History Main / ViewerGenderConfusion

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' dwarfs. Most of them look male, but that doesn't mean they are.
** This is expanded upon with Cherri Littlebottom, a feminist in a race where discovering the other's gender is part of the mating ritual. She would wear makeup, but refused to shave her beard because to do so would deny being a dwarf.
** Never really resolved in ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'' with Madame Sharn. She claims female terminology but never really a female identity, and her lover is a gay male (biologically human) dwarf. Thanks to the weird interactions between dwarf and human ideas of sexuality she could equally be male, female, transgender, or not fit cisgender terminology at all.

* In ''Animation/The AdventuresOfLittleCarp'' Aoqi the seahorse often gets mistaken as a female due to his pink coloring and feminine poses. In addition Bubbles, the main character, also often gets confused to be female due to the constant comparison to him and his grandmother. They are even [[CrossDressingVoices voiced by women]] in the original but some languages actually have them being [[VocalDissonance voiced by full-grown men]].

* In The Adventures of Little Carp Aoqi the seahorse often gets mistaken as a female due to his pink coloring and feminine poses. In addition Bubbles, the main character, also often gets confused to be female due to the constant comparison to him and his grandmother. They are even [[CrossDressingVoices voiced by women]] in the original but some languages actually have them being [[VocalDissonance voiced by full-grown men]].

* Infinity Nado

* Screechers Wild
** ArtificialHuman Bai Jing was actually the [[HalfIdenticalTwins half identical twin of]] of another artificial human named Hēi Yào (Dark Blair) except with blue hair but still looks rather effeminate since he is a young boy. In his and Hēi Yào's debut episode, he was asked if they were "brother and sister". This actually becomes a case of ShesaManinJapan(or in this case China) with the English dub as Bai Jing was dubbed [[DubNameChange "Snowy Girl"]] who uses she/her pronouns and was asked if she sisters with Dark Blair instead.

* Lulu from ''WebVideo/CreamHeroes is frequently mistaken for female by fans due to his name being feminine in English. (The reason for this is [[ThemeNaming all the cats have repeated phonetic syllables for names]] and Lulu was simply unlucky in that regard.)

* ''Series/LambChopsPlayAlong'': Lamb Chop is sometimes mistaken for a boy, due to her lack of TertiarySexualCharacteristics and the fact that her "brothers" Charlie Horse and Hush Puppy are both boys. The segments showing her as a baby avert this, though, since there she wears a [[PinkMeansFeminine pink onesie]] and a [[SignatureHairDec headband with a pink bow.]]

** Big Bird is sometimes mistaken for a girl, thanks to his high-pitched voice, his lack of TertiarySexualCharacteristics, the show's young target audience, and the puppeteer's GenderBlenderName. Yes, Caroll Spinney is male.

* ''Series/TheChicaShow'': Even though her name means "girl" in Spanish, Chica is sometimes mistaken for a girl.

Congratulations, you've just become a happy victim of Viewer Gender Confusion!

Compare ShesAManInJapan, where the character's gender actually ''was'' changed while adapting. Also compare {{Bifauxnen}}, SamusIsAGirl, AlienGenderConfusion (where this happens in-universe to members of different species), FemaleMonsterSurprise (where you are expected to be mistaken at first) and AmbiguousGenderIdentity (where the character's sex is (probably) known but their gender isn't). Contrast (or compare?) DudeLooksLikeALady or LadyLooksLikeADude when it's other characters who are confused.

Compare ShesAManInJapan, where the character's gender actually ''was'' changed while adapting. Also compare {{Bifauxnen}}, SamusIsAGirl, AlienGenderConfusion, where this happens in-universe to members of different species, and FemaleMonsterSurprise, where you are expected to be mistaken at first, and AmbiguousGenderIdentity, where the character's sex is (probably) known but their gender isn't. Contrast (or compare?) DudeLooksLikeALady or LadyLooksLikeADude when it's other characters who are confused.

* In Animation/TheAdventuresofLittleCarp Aoqi the seahorse often gets mistaken as a female due to his pink coloring and feminine poses. In addition Bubbles, the main character, also often gets confused to be female due to the constant comparison to him and his grandmother. They are even [[CrossDressingVoices voiced by women]] in the original but some languages actually have them being [[VocalDissonance voiced by full-grown men]].

* In The Adventures of Little Carp Aoqi the seahorse often gets mistaken as a female due to his pink coloring and feminine poses. In addition Bubbles, the main character, also often gets confused to be female due to the constant comparison to him and his grandmother. They are even [[CrossDressingVoices voiced by women]] in the original but some languages actually have them being [[VocalDissonance voiced by full-grown men]].

