Androgynous creatures

Androgynous Creatures

androgyny

Androgyny is a term derived from the Greek words ανήρ, stem ανδρ- (anér, andr-, meaning man) and γυνή (gyné, meaning woman), referring to the combination of masculine and feminine characteristics. This may be as in fashion, sexual identity, or sexual lifestyle, or it may refer to biologically inter-sexed physicality, especially with regards to plant and human sexuality.

Angels are generally considered androgynous

Whether it is due to their gorgeous hair, delicate features, snazzy dressing, or fey nature, some boys get called "little lady" more often than they'd like. The opposite of Lady Looks Like a Dude, this trope involves male characters who are frequently mistaken for female (by other characters). who are feminine or androgynous-looking — some of those dudes do look like ladies, but what separates it from this trope is that it's not commented on by other characters

Androgynous males are Not to be confused with:

• Wholesome Crossdresser (when the dude wants to look like a girl)
• Viewer Gender Confusion (when you mistake a character's gender)
• Badass Longhair (when the dude just has long hair, but is still unmistakably male)
• Disguised in Drag (when the dude's dressing as a girl only for a specific reason)
• Man, I Feel Like a Woman (that's a whole 'nother story entirely)
• Transsexual (when the "dude" identifies as a girl and is trying to pass as one)
• Everybody Wants The Hermaphrodite (when the "dude" has female parts as well as male ones)

Androgynous women can be as handsome as men like Kate Blancet and Tilda Wilson

Gender identity

For humans, an androgyne ( /ˈændrədʒaɪn/ AN-drə-jyn) in terms of gender identity, is a person who does not fit cleanly into the typical masculine and feminine gender roles of their society. They may also use the term ambigender to describe themselves. Many androgynes identify as being mentally "between" woman and man, or as entirely genderless. They may identify as non-gendered, genderneutral, agendered, between genders, genderqueer, multigendered, intergendered, pangender or gender fluid.

Androgynous angelic faces somewhat cherubic and captivating

 Asian Androgyns are a perfect example of beauty of neither sex, angelic.

Cherubic Korean actor Kim Hye-sung of Unstoppable High kick

Ryosuke Yamada cute and androgynous as angels

Kevin woo of U-kiss and Xing

Androgynous man can contend if not surpass the beauty of women

The Bem Sex Role Inventory

The Bem Sex Role Inventory is one of the most widely used gender measures and was constructed by the early leading proponent of androgyny, Sandra Bem (1977). Based on their responses to the items in the Bem Sex-Role Inventory, individuals are classified as having one of four gender-role orientations: masculine, feminine, androgynous, or undifferentiated.

The androgynous person is simply a female or male who has a high degree of both feminine (expressive) and masculine (instrumental) traits. A feminine individual is high on feminine (expressive) traits and low on masculine (instrumental) traits. A masculine individual is high on instrumental traits and low on expressive traits. An undifferentiated person is low on both feminine and masculine traits

Gender roles

Louise Brooks exemplified the flapper. Flappers challenged traditional gender roles, had boyish hair cuts and androgynous figures.

According to Sandra Bem, androgynous men and women are more flexible and more mentally healthy than either masculine or feminine individuals; undifferentiated individuals are less competent. More recent research has debunked this idea, at least to some extent, and Bem herself has found weaknesses in her original pioneering work, preferring now to work with gender schema theory.

To some degree though, context influences which gender role is most adaptive. In close relationships, a feminine or androgynous gender role may be more desirable because of the expressive nature of close relationships. However, a masculine or androgynous gender role may be more desirable in academic and work settings because of their demands for action and assertiveness.

One study found that masculine and androgynous individuals had higher expectations for being able to control the outcomes of their academic efforts than feminine or undifferentiated individuals.

Androgynous Traits

A statuette of Aphroditus in the anasyromenos pose. The ancient Greeks and Romans believed the pose had apotropaic magical power.

Androgynous traits are those that either have no gender value, or have some aspects generally attributed to the opposite sex. Physical androgyny (compare intersex), which deals with physical traits, is distinct from behavioral androgyny which deals with personal and social anomalies in gender, and from psychological androgyny, which is a matter of gender identity.^{[citation needed]}

To say that a culture or relationship is androgynous is to say that it lacks rigid gender roles and that the people involved display characteristics or partake in activities traditionally associated with the other sex. The term androgynous is often used to refer to a person whose look or build make determining their gender difficult but is generally not used as a synonym for actual intersexuality, transgender or two-spirit people. Occasionally, people who do not actually define themselves as androgynes adapt their physical appearance to look androgynous. This outward androgyny has been used as a fashion statement, and some of the milder forms (women wearing men's trousers/men wearing skirts, for example) are not perceived as transgendered behavior.

Lesbians who do not define themselves as butch or femme may identify with various other labels including androgynous or andro for short. A few other examples include lipstick lesbian, tomboy, and 'tom suay' which is Thai for 'beautiful butch'. Some lesbians reject gender performativity labels altogether and resent their imposition by others. Note that androgynous and butch are often considered equivalent definitions, though less so in the butch/femme scene.

