History Main / NoBiologicalSex

** ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'' references the Jewish tradition of female pronouns being used to refer to God in some instances by having God as the burning bush speak with a primarily male voice (provided by Val Kilmer--[[TalkingToHimself the same person who voices the character God is talking to]]) with a whispery female voice layered into it. They had also originally planned to have a third voice, that of a child, added into the mix to further the ambiguity (the combination turned out to be way too demonic-sounding, so it was dropped).

* ''VideoGame/IWasATeenageExocolonist: When Sol and their peers undergo puberty, it's possible for them to skip it entirely because they're [[BarbieDollAnatomy "a doll down there".]]

* In ''[[http://www.choiceofgames.com/dragon/ Choice of Dragon]]'' when given the choice of gender, you can choose neither, unknown, or simply refuse to answer.

* [[Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh Enkidu]] from ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' (first appearing in ''Literature/FateStrangeFake'') is, technically speaking, a lump of clay given life by the gods who copied the appearance of [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold the divine harlot Shamhat]] who was sent to teach him about the world, but with the form he took showing more physical ambiguity that makes telling his sex very difficult by sight alone, and he's described as being [[OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous extremely beautiful and eerie at the same time]]. The English translation decided to use "they" as a pronoun to reflect this.

* The Super Mutants in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' appear and sound masculine, but were all rendered sexless by the FEV mutation process. Some of them were indeed female when they were human. This only applies to the Capital Wasteland Super Mutants, every other known example still has the primary genitalia but the females do lack breasts.
* Cloud of Darkness, as seen in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII'' and ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'', appears female (particularly in the latter) and is referred to with female pronouns--but as the name implies, she's just the physical form of a literal cloud of darkness. She actually refers to herself with "We," [[RoyalWe apparently including sentient tentacles in that]]. Therefore, she can't be said to ''be'' female.
* The dragons in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' reproduce alone. Any adult dragon can have children without a partner, and while the only romantic pairings we see are male-pronoun-using/female-pronoun-using, it's eventually confirmed that the entire concept of gender and sex is something they go with to make the humans happy and it has no foundation in their society. The difference between a male dragon and a female dragon is literally just whether they want to be called "he" or "she" when dealing with humans.
* Bramimond from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'' lost his/her/its entire identity, including gender, as a result of practicing dark magic, so Athos refers to Bramimond as "it" rather than "he" or "she."

* Aigis, of ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'', is [[RobotGirl an android]] that was only built to look human because it made her a more effective weapon and because it was necessary for her to channel a Persona (Personas are created from human thoughts and emotions, so if she didn't think of herself as a human, she couldn't use one), so anything that didn't serve that purpose wasn't added to her design. While she's considered female based on her appearance, she doesn't necessarily identify as such given that she's made of metal and has no sex organs, though with a female protagonist she does worry about IncompatibleOrientation and accepts being referred to as female.

* The Naaru of ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' are treated a bit like angels are in a religious context--they get referred to with male pronouns because [[ItIsDehumanizing calling them "it" would be insulting]], but not being even humanoid, the few we've seen appear entirely sexless.

* [[HumanoidAlien Namekians]] in ''Manga/DragonBall'' are often assumed to be [[OneGenderRace all male]], but their [[TrulySingleParent method of reproduction]] places them pretty firmly into this category.
* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' the situation with Legendary Pokémon can be rather confusing. Supposedly, most have no gender, but many of them speak with voices that suggest male or female. Lugia actually had a hatchling, a baby Lugia (which is impossible in the video game) suggesting the adult Lugia was female, but exactly what its mate was, nobody ever discovered (or even ''tried'' to discover).
* In ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'', Alpha prefers to be referred to as a woman, but she has no real sex as an ArtificialIntelligence and can freely change the way she appears to Akira as she pleases.