* From the FanWebcomic ''Webcomic/KillLaKillAU'', if it wasn't stated or shown to a certain degree otherwise, you probably would have thought Mako was a boy, as she has pretty short hair but, otherwise, wears a dress. Likewise, same can occur for Shiro, who, despite his masculine clothing, has something a feminine hairstyle.

* While this was less true in the early days, post 80s, some people begun to mistake Peppermint Patty from ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' due to a mixture of Schultz drawing her with shorts (rather than a skirt, to illustrate that she is a tomboy), [[ValuesDissonance longer hair on younger boys becoming more acceptable than it was in the 50s and 60s]], Marcie always calling her "Sir", as well as [[CrossdressingVoices her being voiced by an actual boy in the specials]], Patty has been mistaken for a boy later on. This has, however, still contributed to a few [[LesYay popular theories]] about her and Marcie's relationship.

See also AmbiguousGender for characters who have no canonically stated gender, and ViewerSpeciesConfusion for when it happens to an animal or other non-human character. May be solved with the use (or lack) of TertiarySexualCharacteristics. Can be seen as the viewer-perspective version of UnsettlingGenderReveal. Anything that makes the character's sex obvious may act as a GenderReveal.

* [=YouTube=] comments on newer ''WebAnimation/BamanPiderman'' episodes frequently ask if Pumkin is a girl, perhaps due to his [[{{Moe}} cute]], [[{{Adorkable}} awkward]] nature ever since [[spoiler:gaining a body]] and his actions towards Piderman, despite him being unambiguously referred to as male InUniverse.

[[caption-width-right:317:[-Hey everyone, it's time to play "Guy or Girl?"-][[note]]In [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX this case]], despite [[DudeLookLikeALady feminine]] looks, [[SissyVillain guy]].[[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:317:[-Hey everyone, it's time to play "Guy or Girl?"-][[note]]In [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX this case]], [[DudeLooksLikeALady guy]].[[/note]]]]

You have been watching this series for a while, be it since childhood or since yesterday. You are just in the middle of an exciting scene where [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Miss Lovecuddles]] reveals that she was actually [[TheManBehindTheMan behind everything that]]… wait a minute, ''Mister''? Lovecuddles is a ''guy''?

You have been watching this series for a while, be it since childhood or since yesterday. You are just in the middle of an exciting scene where [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Miss Lovecuddles]] reveals that she was actually [[TheManBehindTheMan behind everything that]]… wait a minute, ''Miss''? He's not a ''boy''?

* In The Adventures of Little Carp Aoqi the seahorse often gets mistaken as a female due to his pink coloring and feminine poses. In addition Bubbles, the main character, also often gets confused to be female due to the constant comparison to him and his grandmother. They are even [[CrossDressingVoices voiced by women]] in the original but some languages actually have them being [[VocalDissonance voiced by men]]

* In The Adventures of Little Carp Aoqi the seahorse often gets mistaken as a female due to his pink coloring and feminine poses. In addition Bubbles, the main character, also often gets confused to be female due to the constant comparison to him and his grandmother. They are even [[Cross-DressingVoices voiced by women]] in the original but some languages actually have them being [[VocalDissonance voiced by men]]

** There are other feminine characters such as Temperance from seasons one and three and Yintian (a child who accompanies the Indian Hunter God in season two) who have occasionally used male pronouns in the original series though they can also be categorized in the AmbiguousGender tropes as their genders were never explicitly stated.

* In The Adventures of Little Carp Aoqi the seahorse often gets mistaken as a female due to his pink coloring and feminine poses. In addition Bubbles, the main character, also often gets confused to be female due to the constant comparison to him and his grandmother. They are even [[Cross-dressingVoices voiced by women]] in the original but some languages actually have them being [[VocalDissonance voiced by men]]

* In The Adventures of Little Carp Aoqi the seahorse often gets mistaken as a female due to his pink coloring and feminine poses. In addition Bubbles, the main character, also often gets confused to be female due to the constant comparison to him and his grandmother. They are even [[crossdressingvoices voiced by women]] in the original but some languages actually have them being [[vocaldisonence voiced by men]]

* In The Adventures of Little Carp Aoqi the seahorse often gets mistaken as a female due to his pink coloring and feminine poses. In addition Bubbles, the main character, also often gets confused to be female due to the constant comparison to him and his grandmother.