The recently coined word genderqueer is often used to refer to androgynes, but the terms genderqueer and androgyne (or androgynous) are neither equivalent nor interchangeable. Genderqueer is not specific to androgynes, does not denote gender identity, and may refer to any person, cisgender or transgender, whose behavior falls outside conventional gender norms. Furthermore, genderqueer, by virtue of its linkage with queer culture, carries sociopolitical connotations that androgyne does not carry. For these reasons, some androgynes may find the label genderqueer inaccurate, inapplicable, or offensive.

Alternatives

An alternative to androgyny is gender-role transcendence, the view that when an individual's competence is at issue, it should be conceptualized on a personal basis rather than on the basis of masculinity, femininity, or androgyny^.

In agenderism the division of people into women and men, in the physical sense, is erroneous and artificial. It negates the biological sex (or lack thereof) as a carrier of specific features and tendencies of personality, and as a yardstick to determine human inside "I" (Ego). In the category of transgenderism (literally, being "beyond gender identity") a person like agender can be included in a sense which rejects functioning under of any psycho-cultural gender.

Contemporary trends

The rise of androgyny in popular culture has also been on the increase in the 21st century and beyond,with an increasing rise in both fashion industries, as well as pop culture for acceptance and even popularity of the "androgynous" look, with several trends set by current pop stars, being hailed as creative trendsetters.

The rise of the metrosexual in the 2000s has also been described as a related phenomenon associated with this trend, and traditional gender stereotypes have been challenged as well as reset in recent years dating back to the 1960s and the hippie movement and flower power. Artists in film like Leonardo DiCaprio sported the "skinny" look in the 1990s- a departure from traditional masculinity which resulted in a fad 

known as "Leo Mania",^[ and this came long after musical superstars like David Bowie, Boy George, Prince, Annie Lennox challenged the norms in the 1970s and had elaborate cross gender wardrobes by the 1980s. Musical stars such as the band Placebo and Marilyn Manson have created an androgyny culture throughout the 1990's and 2000's, sporting female clothing and even wearing a PVC suit in the album cover for Mechanical Animals making him appear genderless, showing breasts and no reproductive organs. These entertainers were known to have started trends of becoming increasingly conscious of their fashion and looks, and inadvertently raised trends as celebrities in the limelight that males were now increasingly interested in traditional female interests like clothing, fashion accessories, hairstyles, manicures, spa treatments and so on, which have seen the societal redefinition of traditional gender fashion norms, due to the popularity of these artistes with many people in the world today. These trends have arguably then gone on to reshape fashion, and clothing houses like Top Man, and designer labels have then seen an increase in sales in relevant "androgynous" merchandise. 

While the 1990s developed and fashion developed an affinity for unisex clothes and the rise of designers who favoured that look like Helmut Lang, Giorgio Armani and Pierre Cardin, the trends in fashion only hit the public mainstream in the 2000s, which saw men sporting longer hair, hairdyes, hair highlights, wearing jewellery, make up, visual kei, designer stubble, or the like, all of which been a significant mainstream trend of the 21st century, both in the western world, and in Asia. Japanese and Korean cultures have been featuring the androgynous look as an ideal in society, as depicted in both K-pop, J-popand in Anime and Manga, as well as the fashion industry.

Andrei Pejic beautiful and androgynous male model

Tilda Winston is very androgynous that’s why her role as angel Gabriel in Constantine fits her perfectly

Androgynous Males in :

    Anime & Manga 

• Maron Glace from Sorcerer Hunters is often mistaken for a woman and is chased by men because of his beauty
• Samurai Deeper Kyo has Yukimura, a handsome bishonen who is sufficiently androgynous that he can easily pass for a woman in the right clothes, and has a FEMALE ninja as his body double. Not a macho-looking female ninja either.
• Haku, of Naruto looks feminine to the point that the main character is left in shock when he learns that Haku is actually a boy.

·         Naruto: No way?! He's prettier than Sakura!

·         Kazuki of the Strings in Get Backers

• When Kazuki of the Strings in Get Backers assists a person in a hospital, not only does the head nurse assume he is a woman, she thinks he is a trainee, makes him wear a nurse's uniform, and takes his clothes.
• Hotohori of Fushigi Yuugi is initially mistaken for a woman.
• Kurapika from Hunter × Hunter, especially in the anime since he is voiced by a girl despite being male. His gender actually remained ambiguous for quite a while, but weirdly nobody in the series seems to have trouble identifying his gender.
• Lampshaded in the anime, where Leorio dismisses the idea of trying to get someone to guess his gender... only to realize that the androgynous-looking Kurapika is the perfect candidate. This seems to give Kurapika the creeps.
• Lyserg Gytel of Shaman King

• Hansel and/or Gretel, Black Lagoon's psychopathic child-assassins. The only difference between the two is a dress and a wig, which they routinely switch, so both/either/neither of them could be a girl... or boy.

• Wolfram, Saralegui, and Gunter from Kyou Kara Maou.

• Ayase Yukiya from Okane Ga Nai.

• Ouran High School Host Club plays with this, in that Haruhi would fall into this perfectly... and does in the eyes of the Host Club's customers.

