History Main / NonHumanNonBinary

* ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'': [[spoiler:Quaterine/Rin's]] gender [[ZigZaggedTrope is all over the place]], being described without pronouns by the manual and as 'she' for most of the story, looks like a woman, and identifies as a man if you play his route (said identification only happens after an UnsettlingGenderReveal). Said route's Good Ending also reveals that Rin belongs to a OneGenderRace of AngelicAliens, and that [[spoiler:Rin's brother is [[MobileSuitHuman a robot suit piloted by multitudes of tiny pink aliens]] that resemble Minions from ''Film/DespicableMe'' and implies this is the case for Rin's entire species, meaning Rin is possibly a HiveMind or a literal 'they' who identify as a 'he'.]]

Historically, many cultures have described people using a gender binary, in which everyone is strictly categorised as either "male" or "female", even though this over-simplification doesn't fit many people. This is not something that all cultures do, but it has been particularly rigidly enforced in European, American, and East Asian cultures. While this is slowly changing, both in our perceptions of our daily reality as well as in the media we consume, there still remains a great deal of prejudice against the very idea of being non-binary or transgender...

* ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'': Rebis, the FusionDance of Negative Man (Larry Trainor), Dr. Eleanor Poole, and the genderless Negative Spirit, who refers to themselves in the plural.
* Marvel's ComicBook/{{Loki}} is based on the Norse god of trickery, who is said to have change gender several times in the original myths. The comic book version is canonically genderfluid, being referred to by Odin as "My Child who is nether my Son nor my Daughter" during the [[ComicBook/LokiAgentOfAsgard Agent of Asgard]] run.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', Xavin is one of the few explicitly non-binary characters in the entire Creator/MarvelComics universe, and they also happen to be a Skrull.

* In ''ComicBook/RedHoodAndTheOutlaws'', the character DNA is a sentient DNA strand who prefers gender-neutral pronouns. They are a member of Generation Outlaw; a group of aspiring super-villains that ComicBook/LexLuthor assigned to Red Hood as his pupils.

* ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'': The alien [[spoiler:Rin's]] gender [[ZigZaggedTrope is all over the place]], being described without pronouns by the manual and as 'she' for most of the story, looks like a woman, and identifies as a man if you play his route (said identification only happens after an UnsettlingGenderReveal). Said route's Good Ending also reveals that Rin belongs to a OneGenderRace of angelic looking males, and that [[spoiler:Rin's brother is [[MobileSuitHuman a robot suit piloted by multitudes of tiny pink aliens]] that resemble Minions from ''Film/DespicableMe'' and implies this is the case for Rin's entire species, meaning Rin is possibly a HiveMind or a literal 'they' who identify as a 'he'.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'': The alien [[spoiler:Rin's]] gender [[ZigZaggedTrope is all over the place]], being described without pronouns by the manual and as 'she' for most of the story, looks like a woman, and identifies as a man if you play his route following an UnsettlingGenderReveal. Said route's Good Ending also reveals that Rin belongs to a OneGenderRace of angelic looking males, and that [[spoiler:Rin's brother is [[MobileSuitHuman a robot suit piloted by multitudes of tiny pink aliens]] that resemble Minions from ''Film/DespicableMe'' and implies this is the case for Rin's entire species, meaning Rin is possibly a HiveMind or a literal 'they' who identify as a 'he'.]]

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E5TheTimeMonster "The Time Monster"]], [[OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous Kronos]] has different appearences, including giant woman one. Speaking about their gender, Kronos says, "shapes mean nothing".

** Time Lords can change their gender during a [[TheNthDoctor regeneration]].

** The plane of [[SolarPunk Kaladesh]] features an entire race of genderless beings known as Aetherborn. Born as a byproduct of [[AppliedPhlebotinum aether]] refining, and they live extremely short lives, from 5 months to 3 years long. While side material notes that some of them choose to identify by gendered terms, the vast majority choose to identify as non-binary, as they have NoBiologicalSex.
** Karn is an odd case. A sentient silver {{golem}}, in the original stories Karn was always referred to with male pronouns. But after [[SoftReboot The Mending]], he showed up again, and WordOfGod has stated that while he accepts male pronouns from the various gendered being around him, in his mind he thinks of himself as non-binary, because gender is something for [[NoBiologicalSex biological beings to worry about.]]

** The J'naii from the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "The Outcast" are rigidly androgynous, reconditioning anyone who dares to be male or female.

