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** Averted for players starting with ''New Leaf'', where it's possible to cross-dress and even make your character look exactly like the opposite gender. [=NPCs=] wont react to it, but other players might. Also getting your hair done a certain amount of times at Shampoodle (New Leaf only) will unlock opposite gender hair options.
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** One example, showing up in ''Seasons'' and only known as [[https://angrybirds.fandom.com/wiki/Female_White_Bird Female White Bird]], was created to provide a girlfriend for the then-unnamed Matilda. As the name may have tipped you off, Matilda was later decided to be female as well, meaning this was an unintentional retroactive same-sex romance.
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** In the Platform/Nintendo64 original title, and its updated versions on the UsefulNotes/NintendoGamecube, the female protagonists wore cone shaped hats while the boys wore viking helmets, that they were unable to remove. Custom hats in future games still use these designs.
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** Pab and Peb wear the same bows. This new Beta Couple in ''Bubble Bobble Plus (UsefulNotes/WiiWare)'' is named in the Title Operations Guide in the Wii Shop Channel. Became a [[DubNameChange Subtitle Name Change]] for Coro and Kulu since a "Bub's Broadcast" [=YouTube=] video in 2021 ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h61yWIBL8t4#t=3m5s at 3:05]]).
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* Bandage Girl in the ''VideoGame/MeatBoy'' series wears a distinctive flower.
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** In the UsefulNotes/Nintendo64 original title, and its updated versions on the UsefulNotes/NintendoGamecube, the female protagonists wore cone shaped hats while the boys wore viking helmets, that they were unable to remove. Custom hats in future games still use these designs.
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** In the UsefulNotes/Nintendo64 Platform/Nintendo64 original title, and its updated versions on the UsefulNotes/NintendoGamecube, the female protagonists wore cone shaped hats while the boys wore viking helmets, that they were unable to remove. Custom hats in future games still use these designs.
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** Averted starting with ''New Leaf'', where it's possible to cross-dress and even make your character look exactly like the opposite gender. [=NPCs=] wont react to it, but other players might. Also getting your hair done a certain amount of times at Shampoodle (New Leaf only) will unlock opposite gender hair options.
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** Of the four Snowfolk family members, Snowman has a mustache and a top hat while Snowmam has eyelashes and an extra snowball on her head made to evoke a hair bun.
** Of the four Snowfolk family members, Snowman has a mustache and a top hat while Snowmam has eyelashes and an extra snowball on her head made to evoke a hair bun.
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*** Lady Bow is a Boo with a bow on each side of her head. Her butler, Bootler is obviously male with his thick moustache. Gusty Gulch is full of identical looking Boos, so Goombario suggests that they should wear bows like Bow to make them easier to identify.
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** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'''s male hrothgar have a slightly hunched over posture compared to the women (added years later).
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* ''VideoGame/AdibooMagicalPlayland'': The female bird has eyelashes.
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*** Generic Toad [=NPCs=] in the first game and ''The Thousand-Year Door'' are identified as female by having hair under their mushroom caps and eyelashes, contrasting the mostly
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** A recurring quest in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'' requires the player to capture a Goomba and meet up with another, female Goomba somewhere in the kingdom. You can tell she's a girl because she has long eyelashes, {{blush sticker}}s, wears a bow on her sun hat, and--oh yeah--is pink. (Actually, she looks a lot like [[VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor Goombella]].
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** ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime'': The female Chain Chomp that sometimes appears when the Pocket Chomp item is used has a bow on its head.
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*** ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime'': The female Chain Chomp that sometimes appears when the Pocket Chomp item is used has a bow on itshead.head.
*** Kylie Koopa wears pink boots and has a pink ribbon hanging on the side of her hat.
*** Starlow's eyelashes are the only indicator on her that's she's a girl.
*** ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime'': The female Chain Chomp that sometimes appears when the Pocket Chomp item is used has a bow on its
*** Kylie Koopa wears pink boots and has a pink ribbon hanging on the side of her hat.
*** Starlow's eyelashes are the only indicator on her that's she's a girl.
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*** Generic Toad [=NPCs=] are identified as female by having long hair and eyelashes, which is a little strange, given the ViewerGenderConfusion suffered by the original Toad over the years.