Comic Books 

• Korbinian ("Bini") from Mingamanga is a Heavy Metal fan and has the hair. Also, the teacher mistakes "Korbinian" for "Korbinia".
• Loki of The Mighty Thor spent around four years real-time as a woman. He identified as both genders, though like Thor (who still referred to him as "brother") he mostly seemed to think of himself as male. The trope was referenced by name on the official Marvel bio site, that termed this period of his life: Loki looks like a Lady

    Film — Animation 

• This is Francis the male ladybug's shtick in A Bugs Life. He has a very feminine face as well as a very masculine voice. This is lampshaded a couple of times; for example, when we first meet him, two bugs in the audience start hitting on him when he performs.

Francis: So, being a ladybug automatically makes me a girl! Is that it, flyboy?! Eh?!
Flies: Cripes, she's a guy!

    Film — Live-Action 

• Ra in Stargate looks pretty girlish, and is played by the same actor who played the transsexual Dil in The Crying Game.
• The peasant at the beginning of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
• And Prince Alice... er, Herbert.
• Tobio in Wild Zero (although he might be a Wholesome Crossdresser).
• In the movie version of Hair, the hippies crash a party and one of the partygoers comments on the "Negro with the two young ladies" (there was only one girl in the group).
• Jimmy McElroy in Blades of Glory.
• The '60s comedy What's New Pussycat? opens with Peter Sellers, in a velvet suit and shoulder-length hair, arguing with his wife who accuses him of seeing another woman. She demands "Is she prettier than me?" He shouts "Is she prettier than you?! ...I'm prettier than you!"
• Invasion of the Neptune Men. The Neptune Men's human disguises has them wearing heavy lipstick and mascara.

    Literature 

• Most males in the Anita Blake series fit this trope except for Richard and a couple of others. Most of them are swooningly subservient, have feminine faces, slender bodies and long flowing hair.
• The Fool in Robin Hobb's works. He even spends a few years passing as a woman, and for most of the series the Fool's exact gender is unknown, until the final book of The Tawny Man series, where it is revealed that the Fool is actually male.
• Lani Garver, from What Happened To Lani Garver. In fact, although the narrator finally just refers to Lani in the masculine form, the issue is never actually resolved.
• There's an entire species of these in Alan Dean Foster's Taken trilogy. When they talk, however, they sound like garbage disposals, as fits their combination of an absolute sense of honor and a fondness for killing.
• Nakajima, protagonist of the Digital Devil Story series, is described as handsome in a feminine way. Specifically used as a taunt at one point.
• Armand

    Live-Action TV 

• Vince Noir of The Mighty Boosh is mistaken for a woman (or more specifically, as his friend Howard's wife or girlfriend) in nearly every episode. He addresses his oddly compelling androgyny himself in the episode "Party": "Of course you [fancy me] — all men do! I'm the confuser! 'Is it a man? Is it a woman? I'm not sure if I mind!'"
• Dennis Finch in Just Shoot Me!, though he is more often confused for being gay.
• The CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode "What's Eating Gilbert Grissom?" features a guy killed after he is mistaken for the female victim the murderer had already picked out. The murderer did have vision problems though, due to bad laser surgery, but not confusing your victims is Serial Killer 101.
• An episode of the German police procedural Tatort had a short scene from a rapist's point of view while he was looking for a new victim. The camera lengthily gazed over several longhaired beauties, among them one which caused the POV to rapidly shift to another when he turned around.
• Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! had a whole song about a man whose footsteps sounded like those of a woman.
• An episode of Mad About You had Paul and his cousin first mistaking an obese "woman" as pregnant - and when correcting for that mistake, discovering it was a man. After it was solved, they call the waiter who asks "And the lady?".
• While Kurt from Glee doesn't look like a girl per se (though he's Bishōnen enough that him doing drag isn't hard to picture), he certainly sounds like one: the second thing he usually has to say when answering the phone is "No, she's dead, this is her son." It's been lampshaded a bit, like like Sue calling him "lady face" and when the mean jocks in theatricality mentioned that they couldn't tell the difference between him and girls.
• Chappelle's Show: During Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories skit about Prince, Charlie Murphy remarks how Mickey Free, a member of Prince's crew, looked like a girl.

When he joined the group, I heard mad cats like, "Yo, Shalamar got a new girl in there, man, bitch fine like a motherfucker." They was talking about Mickey Free, man, okay? Mickey Free is not a girl."

• Noah's Arc: Even aside from the effeminate clothes, Romeo's physical features are remarkably feminine.
• 2 Broke Girls: Han remarks in one episode that a Camp Gay couple asked him if he was a "rice queen on the downlow"

Earl: They think he's gay!

Max: Huh... (beat) That's a step up; usually people think he's a lesbian.