* In ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'', [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angels]] technically have no gender, and in practice have features of both men and women to further up the strangeness of their forms. [[spoiler:This of course only applies to ''natural'' angels, artificial ones and [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence espers who achieve the power needed for that level]] can still technically be known by their original genders]]. There was also that time that [[spoiler:ArchangelGabriel]] ended being forcibly and accidentally brought down to earth and incarnated into a female form, but that didn't do the angel's sanity any favors.
* Rimuru Tempest of ''LightNovel/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'' has this, being a slime. He identifies as male mainly because his past life memories makes him see himself as such. Even when Rimuru gets a human form, it is still genderless (being a case of BarbieDollAnatomy In-Universe), though it visually leans towards the feminine since it came from assimilating the dying female hero Shizue. He ''could'' give himself actual sexual organs if he tried to (and in fact actually played around with making doppelgangers with more obvious masculine and feminine forms), but sees doing so full-time as [[CelibateHero a waste of time]].

Oddly, this trope seems to rarely apply to robots and MechanicalLifeforms, who have bodies and {{personality chip}}s designed around either male [[{{fembot}} or female]] parameters even though, ''by definition'', these beings have no biological sex. However, this can be chalked up to people wanting to avoid the UncannyValley when designing {{artificial intelligence}}s.

* In ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'', [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angels]] technically have no gender, and in practice have features of both men and women [[UncannyValley to further up the strangeness of their forms]]. [[spoiler:This of course only applies to ''natural'' angels, artificial ones and [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence espers who achieve the power needed for that level]] can still technically be known by their original genders]]. There was also that time that [[spoiler:ArchangelGabriel]] ended being forcibly and accidentally brought down to earth and incarnated into a female form, but that didn't do the angel's sanity any favors.

* Replicas in ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' are sexless by default due to being {{Artificial Human}}s, but mimic the gender of those they are replicating, such as the male Riku Replica. [[spoiler:Xion is a special case as she is a faceless doll created from the male Sora's memories, and is eventually supposed to become a perfect copy of him, changing in appearance depending on who sees her in the interim: Roxas sees a shadow of the female Kairi (giving her black hair), while others only see her as an "[[ItIsDehumanizing it]]". Since Roxas was the first person to interact with her as a person, however, his perception of her gender rubs off on her, causing her to identify as female even as her appearance changes into Sora.]]

* The alternate timeline Morlocks in Creator/StephenBaxter's ''[[Literature/TheTimeMachine Time Machine]]'' sequel ''The Time Ships'' have no sex and reproduce artificially. The main Morlock character is still referred to as "he", though.

* In ''Literature/{{Touch 2017}},'' [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent goblins]] are noted as looking like weirdly androgynous humans. It's eventually revealed that they're a weird offshoot of [[OurElvesAreDifferent elves]] created from mushrooms, of all things, and that they have no genders, reproducing via spores.

** The {{Cthulhumanoid}} Illithid are hermaphroditic and reproduce by spawning tadpoles, which they [[TheAssimilator insert in the brains of helpless humanoids to metamorphose them into new Illithid]].

* Most Franchise/{{Pokemon}} from Generation II and beyond have sexes, but some do not. Some of these sexless Pokémon can breed with the shape-shifting Ditto. Most [[PhysicalGod Legendary and Mythical Pokémon]] are genderless and cannot be bred; though, even Legends that do have a gender cannot breed. Non-legendary genderless Pokémon are usually artificial or extraterrestrial in origin. Manaphy is unusual in that it is genderless and a Mythical Pokémon, yet it is capable of producing offspring with Ditto -- creating Phione, who is also sexless but unable to evolve into Manaphy.
* The early ''VideoGame/{{Ultima}}'' games had sex and gender on a slider, so you could be male, female, or anywhere between the two.
* ''VideoGame/{{Furcadia}}'' allows you to make characters who are "neuter," in addition to the standard males and females, who have their own portraits. All three sex options use the same sprites.
* The two requisite wise mystic thingies in the ''VideoGame/EccoTheDolphin'' series, the Asterite and the Guardian, are a sexless giant strand of DNA and genderless giant psychic crystal, respectively.
* In the Konami series ''VideoGame/{{Parodius}}'', the scoreboard asks your gender. They're prepared for boys, girls, everything in between AND everything neither here nor there.
* The creator of ''VideoGame/NightsIntoDreams'', Creator/YujiNaka, confirmed that all of the dream characters are sexless, and it's really up to the dreamer's idea as to what gender--if any--they are. [=NiGHTS=] is intentionally made to look [[AmbiguousGender androgynous]], and in ''VideoGame/NiGHTSJourneyOfDreams'', [=NiGHTS=] was given a voice actress who sounded both like a young boy and a slightly older girl at the same time, yet is referred to with masculine pronouns.