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*** Generic Toad [=NPCs=] in the first game and ''The Thousand-Year Door'' are identified as female by having long hair under their mushroom caps and eyelashes, which is a little strange, given contrasting the ViewerGenderConfusion suffered by the original Toad over the years.mostly
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*** Goombario wears a blue cap similar to Mario's, while his sister Goombaria wears an orange-red bow. And has a pink body. Their mother is also pinkish in color and wears a pink head kerchief, although their grandmother is brown and merely has a lacy cap. However, none of his three female relatives have hair, unlike Goombella.
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*** Goombario wears a blue cap similar to Mario's, while his sister Goombaria wears an orange-red bow. And bow and has a pink body. Their mother is also pinkish in color and wears a pink head kerchief, although their grandmother is brown and merely has a lacy cap. However, none of his three female relatives have hair, unlike Goombella.
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*** Koops's girlfriend is a Koopa Troopa with eyelashes, hair, and BlushStickers and is the only female Koopa Troopa in the game.
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*** Professor Frankly has balding, curly hair.
*** Older male Koopas in the series, like Koopa Koot, Kroop, and Koopley, have goatees or beards, and may also have bushier eyebrows.
*** Professor Frankly has balding, curly hair.
*** Older male Koopas in the series, like Koopa Koot, Kroop, and Koopley, have goatees or beards, and may also have bushier eyebrows.
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** Only two Toads in the main series have additional traits to indicate their gender: Toadette's mushroom cap has additional growths on the bottom that resemble braids (in addition to wearing a dress under her vest), while Toadsworth sports a bowtie and a mustache.
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* The female PlayerCharacter in ''VideoGame/ThePedestrian'' has the lower half of her body be composed mainly of a triangle with legs coming out the bottom. This triangle is meant to be a dress.
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** Unlike her husband, Ms. Pac-Man has a bow on her head. She also has eyelashes and a mole, and if you look real closely, you can also see lipstick on her sprite. Different designs for her over the years have variously also given her eyeshadow, hair, or heels instead of boots. Her royalty-free counterparts, Pac-Marie and Pac-Mom, respectively have a ponytail and a feminine hat.
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** Unlike her husband, Ms. Pac-Man has a bow on her head. She also has eyelashes and a mole, and if you look real closely, you can also see lipstick on her sprite. Different designs for her over the years have variously also given her eyeshadow, hair, or heels instead of boots. 2D art of her also shows that she has a smaller nose than Pac-Man. Her royalty-free counterparts, Pac-Marie and Pac-Mom, respectively have a ponytail and a feminine hat.
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** This also extends to the Pac-Children: Baby Pac-man has her hair done up in a bow, while her brother Jr. Pac-Man used to wear a propeller beanie before switching to a baseball cap.
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** In ''The Delicious Last Course'', Ms. Chalice had to take over Cuphead or Mugman's body in order to walk among the living. She keeps their black shirt in this form, but switches out their shorts and shoes for a frilly skirt and flats. Her previous incarnation, The Legendary Chalice, used to habe prominent lipstick.
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** In ''The Delicious Last Course'', Ms. Chalice had to take over Cuphead or Mugman's body in order to walk among the living. She keeps their black shirt in this form (albeit with a visible collar), but switches out their shorts and shoes for a frilly skirt and heels.
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** In ''The Delicious Last Course'', Ms. Chalice had to take over Cuphead or Mugman's body in order to walk among the living. She keeps their black shirt in this form (albeit with a visible collar), form, but switches out their shorts and shoes for a frilly skirt and heels.flats. Her previous incarnation, The Legendary Chalice, used to habe prominent lipstick.