    Music 

• Besides the Trope Namer, there's also the Killers song "Somebody Told Me"*.
• "And Jet, I thought the major was a lady suffragette. JET!!! Woo-ooh-ooh-WOOH-ooh-ooh-WOOH-ooh-ooh!"
• Oh, SHINee's Taemin...
• Jonas Bjerre, lead vocalist of the alt-rock band Mew.
• Most ironic of all, Steven Tyler's face has become unexpectedly feminine since his recent plastic surgery/ies. Dude * does* look like a lady.◊ (Carly Simon, to be specific.)
• Interestingly, even before the surgery, it had been noted that his daughters (particularly Liv) were really good looking, despite taking after him—and he's always been noted to look rather like a troll. Perhaps his native features just look better on a woman.
• Davey Havok of the band AFI, as seen in this Nothing Nice to Say strip.
• He's manned up considerably as of the release of Crash Love (2009).
• Brian Molko. Incredibly feminine.
• Depends on the photo. Sometimes he looks indistinguishable from a woman, other times he looks like a dude in makeup, other times he looks... somewhat hard to tell, etc.
• ... David Bowie?
• More a case of Even the Guys Want Him. He doesn't look that feminine, but who really minds?
• In the late sixties and early seventies, he looked very◊ feminine◊ indeed.◊
• Look at his video Boys Keep Swinging. Those three girl backup singers? They're all David Bowie.
• Jeffree Star has made a career of looking 'fierce'. Many don't realise he's a boy for quite some time. See here◊
• Bill Kaulitz. Yep, that's a guy.◊
• Have some more to help you make up your mind.
• It's even funnier when you imagine what the other members of the boygroup he's part of must be thinking of the guy. Seriously, one day he looks completely normal and then poof, suddenly mascara! By this point, "Bill" looks girlier than Madonna.
• Before he finally finished puberty, Bill Kaulitz of the german Rock Band ''Tokio Hotel''◊ was most of the time mistaken for a woman for both, his looks and his voice. (Styling himself like a J-Rock singer might have had something to do with it as well.) 90% of the bashing the band got (And there were whole websites dedicated to bashing that band) were actually targeted against Bill's androgynous looks, which supposedly gave "real men" in german showbiz a bad name.
• It's also worth noting that one of those bandmates is his identical Twin Brother, Tom. He had the same features, but manned up his look considerably with the use of piercings and long dreadlocks.
• Jonne Aaron, singer of the Finnish band Negative. Quite possibly more feminine than Kaulitz.
• It's not so much that he was more feminine than Bill, it's just that his was a much more natural femininity. He didn't use half as much make up.
• He has since manned up◊... sort of.
• On the subject of Finnish musicians, Marko Laiho of the Black Metal band Beherit has exemplified this trope on a few of their early photos
• Sebastian Bach of Skid Row. Although the people being fooled were Beavis And Butthead so that's hardly conclusive proof.
• People still mistake the 100% pure man J-rocker singer Gackt for a chick (despite his deep manly voice, rock-hard flat abs and personality) — it might have something to do with his pretty◊ factor.◊ He himself has stated that he thinks he would lose in a contest for looking like a manly man, but that he'd kick everyone's ass in an androgyny contest.
• The cover for his recent single "Koakuma Heaven" certainly doesn't help things◊ (However you can clearly see his Adam's apple).
• This was especially funny around the time his new movie "Bunraku" was announced with a picture of him next to Josh Hartnett. Many fans of Hartnett who saw the picture on forums made comments like "Wow! That asian chick is so pretty! Who is she? Is she his love interest in the movie?"
• This can also be applied to many other Visual Kei artists and J-rockers, often intentionally. Although in a the case of Miyavi◊, he looks girly even without make-up, skirts and hair.
• It isn't just Miyavi who looks feminine even without trying. Shinya◊ from Diren Grey has to be the best example of that. X Japan's Yoshiki is the same. It must be a drummer thing. As for Gackt- well, he doesn't seem to be mistaken for a woman very often really, but maybe that's because when he was at his most androgynous he was within close proximity to Mana◊, and that can distort perceptions a bit.
• Boy George, especially during the 80's.
• Michael Jackson spent some time between plastic surgeries looking exactly like his sister Latoya.
• Ryan Ross◊ from Panic At The Disco. Every time he decides to grow facial hair life feels like a bizarro acid trip where nothing makes sense.
• There is a pic of him and his ex-girlfriend where they looked exactly like a lesbian couple. where he must have been at least 19. He looks like the young girlfriend of the guy he's in the picture with.
• Spencer Smith◊ (on the left). In his younger◊ days◊ he often looked girlish which was compounded by the fact that he sometimes wore girls'◊ clothing and jeans and usually stands with his hip cocked. You can see it in motion here◊. Now he still has a pretty face but usually covers it up with a beard◊ that's fuller at some times than others and a bigger, manly figure, also at times. He still ends up looking like a bearded◊ woman◊ sometimes though.
• This applies to Brendon Urie◊ as well, only exacerbated... um enhanced with his flamboyant attire◊ to match Spencer's, and liberal use of stage makeup◊.
• Especially made clear when seen in this group picture◊, with only Jon Walker (the one in black) looking particularly masculine.
• The Hanson brothers in the band Hanson were jokingly referred to as the Hanson sisters for a long time.
• Adam Lambert of American Idol is this on the cover of his self-titled album.
• Pete Burns of 80's Synth Pop group Dead Or Alive. A Wholesome Crossdresser. Partial subversion in that his singing voice makes it quite clear he's a man.
• All of the members of X Japan. Take a look at their pages if you don't believe us. Subverted, however, by Pata when he grew a beard to look more masculine.
• Drive/+ images/35557657 Michael Jagmin (center, redhead) of post-hardcore band A Skylit Drive. His voice doesn't help.
• Roger Taylor◊ of Queen fell victim to this trope so often that he cut his hair in an attempt to avert it◊.
• J-pop singer SHOWTA. NO ONE believes he's a guy the first time they see him. It doesn't help that he has a very high, girlish voice.
• The late Taiwanese singer Chang Yu Sheng, who also sounded like a girl.
• Almost every group in Johnny's Entertainment has one.
• Japanese guitarist Hizaki of Versailles. He wears fancy dresses and really◊ pulls◊ it off◊. Late bassist Jasmine You also◊ fit◊ this◊. Other guitarist Teru falls◊ into◊ this◊ occasionally.
• All the guys in Vidoll and most other Visual Kei bands.