* The Naaru of ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' are treated a bit like angels are in a religious context--they get referred to with male pronouns because [[ItIsDehumanizing calling them "it" would be insulting]], but not being even humanoid, the few we've seen appear entirely sexless.
** As of ''Legion'' at least one Naaru has been identified as 'she:' [[https://wow.gamepedia.com/Xe%27ra Xe'ra, also known as the Light Mother.]] Xe'ra speaks with a female voice and is said to have been the progenitor of the other Naaru (at least one, O'ros, is identified as being her descendant) but it's unlikely their genesis had anything in common with human biological reproduction.
* Cloud of Darkness, as seen in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII'' and ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'', appears female (particularly in the latter) and is referred to with female pronouns--but as the name implies, she's just the physical form of a literal cloud of darkness. She actually refers to herself with "We," [[RoyalWe apparently including sentient tentacles in that]]. Therefore, she can't be said to ''be'' female.
* In ''[[http://www.choiceofgames.com/dragon/ Choice of Dragon]]'' when given the choice of gender, you can choose neither, unknown, or simply refuse to answer.

* Aigis, of ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'', is [[RobotGirl an android]] that was only built to look human because it made her a more effective weapon and because it was necessary for her to channel a Persona (Personas are created from human thoughts and emotions, so if she didn't think of herself as a human, she couldn't use one), so anything that didn't serve that purpose wasn't added to her design. While she's considered female based on her appearance, she doesn't necessarily identify as such given that she's made of metal and has no sex organs, though with a female protagonist she does worry about IncompatibleOrientation and accepts being referred to as female.
* Replicas in ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' are sexless by default due to being {{Artificial Human}}s, but mimic the gender of those they are replicating, such as the male Riku Replica. [[spoiler:Xion is a special case as she is a faceless doll created from the male Sora's memories, and is eventually supposed to become a perfect copy of him, changing in appearance depending on who sees her in the interim: Roxas sees a shadow of the female Kairi (giving her black hair), while others only see her as an "[[ItIsDehumanizing it]]". Since Roxas was the first person to interact with her as a person, however, his perception of her gender rubs off on her, causing her to identify as female even as her appearance changes into Sora.]]
* [[WordOfGod According to Eiji Aonuma]], Fi in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'', [[https://web.archive.org/web/20100805001433/http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/article.php?id=19093 is a feminine figure]], but doesn't really have a sex ''per se''. Fitting, since she's [[LivingWeapon a sword]]. [[spoiler:Given that Ghirahim is also revealed to be a LivingWeapon akin to Fi as well, the same can most definitely be applied to "him."]]
* Many of the viral monsters in ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' are sexless--Hunters are built to fight, not reproduce, for instance, and that extends to the Supreme Hunter despite it being humanoid (sometimes extremely humanoid). [[spoiler:This also extends to ''the player character'', Alex Mercer, who seems to identify as male, but is technically just a person-shaped virus and a shapeshifter with no truly fixed form or means of sexual reproduction. The Blackwatch persistently refer to him as "it."]]

* Vessels [[spoiler:(including the player character)]] from ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'' have no biological sex or gender identity due to being [[spoiler:artificial constructs created by the Pale King as an attempt to create a living thing with no mind or will, a being that is completely "empty" in order to contain the vengeful godlike entity known as The Radiance, who manifested in bugs minds and dreams and caused the infection that led to the eventual downfall of Hallownest.]]
* {{Orochi}} of ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'', while commonly referred to as a "he," technically is sexless, as it's implied that the entity's appearance is determined by whichever follower of his Orochi decides to reincarnate into and that his true form is the eight-headed serpent dragon of Japanese folklore. His incarnation at the end of ''[=KOF '97=]'', where he resurrects using Chris, is his most well-known depiction, but ''The King of Fighters: Kyo'' and official artwork viewable in ''[='98=]'' clearly portray Orochi [[AttractiveBentGender as a woman]] during the fated battle that ended with [[SealedEvilInACan Orochi's sealing]].
* The Super Mutants in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' appear and sound masculine, but were all rendered sexless by the FEV mutation process. Some of them were indeed female when they were human. This only applies to the Capital Wasteland Super Mutants, every other known example still has the primary genitalia but the females do lack breasts.
* [[spoiler: [[{{TheDragon}} Luna]]]] of ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankSizeMatters''. She's built to resemble a little girl but is actually [[spoiler: a genderless warship/puppet built by the BigBad to kidnap Ratchet. It helps that ''Luna'' gets a male voice shortly before it's defeat]].