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** In ''The Delicious Last Course'', Ms. Chalice had to take over Cuphead or Mugman's body in order to walk among the living. She keeps their black shirt in this form (albeit with a visible collar), but switches out their shorts and shoes for a frilly skirt and heels.
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* Ms. VideoGame/PacMan has a bow on her head. In the AnimatedAdaptation, Sue, the DistaffCounterpart of Clyde, became a purple ghost with eyelashes and earrings.
** Ms. Pac Man also has an eyelash, and a mole, and if you look real closely, you can also see lipstick.
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** Unlike her husband, Ms.VideoGame/PacMan Pac-Man has a bow on her head. In the AnimatedAdaptation, Sue, the DistaffCounterpart of Clyde, became a purple ghost with She also has eyelashes and earrings.
** Ms. Pac Man also has an eyelash,and a mole, and if you look real closely, you can also see lipstick.lipstick on her sprite. Different designs for her over the years have variously also given her eyeshadow, hair, or heels instead of boots. Her royalty-free counterparts, Pac-Marie and Pac-Mom, respectively have a ponytail and a feminine hat.
** Unlike her husband, Ms.
** Ms. Pac Man also has an eyelash,
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** The minuscule difference between Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man was played with in WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether, where Pac-Man reveals that he ''is'' Ms. Pac-Man when he puts on the bow.
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** The cartoon version of Pac-Man at least got an article of clothing like his wife: he's almost never seen without his trusty red hat.
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** This also extends to the Pac-Children: Baby Pac-man has her hair done up in a bow, while her brother Jr. Pac-Man used to wear a propeller beanie before switching to a baseball cap.
** While the members of the Ghost Gang have identical bodies, only Pinky and Sue have eyelashes.
** This also extends to the Pac-Children: Baby Pac-man has her hair done up in a bow, while her brother Jr. Pac-Man used to wear a propeller beanie before switching to a baseball cap.
** While the members of the Ghost Gang have identical bodies, only Pinky and Sue have eyelashes.
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* [[spoiler:Queen Sectonia's original form, as shown by the Sectonia Clone in ''VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot'', heavily resembles her former NumberTwo, [[VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe Taranza]], though with the notable additions of pink clothing, longer hair, and pink mascara.]]
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** Inklings and Octolings (well, teenage ones, anyway) have practically no physical differences between genders; the only tells they have are males having slightly larger eyebrows, girls being imperceptibly curvier, and female Octolings having an extra dash on their eye markings. Besides that and the different hairstyles, they look identical, act identical, and can even wear the same clothes (nothing is stopping a male Inkling from dressing up as Manga/SquidGirl, for example) -- girls couldn't even wear skirts until [[VideoGame/Splatoon2 the second game]]! ''VideoGame/Splatoon3'' goes even further by letting players of any [[GenderNeutralWriting style]] pick any combination of hairstyle, eyebrows, and pants/skirts, letting players freely invoke DudeLooksLikeALady or LadyLooksLikeADude.
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* The ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' games do this quite a bit:
** Generic Toad [=NPCs=] are identified as female by having long hair and eyelashes, which is a little strange, given the ViewerGenderConfusion suffered by the original Toad over the years.
** Bombette, a female Bob-Omb, is pink, has a blond, braided fuse, and a heart-shaped windup key.
** Goombella is also pink, and she has a blond ponytail.
** Goombario wears a blue cap similar to Mario's, while his sister Goombaria wears an orange-red bow. And has a pink body. Their mother is also pinkish in color and wears a pink head kerchief, although their grandmother is brown and merely has a lacy cap. However, none of his three female relatives have hair, unlike Goombella.
** Ms. Mowz, a Mouser, has a heart-shaped tail and wears high heels.
** Interestingly, Watt and Sushie are aversions. Sushie otherwise looks like an ordinary Cheep-Cheep except for purple and orange coloring, and Watt, a Sparky, has only a pacifier (to signify that she's young). There's still some [[ViewerGenderConfusion confusion]] among gamers regarding Watt's gender. The fact that the game refers to Watt as both male AND female at different points doesn't help either.