• Justin Bieber.

• "There is nothing sexy about 16 year old boys. (...) Even if that 16-year-old boy looks like Taylor Swift's little sister." 
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• Marilyn Manson at times◊ (NSFW)
• Korean singer G-Dragon definitely looks like a girl despite his lack of hair. ◊
• Snooky Serna is an actress from the Philippines know for her andrgynous beauty
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

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• Billy Joe Crawfort a filipino-american recording artist,singer songwriter, actor,comedian and TV host when he was young was very androgynous with his apple cut hair

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• Everybody in the Japanese heavy metal band Dir En Grey used to look like females at the start of their career, especially because of the makeup.
• Max Burkholder as Charlie Sandin in the movie The Purge is Androgynous
  
  
  

  

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• The artist who painted the front cover of Daryl Hall And John Oates' self-titled 1975 album (the one with "Sara Smile" on it) make them look very effeminate◊ against the duo's will, especially Daryl, which would lead to stories that the duo were gay lovers. Daryl would joke in their 1998 VH-1 Behind The Music episode that on the cover he looked like "the woman I always wanted to go out with".

    Religion and Mythology 

• In Greek Mythology, Narcissus fell in love with his own reflection. Some say that he mistook it for a beautiful woman, while others say that he recognized himself. He was then turned into a flower that bears his name. This happened because he spurned the affections of a young man named Ameinias and a (female) nymph named Echo, who prayed to Nemesis for revenge.

    Theatre 

• In Jerusalem, Ginger is mistaken for a woman by the Professor, though this is only because the former has long hair and the latter is a senile and possibly crazy old man. Nobody else has any doubts about Ginger's sex, which makes sense given that Mackensie Crook doesn't look much like a woman at all.