* According to WordOfGod, Toads from ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' are a biologically sexless species who adopt gender identities when they become adults. The majority of them present as male, but the existence of Toadette suggests at least some identify as female.
* Mimit from ''VideoGame/{{Temtem}}'' is genderless, allowing it to breed with both males and females of other species.
* ''Franchise/DragonAge'': Spirits of the Fade are technically genderless. Even Desire Demons only appear to be female to make tempting mortals easier, and, while not seen in-game, they are mentioned to take male forms if that would work better on their targets.
** Shale and presumably any other golems from ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' due to their bodies being entirely artificial. Their souls, on the other hand, are implied to keep some concept of gender in some cases, [[spoiler:and Shale is quite surprised to find out that she was originally a dwarven woman.]]

* Almost all aliens from ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown''. Some are robots, but most are [[ExpendableClone disposable clones]] grown in vats send to die against the titular XCOM. When sending cloned CannonFodder mooks [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke genetically modified for combat]], why bother giving them an obvious weak point like [[GroinAttack genital organs]]?

* The developers of ''VideoGame/CityOfTitans'' have indicated there will be an option to make androgynous characters.
* [[Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh Enkidu]] from ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' (first appearing in ''Literature/FateStrangeFake'') is, technically speaking, a lump of clay given life by the gods who copied the appearance of [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold the divine harlot Shamhat]] who was sent to teach him about the world, but with the form he took showing more physical ambiguity that makes telling his sex very difficult by sight alone, and he's described as being [[OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous extremely beautiful and eerie at the same time]]. The English translation decided to use "they" as a pronoun to reflect this.
* Itherael from ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' is the only one of the angels who's specifically referred to as being sexless, though he has a rather masculine voice and is referred to with male pronouns by others.
* Due to being a [[MushroomMan sentient fungus]], Miko from ''VideoGame/{{Battleborn}}'' has no biological sex in the same sense as animals and above have.
* The monsters of ''VideoGame/{{Evolve}}'' are genderless, though the humans refer to them with gendered pronouns. This is because, though they're organic and alive, [[spoiler: the monsters are nothing more than physical bodies made by an extradimensional race and have no need to reproduce.]]
* Artificial Intelligence program EDI of ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' technically has no gender but utilizes a voice in a range that listeners would categorize as feminine. In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' EDI transfers into a {{fembot}} body and the crew identifies and interacts with the anthropomorphized program as a female being, referring to EDI as her and she.
* K1-B0, or Keebo, from ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'' is this as [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot the Ultimate Robot]]. While the others refer to him with he/him/his pronouns from the start, [[DoesNotLikeMen Tenko]] asks him in Chapter 2 if he's male or female in order to gauge whether she can like him or not, and his response is that he honestly hasn't thought about it before and thus doesn't know. He appears to have BarbieDollAnatomy, but he also still wears "underwear".
* Although the non-human characters in ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft}}'' have gender identities, they do not have any human sexual characteristics (quite realistically). Their genders are made clear via voice acting, which is in many cases intended to be telepathic communication. For the Zerg, their gender largely has to do with their function within the hive: and the default Zerglings are entirely sexless (and also have no voice). Brood Mothers like Zagara are a OneGenderRace, all female and capable of breeding with every other Zerg or parthenogenisis. Some have speculated there may be females of Abathur's species, but too little is known. Abathur himself seems to regard sex and gender as mostly useless concepts unless you actually intend to breed. So it's also possible that his species is sexless. For the Protoss, while they DO have sexes and sexual reproduction: they are not capable of doing it via the human method.
* In the ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' series, while the Tyrant line of monsters look predominantly like a male human they are, according to an ApocalypticLog, either cloned to be genderless outright or have had their reproductive organs surgically removed. If there's one ''good'' thing [[NebulousEvilOrganization The Umbrella Corporation]] did it was making sure these often-naked creatures weren't going all [[Film/{{Watchmen}} Dr. Manhattan]] on us while we fought for our lives.
* Although Seth from ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' has a male name and distinctly male voice, Capcom has stated that, as a robot, Seth cannot be said to be truly male or female. Whenever referring to Seth, official Capcom statements noticeably avoid using any gender pronouns.
* ''VideoGame/MarchenForestMylneAndTheForestGift'': One of the mushroom being's quiz questions is, with the correct answer being [[spoiler:true]].
--> Is it true that mushrooms have no gender?\\
[Nope.] [It's true!]
* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterWorld'': Background lore establishes this for Nergigante. The species has no genitals but instead reproduces by implanting a specialized thorn into its prey. Over time the thorn will develop into a genetic clone of the parent. This process requires a large amount of bio-energy which is why Nergigante preys almost exclusively on other Elder Dragons.
* The dragons in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' reproduce alone. Any adult dragon can have children without a partner, and while the only romantic pairings we see are male-pronoun-using/female-pronoun-using, it's eventually confirmed that the entire concept of gender and sex is something they go with to make the humans happy and it has no foundation in their society. The difference between a male dragon and a female dragon is literally just whether they want to be called "he" or "she" when dealing with humans.