** Petuni, the only known female Puni (other than the Elder), can me distinguished by the ''pink'' orb on her antenna.
** Koops's girlfriend is a Koopa Troopa with eyelashes, hair, and BlushStickers and is the only female Koopa Troopa in the game.
** Generic Toad [=NPCs=] are identified as female by having long hair and eyelashes, which is a little strange, given the ViewerGenderConfusion suffered by the original Toad over the years.
** Bombette, a female Bob-Omb, is pink, has a blond, braided fuse, and a heart-shaped windup key.
** Goombella is also pink, and she has a blond ponytail.
** Goombario wears a blue cap similar to Mario's, while his sister Goombaria wears an orange-red bow. And has a pink body. Their mother is also pinkish in color and wears a pink head kerchief, although their grandmother is brown and merely has a lacy cap. However, none of his three female relatives have hair, unlike Goombella.
** Ms. Mowz, a Mouser, has a heart-shaped tail and wears high heels.
** Interestingly, Watt and Sushie are aversions. Sushie otherwise looks like an ordinary Cheep-Cheep except for purple and orange coloring, and Watt, a Sparky, has only a pacifier (to signify that she's young). There's still some [[ViewerGenderConfusion confusion]] among gamers regarding Watt's gender. The fact that the game refers to Watt as both male AND female at different points doesn't help either.
** Petuni, the only known female Puni (other than the Elder), can me distinguished by the ''pink'' orb on her antenna.
** Koops's girlfriend is a Koopa Troopa with eyelashes, hair, and BlushStickers and is the only female Koopa Troopa in the game.
** Female Piantas, along with wearing bras, also have eyelashes, flowers on top of the small palms that grows on their heads, as well as orange grass skirts and palm leaves. The male ones have green skirts and palm leaves, and some individuals sports moustaches as well.
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*** Bombette, a female Bob-Omb, is pink, has a blond, braided fuse, and a heart-shaped windup key.
*** Goombella is also pink, and she has a blond ponytail.
*** Goombario wears a blue cap similar to
*** Ms. Mowz, a Mouser, has a heart-shaped tail and wears high heels.
*** Petuni, the only known female Puni (other than the Elder), can me distinguished by the ''pink'' orb on her antenna.
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* In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', Hooktail is actually a female, but has no typically feminine features to speak of.
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** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'': At one point Mario and company encounter a Chain Chomp visually identical to every other Chain Chomp in the game. Bowser however is easily able to determine that it is a girl and then "acquires" her as a weapon that he can hurl at enemies.
** ''VideoGame/MarioPartyAdvance'': Akiki is a female Ukiki, but she has the same sprite as her uncle.
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*** ''VideoGame/PaperMario64'': Sushie, a female Cheep-Cheep, otherwise looks like an ordinary member of her species except for purple and orange coloring.
*** The same game has Watt, a Sparky, who only has a pacifier (to signify that she's young). There's still some [[ViewerGenderConfusion confusion]] among gamers regarding Watt's gender. The fact that the game refers to Watt as both male AND female at different points doesn't help either.
*** In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', Hooktail is actually a female, but has no typically feminine features to speak of.
** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'': At one point Mario and company encounter a Chain Chomp visually identical to every other Chain Chomp in the game. Bowser however is easily able to determine that it is a girl and then "acquires" her as a weapon that he can hurl at enemies.
** ''VideoGame/MarioPartyAdvance'': Akiki is a female Ukiki, but she has the same sprite as her uncle.
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*** ''VideoGame/PaperMario64'': Sushie, a female Cheep-Cheep, otherwise looks like an ordinary member of her species except for purple and orange coloring.
*** The same game has Watt, a Sparky, who only has a pacifier (to signify that she's young). There's still some [[ViewerGenderConfusion confusion]] among gamers regarding Watt's gender. The fact that the game refers to Watt as both male AND female at different points doesn't help either.
