asexual reproduction.

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* In ''[[Literature/InheritanceCycle Eragon]]'', Eragon comes with a long list of names to suggest for his newfound dragon to call her. He lists quite a few, before figuring out that the dragon is female, and he'd only suggested male names thus far. Another instance is seen in ''Brisingr'' with [[spoiler: the Ra'zac.]] One is revealed to be female, while the gender of the other is left ambiguous.
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''
** In ''Discworld/GuardsGuards'', the dragon tormenting the city is revealed at the last minute to be female, to the surprise of the city watch.
** "Chelonauts" in ''Discworld/TheLightFantastic'' are trying to go over the edge to determine the sex of Great A'Tuin, the turtle the Discworld travels on. Their mission is largely unsuccessful, but at the end of the book, the strange lights wizards have been seeing in the sky turn out to be Great A'Tuin's eggs, and hatch.
* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'', Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback is in the last novel revealed to be a Norberta, to Hagrid's bafflement. According to Charlie, the easiest way to tell this is that female dragons are even more vicious. Slytherin's Basilisk is also female, since it doesn't have a scarlet plume in its head like male basilisks do.
* The title character in ''Literature/{{IT}}'' [[spoiler: is protecting Its eggs, which will assumedly hatch into MindScrew monsters just like her.]]
* Happens in ''{{Literature/Animorphs}}'' with the first free Hork-Bajir. "You mean there's such a thing as a female Hork-Bajir?"
* In the short story [[Literature/VorkosiganSaga 'Labyrinth']] Admiral Miles Naismith accepts the job of putting down a defector's SuperSoldier experiment, bungles the infiltration of his old lab badly enough for the guards to cast him into a basement to be devoured by said experiment, and... discovers a lonely teenaged girl.
* ''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 [[TheKingdom 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.

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* In ''Series/{{Reaper}}'' Nina starts giving Ben some compliments that perturb him coming from her rather masculine seeming demonic form. They later start dating, though mostly in her human form.
* Lorne's mother in ''Series/{{Angel}}'' was played by an extremely muscular, bearded man. Angel is comically baffled when Lorne goes, "Hi, Mom".
* The Horta in the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E25TheDevilInTheDark 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 her eggs.
* A particularly horrifying example of this trope occurs in the ''Series/NightGallery'' episode "The Caterpillar". A man pays to have a romantic rival murdered by having a carnivorous earwig placed in the man's ear. The plan goes wrong, however, and the next morning he awakens to find that [[LaserGuidedKarma the earwig has been placed in his ear instead, and has crawled inside his head.]] [[FateWorseThanDeath He endures weeks of agony as the earwig eats its way through his brain]], but he remarkably survives the ordeal. He is then told by a doctor that the earwig was female... [[spoiler: And it laid eggs.]]

[[folder: Tabletop Games ]]

* One 2E supplement about the ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}}'' D&D setting had a section on 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.

[[folder: Video Games ]]

* ''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.

[[folder: Web Comics ]]

* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob''-- Upon encountering Nessie the [[StockNessMonster Loch Ness Monster]], Bob says he thinks she's a girl monster, because [[SecondarySexualCharacteristics she has eyelashes.]] Molly, being a monster herself, confirms that only girl monsters have eyelashes.
* In ''{{Rhapsodies}}'' Hilda and the rest of the [[TheKrampus Krampusi]] [[http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/comic/12112011/ who show up in the Christmas episodes.]]
* In ''{{Webcomic/Sinfest}}'', it's Christmas Eve, and Sleaze (demon anti-Slick) [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-12-24 wishes for "Hot Bitches"]]. Cerberus, TheDevil's three-headed dog, appears at the door.

[[folder: Web Original ]]

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

[[folder: Western Animation ]]

* Subverted/Inverted with Bigfoot in ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' who [[Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan 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's actually male.
--> '''Steve''': What are you, shy? Sasquatch doesn't have anything you haven't seen before.
--> '''Brock''': Sasquatch ''is'' something I haven't seen before!

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-->'''Alien:''' What have you done to Mother?

* Dalinar Kholin realizes about halfway though ''Literature/TheWayOfKings'' that the [[HumanoidAliens Parshendi]] send their "femalen" into battle alongside the males. Note that for [[TheKingdom 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.

* In ''{{Webcomic/Sinfest}}'', it's Christmas Eve, and Sleaze (demon anti-Slick) [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-12-24 wishes for "Hot Bitches"]]. Cerberus, TheDevil's three-headed dog appears at the door.

* In ''{{webcomic/Sinfest}}'', it's Christmas Eve, and Sleaze (demon anti-Slick) [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-12-24 wishes for "Hot Bitches"]]. Cerberus, TheDevil's three-headed dog appears at the door.

->''"You're a... '''girl''' dragon?"''
-->-- '''Donkey''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}''

-->--'''Donkey''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}''

-->'''Alien:''' What have you done to Mother?

* Thang and the audience are both surprised to learn that his [[ThoseTwoGuys fellow goblin]] Stuff is female. She thought it was obvious.