History Main / MonogenderMonsters

See also OneGenderRace, DesignatedGirlFight. Contrast FemaleMonsterReveal.

See also OneGenderRace, DesignatedGirlFight.

** In just about any fantasy setting, it is rare for female goblins, orcs, trolls, ogres, or giants to be mentioned. There are of course exceptions (such as {{Xanth}}, {{Shrek}}, and tabletop games run by particularly forward-minded {{Game Master}}s), but they tend to be rare.

*** The Forgotten Realms novel quotes an Orc proverb "If Gruumsh had intended females to lead, he would have given them bigger muscles."

** Pretty much played straight with ogres, though females are confirmed to exist, they have never been seen aside from a Halloween mask.

** Alternatively, it's not a stretch to assume that these AlwaysChaoticEvil races are so patriarchal that their females are mere chattel, kept back at home in the lair with the rest of the loot, and that's why we never see them out raiding villages and hassling Fellowships.
*** This wouldn't work very well with the fact that the orcs seem to strive for maximum efficiency in all things related to war. It wouldn't be efficient to completely exclude such a large population from the fighting force. It would sound more likely that there simply is little visual difference between male and female orcs, especially with all the armour they usually wear, to a human observer.

** [[spoiler:Close, but not quite. After ''Fallout 3'', there are two FEV strains: FEV-2 and EEV. FEV-2 created the Super Mutants of the first two games, who are usually dumb hulking brutes but many of them are intelligent and even genius, those still have some specific gender characteristics. EEV turns almost everyone into stupid cannibalistic AlwaysChaoticEvil berserkers that get stronger, dumber and bigger as they age, and all of them are asexual.]]

* [[InvertedTrope Inversion]]: SamusIsAGirl, yet all space pirates in ''{{Metroid}}'' are referred to as male. In fact, pretty much everything Samus fights is either male ([[TheDragon Ridley]], SpacePirates, [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever Kraid]]...) or gender-neutral (most of the wildlife, the titular creatures, robots...). Even [[EvilTwin Dark Samus and the SA-X]] technically have no genders. As for the Mother Brain, "she" seems to refer to "herself" as female in the manga, but "she's" a giant brain in a jar, so "she" may not count. The only enemy Samus ever fought who was definitely female was[[spoiler: Gandrayda]].
** [[spoiler: ... but only in her ShapeshifterDefaultForm]].

** The Male ones were called upon the Gay Fisheye and Biker Chick JunJun. The 5th season also had male Pharge which only makes sense due to Mamoru holding a true starseed and the starlights disguised as male (True Starseeds are normally only held by Sailor Senshi who are always women)

*** Don't forget the exclusively male River Gods.
**** Wouldn't it make sense for River Gods to be the male equivalent of Naiads? Just asking.

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* {{Pokemon}} has quite a few AlwaysMale monsters: The Tyrogue family, Tauros, Gallade, Volbeat, and Mothim.

* In {{Pokemon}}, the Jynx line, the Chansey line, and Miltank, Illumise, Wormadam, Frosslass, Kangaskhan, and Vespiquen.

** The "no boyfriends" thing applies to the monsters of Greco-Roman myth because most of them were unique freaks of nature, often directly descended from the gods or mutated into monstrous shapes by the gods. A better example might be the dryads (all female [[GeniusLoci tree spirits]]) or naiads (all female [[GeniusLoci water spirits]]).
*** Don't forget the exclusively male River Kings.
**** Wouldn't it make sense for River Kings to be the male equivalent of Naiads? Just asking.

** ... did this troper not read somewhere that all the Elites were in fact *female*? I don't recall reading any Halo, er, fanfic, so I can only presume that it's true...

** In just about any fantasy setting, it is rare for female goblins, orcs, trolls, ogres, or giants to be mentioned. There are of course exceptions (such as {{Xanth}}, {{Shrek}}, and tabletop games run by particularly forward-minded {{Game Master}}s, but they tend to be rare.

** Alternatively, it's not a stretch to assume that these AlwaysChaoticEvil races are so patriarchal that their females are mere chattel, kept back at home in the lair with the rest of the loot, and that's why we never see them out raiding villages and hassling Fellowships.

* In {{Pokemon}}, the Jynx line, the Chansey line, and Miltank, Illumise, Wormadam, Frosslass, Kangaskhan, and Vespiqueen.

* In ''TheGuyver'', no female zoanoids are ever featured (though a couple appeared in the American live-action movies).

Along with MonsterOfTheAesop there's a tendency for all the monsters in a given show to be men or women, rarely will there be a mixed bag. The exception is if the TheDragon or the BigBad are a different gender and deign to fight the heroes. And much like MonsterMisogyny applied in reverse, guy heroes will only fight guy monsters, and girl heroines will only fight girl monsters.

* WorldOfWarcraft has many different monster "races" some of which are completely monogendered including the all-female harpies.

* {{Pokemon}} has quite a few AlwaysMale monsters: The Tyrogue, Magby, Elekid, and Machop families come to mind.
** You're wrong about Magby, Elekid, and Machop; Those and their evolutions can be female, they just have a 75% chance of being male. As for more Pokemon who are actually always male, there's Tauros, Gallade, Volbeat, and Mothim.

* In {{Pokemon}}, Smoochum, Jynx, and Miltank.

** Alternatively, it's not a stretch to assume that these AlwaysChaoticEvil races are so patriarchal that their females are mere chattal, kept back at home in the lair with the rest of the loot, and that's why we never see them out raiding villages and hassling Fellowships.

** [[spoiler:Close, but not quite. After ''Fallout 3'', there are two FEV strains: FEV-2 and EEV. FEV-2 created the Super Mutants of the first two games, who are usually dumb hulking brutes but many of them are intelligent and even genious, those still have some specific gender characteristics. EEV turns almost everyone into stupid canibalistic AlwaysChaoticEvil berserkers that get stronger, dumber and bigger as they age, and all of them are asexual.]]

* All space pirates in ''{{Metroid}}'' are referred to as male.
** But SamusIsAGirl, so wouldn't that be an inversion? In fact, pretty much everything Samus fights is either male ([[TheDragon Ridley]], SpacePirates, [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever Kraid]]...) or gender-neutral (most of the wildlife, the titular creatures, robots...). Even [[EvilTwin Dark Samus and the SA-X]] tecknically have no genders. As for the Mother Brain, "she" seems to refer to "herself" as female in the manga, but "she's" a giant brain in a jar, so "she" probably doesn't count. The only enemy Samus ever fought who was definitely female was[[spoiler: Gandrayda]].