* The [[BlobMonster Smooze]] from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' is confirmed to be genderless, yet it is sometimes referred to as male.
* Done on the Disney show ''WesternAnimation/LloydInSpace'', where one episode featured an alien with no sex. It gains one of its choosing once it hits alien puberty. The episode ends with it [[TheUnreveal refusing to reveal which one it chose.]] The alien also says "you'll know when I get a crush on one of you".
* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'':
** Other than the use of the male pronoun for convenience, there's no gender baggage that GIR has to deal with. He already has [[TheFool enough problems]] to deal with.
** This also appears to be the case with Irkens, because they are so far past TheSingularity that they are reproduced only by machines [[spoiler: and it's implied that said machines are the real Irkens, their physical bodies being just mindless meat puppets to carry said machines around]], though they do have genders.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' has [=BMO=] (aka Beemo), a [[AnimateInanimateObject living]] video game console. [[AmbiguousGender Some characters refer to Beemo as female, while some refer to it as male]]. WordOfGod revealed Beemo to be genderless, though BMO seems to consider itself male based on "BMO Noire" and the "Graybles" episodes. In the GenderFlipped universe, BMO looks completely identical. Oddly NEPTR, the other robot in the series, is always referred to as male, likely because he [[HasTwoMommies Has Two Dads]].

* ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'': According to Craig Bartlett, the Bortronians are neither male nor female. Despite this, they use pronouns like he/him or she/her for convenience's sake. The only indication given in the series that Bortronians don't really have gender is when Jet calls Carrot and Celery "Parent 1 and 2" instead of "mom and dad" in "Jet Cooks Dinner", showing that he's attempting to adapt to Earth's gendered terms.
* Aku, the demonic BigBad of ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' predominantly appears in a male form with a deep and imposing voice, but is really just a black mass literally MadeOfEvil older than the universe. He's appeared to Jack as a woman before and [[FoeRomanceSubtext grew closer to the Samurai]] just to mess with him. [[spoiler:It does turn out that he can procreate when the High Priestess of the Aku cult consumes his "essence", creating seven half-human, half-demon hybrids.]]

* ''Film/{{Glorious}}'': Ghat speaks with a male voice, but admits that he's technically neither male nor female.