*** In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', Hooktail is actually a female, but has no typically feminine features to speak of.
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* ''VideoGame/BestFiends'' has a tendency to use eyelashes, with the occasional lip tint, to signify the female Fiends. However, some girl Fiends avert this, with only their bios giving their proof of being female, such as Karma (a chameleon that goes by feminine pronouns despite having an unknown gender) and Dina (a hickory horned devil caterpillar who has been mistaken in-universe for Gene, a blatantly male Fiend).
* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
** Ribbons in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2'' can normally only be equipped by the [[OneGenderRace female-by-default races]], Viera and Gria, and by female Humes... but the otherwise [[OneGenderRace male-by-default]] Moogle and even Bangaa races have a job that can teach them "Ribbon-bearer" support ability. Guess what it allows them to do?
** Also played with in one mission, where there is a rule against harming characters of the opposite gender. The fight features Night Dancer, an apparently female bangaa with long eyelashes, lipstick, and a feminine way of speaking. This is not breaking precedent; unique characters are allowed to have a different gender than the species standard (such as Adelle, Frimelda, and Penelo, the only playable female humes in the whole game - though Penelo has access to the Viera class set). However, if you attack Night Dancer with a female, you're suddenly informed that you broke the law - which means "she" is a cross-dresser!
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'' set the precedent of Ribbons as female-only equipment but made a very special exception for guest star and one-time (forced) cross-dresser Cloud Strife.
** A similar thing happens in ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' with the armor set "Allure of Honey" made up of items from Cloud's famous cross-dressing adventure. He and all of the female characters can wear the set... along with ''[[MonsterClown Kefka]]''.
* In ''VideoGame/ZombiesAteMyNeighbors'' there's a power-up potion that temporarily transforms the player character into a hulking unclothed purple beast. Julie's monster form is identical to Zeke's -- one can't tell the gender of the underlying human via visual inspection. This trope is ''applied'' in that it is Julie, not Zeke, who retains a characteristic of her human appearance so that the two can be distinguished when both transformed at once. This trope is ''downplayed'' in that the retained characteristic is... her bright red baseball cap.
* Despite being pink, no one seems to mistake Franchise/{{Kirby}} for being female.
* Smiley from the ''VideoGame/RiddleSchool'' games has a ''mouth'' as her characteristic...seriously. As a style choice, Jon Bro made all the children bald and gave all the adults hair. Since Smiley didn't have the usual TSC of hair, he tried giving her a mouth instead. It didn't work: The special features section in Riddle School 5 lists "Smiley is a guy" as the biggest misconception about the series.
** The ArtEvolution in Riddle School 5 gave her slightly more feminine-looking eyes. Even with that, it's still slightly difficult to tell since Riddle School 5 regularly [[ArtShift shifts art styles]], and this change is most prominent during sequences [[spoiler:when you're in the space ship.]]
* Averted in ''VideoGame/ThreeInThree'': the title character (a ''talking digit'') is addressed as "Ms. 3" despite having no Tertiary Sexual Characteristics.
* Played with in VideoGame/TeamFortress2: The Pyro, whose gender is up for debate, has a flower purse in his/her/its locker and a Southern Baptist-styled hat as one of its possible headwear.
* Parodied in the online game ''[[http://games.adultswim.com/lee-lees-quest-adventure-online-game.html Lee-Lee's Quest]]''. In the intro, the titular character Lee-Lee, a blue blob, assumes that Lulu, the pink blob standing next to him, is his girlfriend. Lulu is OF COURSE just another guy who happens to like pink and have long eyelashes. Though, the sequel opens by revealing that Lulu is pregnant and heavily suggests that she was just saying anything she could think of to get Lee-Lee to leave her be.
* In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', Hooktail is actually a female, but has no typically feminine features to speak of.
* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'':
** Watch a LetsPlay video, and chances are the player will refer to Chica as a "he" or a "mister". No bow, no eyelashes, a dingy yellow color, and wearing [[AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal just a bib]] that says, "LET'S EAT!!!" in gender-neutral purple and yellow letters. Played straight with her redesign in [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 the sequel]], though.
** Bonnie spawns similar confusion in the fandom, with having a feminine name and a purple color scheme, but [[AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal wears a red bow tie]] that usually designates a male.
* There are two female Mighty Number robots in ''VideoGame/MightyNo9''. Dynatron is feminine-looking and humanoid, but Cryosphere has nothing that signifies her as "female" besides her voice.
* ''Franchise/{{Splatoon}}'':
** Inklings and Octolings (well, teenage ones, anyway) have practically no physical differences between genders; the only tells they have are males having slightly larger eyebrows, girls being imperceptibly curvier, and female Octolings having an extra dash on their eye markings. Besides that and the different hairstyles, they look identical, act identical, and can even wear the same clothes (nothing is stopping a male Inkling from dressing up as Manga/SquidGirl, for example) -- girls couldn't even wear skirts until [[VideoGame/Splatoon2 the second game]]! ''VideoGame/Splatoon3'' goes even further by letting players of any [[GenderNeutralWriting style]] pick any combination of hairstyle, eyebrows, and pants/skirts, letting players freely invoke DudeLooksLikeALady or LadyLooksLikeADude.
** Callie, Marie, Marina, and Frye all have long eyelashes, though it could just be makeup, while Pearl has no visible ones like other female Inklings. The Squid Sisters and Off the Hook have beauty marks, while neither of the female members of Deep Cut do. Marie and Pearl wear dresses, Callie and Marina both have shorts, and Frye has poofy [[BedlahBabe "harem" pants]].
** Shiver is a standout aversion, having the fewest "feminine" characteristics of almost any female character in the series. She has very short eyelashes that blend in with her TsurimeEyes, a flat chest, and ripped sweatpants instead of any sort of dress, which led to some ViewerGenderConfusion at first--not helped by the fact that early promos seemed to intentionally avoid gendered language around her. It wasn't until around the Splatfest World Premiere that WordOfGod (and some casual pronoun use) confirmed her as a girl.
* In VideoGame/GuildWars2, nearly every non playable race in the game has male and female members, but in most cases the only way you can tell them apart is from their voices. Particularly notable in the case of ogres, where the females look exactly as masculine and hulking as the males.
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* ''VideoGame/BestFiends'' has a tendency to use eyelashes, with the occasional lip tint, to signify the female Fiends. However, some girl Fiends avert this, with only their bios giving their proof of being female, such as Karma (a chameleon that goes by feminine pronouns despite having an unknown gender) and Dina (a hickory horned devil caterpillar who has been mistaken in-universe for Gene, a blatantly male Fiend).
* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
** Ribbons in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2'' can normally only be equipped by the [[OneGenderRace female-by-default races]], Viera and Gria, and by female Humes... but the otherwise [[OneGenderRace male-by-default]] Moogle and even Bangaa races have a job that can teach them "Ribbon-bearer" support ability. Guess what it allows them to do?
** Also played with in one mission, where there is a rule against harming characters of the opposite gender. The fight features Night Dancer, an apparently female bangaa with long eyelashes, lipstick, and a feminine way of speaking. This is not breaking precedent; unique characters are allowed to have a different gender than the species standard (such as Adelle, Frimelda, and Penelo, the only playable female humes in the whole game - though Penelo has access to the Viera class set). However, if you attack Night Dancer with a female, you're suddenly informed that you broke the law - which means "she" is a cross-dresser!
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'' set the precedent of Ribbons as female-only equipment but made a very special exception for guest star and one-time (forced) cross-dresser Cloud Strife.
** A similar thing happens in ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' with the armor set "Allure of Honey" made up of items from Cloud's famous cross-dressing adventure. He and all of the female characters can wear the set... along with ''[[MonsterClown Kefka]]''.