    Video Games 

• The male cleric from Disgaea takes the cake for being the most feminine. Infact the anime adaptation has an episode where Laharl encounters a "biker gang" and this nameless member of it was given a female voice with a british accent when dubbed Nevermind the male voice in the original audio and label in the actual game.
• Link in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. He's shown as manly in the concept art, but leaves much to be desired regarding that area in the actual game; high cheekbones, pointy chin, full lips and big eyes are serious clinchers for this category.
• Raiden, from Metal Gear Solid 2. Like Rune, he got patted down, but in... er, a different area. By the US President. It doesn't help that we're so used to visual representation of the male body as having no hips (they do, just not as pronounced as women) that Raiden is relentlessly mocked because of the figure-enhancing suit he wears. ("Hips Don't Lie" is a minor meme for male character models that look like they're just very flat women.)
• Then there's Raikov, from the follow up game Metal Gear Solid 3. Raikov was created in response to the controversy surrounding Raiden following his replacement of Solid Snake as the main character. Hideo Kojima on more than one occasion has commented on Raikov's beautiful looks.
• There's Gothitelle from Pokémon, with a M/F ratio of 25%/75%. However, Gothitelle looks a lot like a woman.
• Fire Emblem has a couple of these. The first one seen by Westerners was Lucius◊ from the seventh game, Fire Emblem: Rekka no ken. He's even mistaken to be a woman by Serra in-game.
• Marth (called "Martha" by some) gets a lot of flak for this by Super Smash Bros. Fans. He's actually not that girly when compared to◊ other◊ characters◊ in the series or even other lords◊.
• Libera from Fire Emblem Awakening gets mistaken for a woman by practically everyone who talks to him, due to both looking and sounding very feminine. So much that some of them occasionally forget that he's a man, even after he points it out to them.
• And then there's Kuja from Final Fantasy IX, who is wearing the most feminine, Stripperific outfit imaginable (except for the codpiece...), has feathers in his long, flowing, luxurious hair, and is wearing lipstick and eyeshadow, not to mention the feminine hips and waist. There's a reason he's the poster guy for the Viewer Gender Confusion page. Only once is this commented on in-story, when Queen Brahne calls him girly.
• Cecil from Final Fantasy IV has long, flowing hair, an angelic face, and even wears lipstick.
• In DS, Cecil's gets gets an decent outfit that doesn't look girly after changing to a Light Knight at Mt. Ordeals.
• The (in)famous cross-dressing quest from Final Fantasy VII cannot be left out of this category. Cloud is generally presented as withdrawn and Badass, but he's clearly a pretty man if there's a way for Don Corneo to pick him in the competition.
• Let's not forget Bridget from Guilty Gear. Doesn't help that he makes for a cute girl...
• Bridget from (no, not Guilty Gear) Disgaea 2. Just like every other human in the game, he was cursed with the appearance of a demon. Of course, in his case, the aforementioned demon form is that of a very feminine Nymph-like creature. Unsettling Gender Reveal}}s ensue.
• Check out the people on the cover of Magna Carta: Tears of Blood. One of them is a man.
• Here's more◊. That's the male part of the cast. With such androgynous males it's practically happens in reverse - you start seeing traps that aren't there. Like on this pic◊, featuring female part of the cast, the right-most girl can be taken for yet another trap.
• Shion from King of Fighters XI. In fact, he was going to be a girl according to Word Of God, but got his gender changed in the last minute. And then SNK got confused themselves!
• Then there's Adelheid Bernstein of The King of Fighters 2003 and afterward. He was actually designed as a girl (that name? The standard nickname for it is "Heidi"), but then SNK decided to make the child of Rugal that did the fighting into a guy. It's easy to tell the designs started as a female.
• In Fatal Fury, there's also Jin Chonshu., twin brother of Jin Chonrei. The voice behind him is Kappei Yamaguchi. Gosh Dang It to Heck!, that's gotta be some very convincing 'Cross Dressing Voice'!
• Leon in the Resident Evil series. Often complains women won't listen to/ignore him. In Resident Evil 4 at the start talking to the Spanish policemen in their car results in them asking "Why you back, forgotten your makeup?"
• As of Resident Evil 6, Leon still has the same haircut, but his face looks more rugged and masculine than before. He's even got a bit of facial hair going now.
• Felix in Radiata Stories. He has a male stalker who is shocked and appalled when it is revealed that Felix is male - yet continues to stalk him anyway.
• Kingdom Hearts has plenty of guys who could be women at first glance, most notably Marluxia, whose original design was supposed to be female anyway, but was changed to a guy after he was partnered with a woman and they decided two women who tried to rebel against the rest of the (male) Organization and failed would have severe Unfortunate Implications.
• Gaia Online's Gino Gambino, despite having Big Ol' Eyebrows, is so femme that people joked about his "lesbian kiss" with Sasha.
• Ace Attorney:
• Ron DeLite. The personality doesn't help matters, nor does his hairstyle being one half of Yurika Kirishima's hairdo.
• Jean Armstrong is an... odd, example. He's obviously male due to his beard and muscular arms, but his nature is so dainty and feminine that the judge actually asks him whether he's a woman. He even refers to himself as a 'girl' at times, which makes it even more confusing.
• Tales Series:
• Zelos Wilder from Tales Of Symphonia.
• Mithos is far worse as he looks almost like Colette. Considering Colette was the result of controlling marriages over time in an attempt to create an almost exact body duplicate of Mithos' sister for the purpose of becoming Martel, this is justified.
• Yuri from Tales Of Vesperia tripped a lot of people up.
• Duke from Tales Of Vesperia tripped up a lot of people as well.
• Ion from Tales Of The Abyss, and Jade seems to have been with his official artwork.
• Flea of Chrono Trigger is mistaken for a woman when he first appears. Of course, that he is apparently wearing a bra and a dress and talks like a flirtatious woman doesn't help in the slightest.
• Fierro of Eternal Eden fell in love with Jean despite Jean telling him that he's a man.
• Palm in Mushihime-sama Futari. The breast tube he wears tends to make discerning his gender a bit confusing.
• Strider Hien is pretty girly looking if you don't believe it Google his name up and look at images
• Shin Kazama in U.N. Squadron, aka Area 88. If you were familiar with the original manga it was probably easier to tell he was a guy. When all you have is one measly portrait? Less so.
• The titular hero of The Legend Of Kage.
• Ranmaru Mori of the Samurai Warriors series has a very feminine appearance. Amusingly, one of his battlecries from Warriors Orochi is "I'm as dangerous as I am manly!"
• Megaman Battle Network 4 features Viddy Narcy, which you'll swear it's a girl unless you read his wiki entry. The lack of voice acting on the game further feeds this belief, to the point you'll treat him like a girl anyways. Apparently, he's got a hairstyle◊ that's beyond gender.
• Jikun Hu from Cosmic Break, the fact that most human powersuit users are all women doesn't help
• The Prince of Falena (the main character) of Suikoden V. Somehow this is not really commented on in-game, but he has a feminine face (ESPECIALLY in the higher-detail opening sequence), slender shoulders that he emphasizes with a shoulderless breastplate, long, braided white hair, and he wears tights and appears to be wearing a skirt. Even one of his two voice options (which is only heard as grunts in battle) is distinctly high-pitched. Before the game was released, many people thought it was going to have a female protagonist.
• Golden Sun: Dark Dawn's two playable Water Adepts are both male.
• Rief's gender was the subject of a great deal of online Wild Mass Guessing for quite a while. Leaked clips of his Voice Grunting didn't help, since Golden Sun uses the same set of squeaks for young boys as for female characters.
• Early material on the European official website billed Amiti as a girl, despite a leak of his Shirtless Scene. This was eventually corrected.
• Factor in Amiti's Bishōnen father and the fact that Rief and Amiti are second cousins it becomes apparent that this is a hereditary trait.
• In World of Warcraft, blood elf males invoke this trope frequently. One post-Cataclysm quest, for instance, features a parody of a Knight Errant looking for damsels in distress. One of said damsels is a male blood elf, who dropped his purse...um "crate" in the lake.
• Bujingai: Swordmaster has Lao: apparently being played by Gackt wasn't enough, so they put purple lipstick on him.
• Ranmaru Mori (no, not that one) of Onimusha 3: Demon Siege looks extremely feminine as a human. When he is transformed into a Genma he looks a little more manly, but not that much.
• Then there's Kotaro Fuuma in Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny, who also looks rather feminine. Ironic, considering he has a deep dislike of women...
• Look at the team rosters for any of the Inazuma Eleven games. With very few exceptions, the teams aren't as co-ed as they appear. Even when they have boys who look like this◊. Or this◊.