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* ''Literature/MagnusChaseAndTheGodsOfAsgard'': Alex Fierro is a shapeshifter whose body tends to change based on her gender identity at the moment.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has several examples of this trope.

* Franchise/StarTrek:

** Time Lords can change their gender during a [[TheNthDoctor regeeneration]].

* The J'naii from the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "The Outcast" are rigidly androgynous, reconditioning anyone who dares to be male or female.
* The Vissians from the ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' episode "Cogenitor" are trinary, with the third gender (called a "[[TitleDrop cogenitor]]") making up a small percentage of the population and being treated as little more than breeding slaves.

* The main anthagonist of ''Manga/{{Devilman}}'' doesn't identify as exclusively male or female. [[spoiler:He's {{Satan}} and a {{Hermaphrodite}}]].

Enter the Non-Human Non-Binary. "Non-Human Non-Binary" refers to any non-human character or group of characters that do not identify as exclusively male or female -- they may identify as both or neither or these, or as different genders at different times. They may be aliens who have a completely different (if any) concept of gender as we understand it, or they may be totally absent of biological sex or natural gender tendency, such as robots. Yet despite not being exactly human, they have enough human traits that we can relate to them in some way.

* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' has the embodiment of Desire, who always appears as a flawlessly beautiful androgyne and is referred to as 'it' (a less offensive case, as Desire is an immortal personification of love and lust, not a biological human).

* In the ''Literature/{{Darkover}}'' series, the alien [[SpaceElves chieri]] have the ability to physically shift between male and female, or to occupy a middle ground. This is not a voluntary process however, which has had a negative impact on their birthrate since any two chieri may not be female and male at a given time. They have a noticeably easier time procreating with humans, who are usually only one biological sex.

* ''Series/DoomPatrol2019'': Danny the Street is a sentient, teleporting section of urban geography who uses the pronouns they/them and is on a team of cisgender humans.

* ''Franchise/StarTrek''
** The J'naii from the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "The Outcast" are rigidly androgynous, reconditioning anyone who dares to be male or female.
** The Vissians from the ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' episode "Cogenitor" are trinary, with the third gender (called a "[[TitleDrop cogenitor]]") making up a small percentage of the population and being treated as little more than breeding slaves.
** Andorians marriages are stated to involve four people. The Novelverse takes this to mean that Andorians have four sexes.

* ''Podcast/CampaignSkyJacks'': Gable is a 7-foot-tall, otherworldly, genderfluid being who uses they/them pronouns. [[spoiler:This is because they're an angel who predates the concept of gender entirely.]]

** The Gems are non-binary women. They run the gamet from very feminine looking like Rose Quartz, androgynous like Smoky Quartz, and butch like the second Rainbow Quartz, but none identify as male or female. They simply use she/her pronouns as a default. The only confirmed binary Gem is the HalfHumanHybrid Steven, who is male.

** Averted with Shep, Sadie's SecondLove. They're non-binary and use "they/them" pronouns, but they're fully human.

* The J'naii from the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "The Outcast" are rigidly androgynous, reconditioning anyone who dares to be male or female.
* The Vissians from the ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' episode "Cogenitor" are trinary, with the third gender (called a "[[TitleDrop cogenitor]]") making up a small percentage of the population and being treated as little more than breeding slaves.

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* ''Series/DoomPatrol2019'': Danny the Street is a sentient, teleporting section of urban geography who uses the pronouns they/them who is on a team of cisgender humans.

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* ''Podcast/CampaignSkyJacks'': Gable is a 7-foot-tall otherworldly, genderfluid being who uses they/them pronouns. [[spoiler:This is because they're an angel who predates the concept of gender entirely.]]

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** The Gems are non-binary women. They run the gamet from very feminine looking like Rose Quartz, androgynous like Smoky Quartz, and butch like the second Rainbow Quartz, but none identify as male or female. They simply use she/her pronouns as a default. The only confirmed binary Gem is the HalfHumanHybrid Steven, who is a boy.

Alternatively, from the perspective of somebody writing a non-human character, it may just make sense for them to be written as having [[BizarreAlienSexes different concepts of sex and gender from humans]] (in contrast with NonMammalMammaries and TertiarySexualCharacteristics). In this vein, when employed to an entire species (or equivalent) rather than an individual non-human, the Non-Binary Non-Human could be used as a way of averting [[MenAreGenericWomenAreSpecial maleness by default]].