* In ''VideoGame/ZombiesAteMyNeighbors'' there's a power-up potion that temporarily transforms the player character into a hulking unclothed purple beast. Julie's monster form is identical to Zeke's -- one can't tell the gender of the underlying human via visual inspection. This trope is ''applied'' in that it is Julie, not Zeke, who retains a characteristic of her human appearance so that the two can be distinguished when both transformed at once. This trope is ''downplayed'' in that the retained characteristic is... her bright red baseball cap.
* Despite being pink, no one seems to mistake Franchise/{{Kirby}} for being female.
* Smiley from the ''VideoGame/RiddleSchool'' games has a ''mouth'' as her characteristic...seriously. As a style choice, Jon Bro made all the children bald and gave all the adults hair. Since Smiley didn't have the usual TSC of hair, he tried giving her a mouth instead. It didn't work: The special features section in Riddle School 5 lists "Smiley is a guy" as the biggest misconception about the series.
** The ArtEvolution in Riddle School 5 gave her slightly more feminine-looking eyes. Even with that, it's still slightly difficult to tell since Riddle School 5 regularly [[ArtShift shifts art styles]], and this change is most prominent during sequences [[spoiler:when you're in the space ship.]]
* Averted in ''VideoGame/ThreeInThree'': the title character (a ''talking digit'') is addressed as "Ms. 3" despite having no Tertiary Sexual Characteristics.
* Played with in VideoGame/TeamFortress2: The Pyro, whose gender is up for debate, has a flower purse in his/her/its locker and a Southern Baptist-styled hat as one of its possible headwear.
* Parodied in the online game ''[[http://games.adultswim.com/lee-lees-quest-adventure-online-game.html Lee-Lee's Quest]]''. In the intro, the titular character Lee-Lee, a blue blob, assumes that Lulu, the pink blob standing next to him, is his girlfriend. Lulu is OF COURSE just another guy who happens to like pink and have long eyelashes. Though, the sequel opens by revealing that Lulu is pregnant and heavily suggests that she was just saying anything she could think of to get Lee-Lee to leave her be.
* In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', Hooktail is actually a female, but has no typically feminine features to speak of.
* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'':
** Watch a LetsPlay video, and chances are the player will refer to Chica as a "he" or a "mister". No bow, no eyelashes, a dingy yellow color, and wearing [[AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal just a bib]] that says, "LET'S EAT!!!" in gender-neutral purple and yellow letters. Played straight with her redesign in [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 the sequel]], though.
** Bonnie spawns similar confusion in the fandom, with having a feminine name and a purple color scheme, but [[AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal wears a red bow tie]] that usually designates a male.
* There are two female Mighty Number robots in ''VideoGame/MightyNo9''. Dynatron is feminine-looking and humanoid, but Cryosphere has nothing that signifies her as "female" besides her voice.
* ''Franchise/{{Splatoon}}'':
** Inklings and Octolings (well, teenage ones, anyway) have practically no physical differences between genders; the only tells they have are males having slightly larger eyebrows, girls being imperceptibly curvier, and female Octolings having an extra dash on their eye markings. Besides that and the different hairstyles, they look identical, act identical, and can even wear the same clothes (nothing is stopping a male Inkling from dressing up as Manga/SquidGirl, for example) -- girls couldn't even wear skirts until [[VideoGame/Splatoon2 the second game]]! ''VideoGame/Splatoon3'' goes even further by letting players of any [[GenderNeutralWriting style]] pick any combination of hairstyle, eyebrows, and pants/skirts, letting players freely invoke DudeLooksLikeALady or LadyLooksLikeADude.
** Callie, Marie, Marina, and Frye all have long eyelashes, though it could just be makeup, while Pearl has no visible ones like other female Inklings. The Squid Sisters and Off the Hook have beauty marks, while neither of the female members of Deep Cut do. Marie and Pearl wear dresses, Callie and Marina both have shorts, and Frye has poofy [[BedlahBabe "harem" pants]].