    Visual Novels 

• Clannad: Kappei Hiiragi. Sunohara is still in denial, despite the fact that Tomoya told him that he had been fooled. The implications are not lost.
• Jun from Happiness.
• Yuuki Ashikaga in School Days.
• Kanon of Umineko No Naku Koro Ni. Though it might be a reason for this since it is hinted that he and his "sister" Shannon actually are the same person.

    Webcomics 

• Jacob the Rag doll from Monsterful, his long hair and shy personality make it even worse.
• Tedd of El Goonish Shive, whenever he removes his Nerd Glasses. And even when he doesn't, "he's just that androgynous" is the oldest Running Gag of EGS.
• Certain habits of his don't help matters, though it's suggested that one of the reasons he does it is when he's a boy, his feminine face gets him mocked. When he's a girl, he's a hottie.
• Noah is even worse. Elliot's reaction when meeting him is "Who's this...guy? I think?"
• Dan in Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures .
• Penny Arcade had a running gag where Gabe kept mistaking game developer John Romero for a woman (despite Tycho's repeated corrections) because of his "long, flowing hair".
• They both made this mistake at least once.
• Parodied in Insecticomics when Moral Guardian Lady Jaye attempts to make the 'naked' robots all wear censor bars. Override, who is female but has a gender-neutral body, taunts Lady Jaye by asking how many censor bars she needs. Lady Jaye eventually puts a censor bar on her groin but not on her chest, having decided that Override is male.
• Given that in the original show Override's show was dubbed from she ''was'' male, it's not completely surprising.
• Leslie from Flaky Pastry has an ambiguous name, dresses androgynously, works as a barmaid (complete with skirt and tube top) and is surprised when the girl he asks out thinks he is gay.
• In this Sidekick Girl strip, Chris looks like a tall, skinny girl, but in the next strip is revealed to be a young man with very long hair.
• This Sluggy Freelance strip invokes this trope thanks to an alien race where the males look an awful lot like human females. Rather than being grossed out that they were drooling over a guy, Torg and Riff keep right on staring at his breasts. "Could you jump up and down for us, mister?"
• Cale from Looking for Group is often referred to as "she" by Richard when the latter is still getting to know him, even after he's well aware that Cale is male.
• "Your mom looks like a girl. Ooo."
• In Gold Coin Comics, Theo, whose job class (healer) is normally reserved for girls, is mistaken for a woman when Lance first meets him.
• Randy, who is male, once was miss April on a calendar.
• Kano, the main character of Kagerou. The artist has made specific note of his "absurd girl hair".
• Eutropia of Amazoness — it's actually a plot point.
• Chovek, a minor character in Inhuman. The fact that he's pink doesn't help.
• Lampshaded heavily and hilariously in Chasing the Sunset, as Leaf is so girly that it often takes ages for someone meeting him to realize he's a guy. But then, he's an elf, so bishiness is pretty much par for the course.
• The Order of the Stick's Vaarsuvius. Maybe.
• In spite of being an adult male well into adulthood, Vinci of Vinci and Arty is often mistaken for being a female, at one point being mistaken for a pregnant woman in labor when pulled over by a cop. It Makes Sense in Context.
• He often combines it with Older than They Look, too. How about being mistaken for a little girl?
• Meet Dubious Company's Elator Later on a drunk Tiren braids his hair with magic hairties that won't undo. Then this happens and this.
• Unwinder Tall Comics: Dr. Minivan, after losing his hair (for science), buys a wig to hide his baldness. The wig is so long that he gets mistaken for a woman. When this happens in a public restroom, he panics and hides in a stall, and tries to figure out how to get back out of the restroom without incurring further confusion. This takes so long that he grows a beard. Problem solved!

