History Main / GenderRestrictedAbility

* This is a major plot-point in ''{{Mnemosyne}}''. [[spoiler:When a time spore enters a woman's body, she becomes immortal. When a time spore enters a man's body, he becomes a mindless [[WingedHumanoid winged]] killer whose survival prospects are rather grim. Yeah, sucks to be a guy...]]

** And to further make the point: Odin is a male witch. (He wanted to learn all the magic of the world...) This means exactly what you think it means.
*** Loki makes fun of Odin's manliness for learning witchcraft from his wife Freya. Odin then shoots back by reminding Loki of the details of his horse Slepnir's birth, and the 12 years Loki spent on Midgard trapped in the form of a milkmaid.
** Gay porn writers might want to start doing Norse mythology movies.
*** Food for Thought: Loki's XanatosRoulette schemes leave him pregnant at least twice
*** So you want to add a CargoShip, too?

* In the ''AceAttorney'' series only Fey women can be mediums. This of corse helps AceAttorney pass the BechdelTest with flying colors.

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* ''[[ParallelTroubleAdventureDual Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure's]]'' giant robots can only be driven by female pilots, with one exception. [spoiler[Which is because the race that made them put them in gender lock for females only. . . except for the fact that the male pilot also is a male mech. It also restricted certain functions in the mechs as well.]]

* ''[[ParallelTroubleAdventureDual Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure's]]'' giant robots can only be driven by female pilots, with one exception.

* In some religions, whatever their traditional equivalent of magic was was restricted to those with natural creative potential. That is, females. [[FridgeLogic Which almost makes sense.]] While not the official theory, this troper could argue this is why, in many modern works, there are many more women of magical ability than men.
* Writing one's name in the snow.
** Petra from ''EndersGame'' disagrees: "It's harder for girls, it requires a lot more athletic activity, but we can do it."

* ''VampireTheRequiem'' features the Qedeshah bloodline, who originate from a group of temple prostitutes. Part of their bloodline-specific curse is that after joining the bloodline, they can only Embrace females. Attempts to Embrace men result in them experiencing agonising, incapacitating pain for 24 hours before they expire horribly, with the Qedeshah suffering a portion of this pain through the symoathetic connection of their vitae. Men are not prohibited from joining the bloodline from outside the lineage, but upon mixing their blood and opting in they are rendered sterile and unable to Embrace childer forever afterwards.

* ''VampireTheRequiem'' features the Qedeshah bloodline, whose origins lie in temple prostitutes. As a result, part of their bloodline-specific curse is that only women can be Embraced into the line; any attempts to Embrace men will not only fail, but leave the man in a state of unrelenting agony until he shortly expires.

* GGundam makes a minor point of this near the end, where [[spoiler: Ulube]] is reading over the research notes about the Devil Gundam, explaining why Wong wanted Allenby to be its core. It's justified that since the Devil Gundam was meant to be the ultimate lifeform, it requires an organism capable of creating life, a woman, as its core. According to the show, the ability to give birth makes women the "top of all living things" and have the most amount of energy.
* Intentionally subverted in {{Shitsurakuen}}. Only men are allowed to wield the Weapons, while women are forced to be their submissive Contracts that supplies the Weapons. The protagonist is seemingly a BigBad-approved SpannerInTheWorks, a girl with the determination to rescue the girls from their fate, given the tools necessary from the academy that instituted the male-dominating rules.

* [[ParallelTroubleAdventureDual Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure's]] giant robots can only be driven by female pilots, with one exception.
* Partial subversion in {{Claymore}}. Claymores are all women not because men can't be given the same yoma-infusion, but because it's a bad idea; women are statistically less likely to go insane and become Awakened Beings than the men given the same treatment (which is not to say it doesn't happen).

* In the AceAttorney series only Fey women can be mediums. This of corse helps AceAttorney pass the BechdelTest with flying colors.

* FireEmblem has female Dancers and male Bards, though they essentially do the same thing. In addition, only females can ride Pegasi, explained at one point as the weight (amusingly, generic enemy Pegasus knights count as male stats wise). Another explanation claims that it's because it's hard enough for a woman to get her Pegasus to trust, while a man is incapable of gaining a pegasus' trust.
** In the earlier games in the [[FireEmblemAkaneia Fire Emblem Akaneia series]] the enemy pegasus knights were male, but they appear to have been have {{Retcon}}ned out of the series as they're gone from the remake.

* In the later {{Wizardry}} games, The Lord class is male only, while the Valkyrie class is female only.

* {{Achaea}} features the Siren, a female-only race who eventually get the ability to charm others with their good looks as they level up.
* In BioShock, only female children under six can be implanted with ADAM slugs. This makes them invincible and able to puke up EVE serum. they also heal instantly (this is [[AwesomeButImpractical not as good as you think]], one fell down the stairs and broke both legs, which then healed cokeyed. the doctors had to re-break her legs several times to put them right). However, one researcher discovered that if you manage to restrain them and tear out the slug, you kill them instantly and get a huge shot of ADAM. Enter papa Frankestein...

* In SacredPie the sacred objects can only be used by men, regardless of species. This is a side effect from Lucifer creating them for his own use.

* In {{Trollz}}, only the females are able to wield magic. It wasn't always the case, but the BigBad's attempt to take the magic for himself made it so only girls could use it. Males are left to their physical and mental skills, though older Troll males are able to use magic, still.

** And to further make the point: Odin is a male witch. (He wanted to learn all the magic of the world...) This means exactly what you think it means.

* ''TheWotch'': Wotches cannot be male, and cannot even be [[GenderBender turned male]] by magic.

* {{Trollz}}: It appears that only the females (with their jeweled navels) are able to wield magic. Males are left to their physical and mental skills, though many have attempted to become magic users themselves.

** And to further make the point: Odin is a male witch. (He wanted to learn all the magic of the world...) This means exactly what you think it means. SoYeah.

* ''TheWotch'': Wotches cannot be male. Well... they can be ''[[GenderBender born]]'' male.