* In ''Film/SeedOfChucky'', Glen(da) was born a living doll with BarbieDollAnatomy, and isn't sure which gender to favor, if any. Chucky and Tiffany spend most of the movie arguing over their kid's gender.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': Most {{golem}}s referred to with male pronouns, for the usual reasons. In ''Literature/GoingPostal'', one was arbitrarily declared female (and named Gladys) because Ms. Macclariat took exception to anything called "he" cleaning the lady's bathrooms. When questioned about this in ''Literature/MakingMoney'', Moist points out that the 'default' golems aren't any more male than Gladys is female.

* ''Literature/TheCulture'': Yime Nsokyi from novel ''Surface Detail'' has deliberately had herself neutered. However, as everyone seems to identify her as female and the narration always does the same, it seems the purpose was more to eliminate sexuality than anything else.

** ''Literature/{{Diaspora}}'' features a society of posthuman software people who rarely choose to be gendered, along with invented gender-neutral pronouns (ve, vis and ver) first used in ''Distress'', where meat-humans sometimes elect to become "asex." (Some others exaggerate their secondary sexual characteristics, and become "umale" and "ufem." Still, others make a sort of blue-and-orange gender binary called "imale" and "ifem," which uses nonstandard gender cues.)

* Carolyn Ives Gilman's ''Literature/{{Halfway Human}}'': On Gammadis, the modified-human inhabitants have no sex until puberty. Some people never go through puberty and remain unsexed all their lives, being known as "blands." Blands are considered to be not fully human and are widely believed to be mentally deficient (the reader knows this isn't true because the protagonist is one); they live segregated and work as servants.

* Golems on Terry Pratchett's Literature/{{Discworld}}. Most are referred to with male pronouns, for the usual reasons. In ''Literature/GoingPostal'' one was arbitrarily declared female (and named Gladys) because Ms. Macclariat took exception to anything called "he" cleaning the lady's bathrooms. When questioned about this in ''Literature/MakingMoney'', Moist points out that the 'default' golems aren't any more male than Gladys is female.

* The [[FantasyPantheon Ainur]] of Creator/JRRTolkien's works. As pure spirits, they have no biological ''sex'' beyond that of whatever form they've taken at the time, but explicitly do have gender identities (or at least, identify themselves in a way comparable to mortal gender). They are also capable of sexual reproduction with non-Ainur species in the standard biological manner appropriate to their body type.
* Similarly, in C. S. Lewis's Literature/SpaceTrilogy, the Oyarsa (basically guardian angels, Earth's being Lucifer) of Mars and Venus can be described as masculine and feminine, respectively, but only because these genders arose from intelligent life imitating them. The other Oyarsas do not conform to either, but each have their own genders, out of seven total.
* The trope is {{lampshaded}} in the original book of ''Literature/TheBraveLittleToaster'' in regards to its [[EverythingTalks title character]]. The movie [[AmbiguousGender never outright addresses the question of gender]], and occasionally uses masculine pronouns for the toaster, but the toaster's sex, at least, can be assumed to be neutral.

* Yime Nsokyi from the [[Literature/TheCulture Culture]] novel ''Surface Detail'' has deliberately had herself neutered. However, as everyone seems to identify her as female and the narration always does the same, it seems the purpose was more to eliminate sexuality than anything else.
* Chieri, the dominant native race of Literature/{{Darkover}} are hermaphroditic but some of their hybrid offspring with humans are "emmasca" or neuter.

* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' are technically sexless, being mere data, but their manifestations often take the form of specific creatures with genders for purely aesthetic reasons, something Renamon explains to Rika in ''Anime/DigimonTamers''. Either way, they do not reproduce sexually. Apparently not the case in ''Anime/DigimonFusion'', which doesn't hold back with the implications of sexual relationships between Digimon. One of the supporting mons in Taiki's team even has parents who appear on-screen, and the BigBadDuumvirate [[spoiler:are ''brothers''.]] Ironically, [[HornyDevils Lilithmon]] is made fun of at one point for not having a boyfriend.