    Web Original 

• Izael from the The Gamers Alliance is often confused for a girl because of his looks.
• Axel from Demyx Time enjoys mocking Marluxia for this. Inverted when Demyx firmly believes that Larxene is a man.
• In the Machinima of Dissidia: Final Fantasy called "Real Men", there's a segment where Leon states, "Only a real man hangs out with the ladies." Cloud responds with, "You know that's a guy, right?" but Leon firmly states that it's a chick, until he finally decides to ask the man/lady in question, who is Bartz. Bartz replies, "Oh yes, I am male-I mean, FE-male." Leon's response?

Leon: "...Oh you're dead... *gunclick*"

• Phase, in the Whateley Universe, looks and sounds so girly that he's given up and dresses in mannish girl's clothes that fit him, while he tries to find a way to change himself back to a manly guy. Even in pants and heavy coat, he still gets tabbed as a girl, much to his disgust.
• More than a few viewers of this demotivational poster believed the photo on the right to be of Emma Watson with a new short haircut. Both photos are of Justin Bieber.
• Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series parodies this trend in Yu-Gi-Oh!:

Marik: Foolish fools! There are no women in Yu-Gi-Oh!, only extremely girly men! And I am the girliest of them all!

Pegasus: Keep telling yourself that.

• Marik and Bakura are frequently mistaken for a woman. Duke and Yami are very pretty like women as well.
• Equestria Chronicles has Shiloh, who looks like a filly and has been mistaken for one on multiple occasions.
• Beret Swirl invokes this trope to get free drinks.

    Western Animation 

• Home Movies - Brendon comes home to find his mom and her boss looped on wine. On seeing him the boss shouts "Well, look at you! What a perfectly adorable little young lady!". Brendon anxiously replies "Ah...well...I'm not so little...". Brendon is considered to be kind of girly by lots of folks, including his friends.
• Nermal from Garfield and Friends.
• In Nermal's pawsteps is Snooky Wookums from Krypto The Superdog.
• Skwisgaar Skwigelf is tall and thin, with long hair, large lips and very nice butt. He does not like it when you call him a lady.
• In an episode of Johnny Bravo, Johnny is at the beach when he approaches what appears to a woman in a bikini, but as soon as the person turns around, it turns out to be a slender man with long hair in a speedo.

Johnny: Whoa! I thought you were a chick!

    Real Life 

• Stylistically, it was common for painters in the 1700's to portray young boys as looking almost female. The fact that they wore dresses as children didn't help either...The second from the left is actually a boy◊.
• Yoshiki Hayashi, again - because he has been confused offstage in pics at events unrelated to his band.
• Mustapha Pasha, the Ottoman supreme commander.
• John Robinson in Lords Of Dogtown.
• The top 25 men who look like old lesbians. So that's why Mike Myers hides behind so much make-up.
• In a really truly depressing real life example, one of the victims believed to have been killed by the real-life Monster of Florence was a young male German tourist, traveling with another male friend. It's believed that they were mistaken for the killer's more usual targets, a heterosexual couple alone in their car, because of the one man's slight build and long blond hair.
• Jaye Davidson.
• Jamie Campbell Bower. He is scheduled to play young Gellert Grindelwald, lover then enemy of Albus Dumbledore, in the last Harry Potter films. However, it was never stated that Grindelwald was gay, too...
• Chris "leave Britney alone" Crocker. No, seriously
• Somewhere between this and Cross-Dressing Voices : Haydn's Die Schopfung (The Creation). The oratorio has three angelic soloists. Gabriel is played by a soprano.
• The Venture Bros. co-creator Doc Hammer is self-admittedly a very feminine-looking guy. Ironically, he does the extremely masculine voice for Dr. Girlfriend. When asked at a con whether or not he would do Dr. Girlfriend despite her manly voice. Doc answered in the affirmative, then turned it around:

"Would you do me if I had a really sweet girl voice? I'm telling you, from behind, it doesn't make much of a difference!"

• Quite of few of the guys in this news report on the "Teen Werewolves" phenomenon, especially their unofficial leader.

• Andrej Pejic◊, male model. Once went down the runway in a kooky Gaultier wedding dress◊ and by God did he pull it off.
• Seconded. This guy is the ultimate embodiment of this trope.
• In fact, a topless cover of his on a magazine was banned for being too feminine.
• He recently appeared in an ad for push-up bra◊, the company that makes it using the "If a dude looks good in it, it must be good!" strategy. And my god dooes he look good in it.

• German actor Sandro Lohmann◊.
• Persian Crown Prince Abbas Mirza Qajar◊ did some very manly exploits, notably fighting the Russians during the Napoleonic Wars and afterwards and having 26 sons, but paintings of him have him with big doe eyes, rosy cheeks, and flowing dark hair. Even after he grew a thick, manly beard, he still was quite slender, and the tight robes he wore did not help.
• Ryosuke Yamada is kawaii in a girly way

Zinnia Jones, from YouTube, doesn't just look female he sounds female to. Addressed in this video from back before he grew his hair long and started wearing female clothing