** Necrons, being robot skeletons, are similar. The Necrontyr, the now-extinct species that was [[UnwillingRobiticisation converted into the Necrons]], evidently did have the usual two sexes as most sapient species do in-universe, but are now almost entirely mindless combat robots. The few that do still retain their sentience and memories identify with their original genders, even if they no longer have their original bodies.
** While they may behave otherwise, the daemons and gods of Chaos are all sexless entities. As they're effectively constructs of mortal thought, biological ideas like sexes are meaningless to them. While most of the Chaos Gods are most often seen as male, Slaanesh, God(dess) of Excess and Lust, display this most blatantly. It's common for their daemons to be explicitly hermaphroditic, usually taking forms physically split down the middle with male characteristics on one side and female ones on the other. It is said in-universe that some of the various religions that unknowingly venerage the Chaos Gods have seen them as different genders as well.

** While they may behave otherwise, the daemons and gods of Chaos are all sexless entities. As they're effectively constructs of mortal thought, biological ideas like sexes are meaningless to them. While most of the Chaos Gods are most often seen as male, Slaaness, God(dess) of Excess and Lust, display this most blatantly. It's common for their daemons to be explicitly hermaphroditic, usually taking forms physically split down the middle with male characteristics on one side and female ones on the other.

** Necrons, being robot skeletons, are similar. The Necrontyr, the now-extinct species that was [[UnwillingRobitization converted into the Necrons]], evidently did have the usual two sexes as most sapient species do in-universe, but are now almost entirely mindless combat robots. The few that do still retain their sentience and memories identify with their original genders, even if they no longer have their original bodies.

** Necrons, being robot skeletons, are similar. The sentient ones are generally referred to with male pronouns, if only because they look and ([[EvilSoundsDeep especially) sound]] masculine by human standards. It's unknown what, if any, genders or reproductive methods the organic aliens they were created from originally had.

Finally, Intersex people ''have'' sexual characteristics, but they may be [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex#Signs ambiguous]] or mixed, not fitting into either sex category. Characters like this sometimes run into PronounTrouble if they don't identify with a specific gender (this is because options such as "zhe", "hir", and singular "they" only came into wide usage in recent times after pressure from gender rights groups).

** ''Literature/{{Diaspora}}'' features a society of posthuman software people who rarely choose to be gendered, along with invented gender-neutral pronouns (ve, vis and ver) first used in ''Distress'', where meat-humans sometimes elect to become "asex." (Some others crank their secondary sexual characteristics UpToEleven, and become "umale" and "ufem." Still, others make a sort of blue-and-orange gender binary called "imale" and "ifem," which uses nonstandard gender cues.)

* The Smooze from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' is confirmed to be genderless, yet it is sometimes referred to as male.

* Franchise/{{Digimon}} of ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' are technically sexless, being mere data, but their manifestations often take the form of specific creatures with genders for purely aesthetic reasons, something [[Anime/DigimonTamers Renamon]] explains to Ruki. Either way, they do not reproduce sexually. Apparently not the case in Anime/DigimonFusion, which doesn't hold back with the implications of sexual relationships between Digimon. One of the supporting mons in Taiki's team even has parents who appear on-screen, and the BigBadDuumvirate [[spoiler:are ''brothers''.]] Ironically, [[HornyDevils Lilithmon]] is made fun of at one point for not having a boyfriend.

* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' the situation with Legendary Pokémon can be rather confusing. Supposedly, they have no gender, but many of them speak with voices that suggest male or female. Lugia actually had a hatchling, a baby Lugia (which is impossible in the video game) suggesting the adult Lugia was female, but exactly what its mate was, nobody ever discovered (or even ''tried'' to discover).

* ''LightNovel/OurHomesFoxDeity'''s Kuugen is a {{Kitsune}} and too old to remember their original sex, if they ever had one, and just switches between male and female forms on a whim. Justified in that Kitsune are spirits in the first place, and tied to the ''kami'' Inari (see below).

Finally, Intersex people ''have'' sexual characteristics, but they may be [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex#Signs ambiguous]] or mixed, not fitting into either sex category. Characters like this sometimes run into PronounTrouble if they don't identify with a specific gender, even though options such as "zhe", "hir", and singular "they" exist.

* All angels in the expanded Vertigo universe, which means they've made several appearances in ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'', ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' and their respective spin-offs. This is especially confusing, as they are still somehow able to have sex.