** Shiver is a standout aversion, having the fewest "feminine" characteristics of almost any female character in the series. She has very short eyelashes that blend in with her TsurimeEyes, a flat chest, and ripped sweatpants instead of any sort of dress, which led to some ViewerGenderConfusion at first--not helped by the fact that early promos seemed to intentionally avoid gendered language around her. It wasn't until around the Splatfest World Premiere that WordOfGod (and some casual pronoun use) confirmed her as a girl.
* In VideoGame/GuildWars2, nearly every non playable race in the game has male and female members, but in most cases the only way you can tell them apart is from their voices. Particularly notable in the case of ogres, where the females look exactly as masculine and hulking as the males.
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* Mocked in ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigations'' by Edgeworth, where he objects to its use on the Pink Badger, the Blue Badger's DistaffCounterpart.
-->'''Edgeworth''': I suppose this is the Pink Badger? But since it has the same design, doesn't it seem forced to call this one a female?\\
'''Kay''': You think so? I mean, just look at how long her eyelashes are!\\
'''Edgeworth''': That's the only difference.\\
'''Kay''': And the fact that she's pink.\\
'''Edgeworth''': Yes, and?\\
'''Kay''': And her lips are red! See, lipstick!\\
'''Edgeworth''': (thinking to himself) ''What? She has nothing to say about the giant pink ribbon, or is that too obvious?''
* In ''VideoGame/AngryBirds'' some later bird additions and merchandise have stylized "feminine" eyelashes and bows on their heads.
* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'':
** Your player character will wear a t-shirt and shorts if they're a boy, and a dress if they're a girl. They'll also each have a different set of hairstyles (though at one point in the game, girls can get boy haircuts and vice versa.)
** In the UsefulNotes/Nintendo64 original title, and its updated versions on the UsefulNotes/NintendoGamecube, the female protagonists wore cone shaped hats while the boys wore viking helmets, that they were unable to remove. Custom hats in future games still use these designs.
** On the NPC end, animals will have either blue or pink name boxes during conversations depending on their gender.
** Averted starting with ''New Leaf'', where it's possible to cross-dress and even make your character look exactly like the opposite gender. [=NPCs=] wont react to it, but other players might. Also getting your hair done a certain amount of times at Shampoodle (New Leaf only) will unlock opposite gender hair options.
* Pablo Sanchez of ''VideoGame/BackyardSports'' has a baseball cap, is bald, and wears shorts. In every game except Skateboarding where he wears a helmet.
* In ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie: Nuts and Bolts'', Rare apparently got tired of the years of people going [[ViewerGenderConfusion "Kazooie's a girl?!"]], so they re-made her appearance. She now has long eyelashes, "curly" hair, and a more curvy look, to make her more obviously female. And then, once you beat the game, she starts wearing a bowtie (yes, it's a bow, but it's a masculine bow). Kazooie even keeps her eyelashes in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' to show that she is undoubtedly a girl.
* In ''Benji's Bananas'', Benji's girlfriend differs from his by the [[FlowersOfFemininity flower in her hair]], her eyelashes, and her clothes. Benji himself is just a normal monkey.
* In ''VideoGame/BoxBoy'', the only difference between Qucy and the other two boxes is that she's got a big grey head bow. That being said, Qbby (and later Qudy and Qucy herself) can avert this due to the gendered clothing options not being restricted to any one character.
* ''VideoGame/BubbleBobble'':
** The protagonists of ''Bubble Symphony'', a sequel to ''Bubble Bobble'': Coro and Kulu, who have bows on their heads, are the female duo BetaCouple to Bub and Bob.
** Pab and Peb wear the same bows. This new Beta Couple in ''Bubble Bobble Plus (UsefulNotes/WiiWare)'' is named in the Title Operations Guide in the Wii Shop Channel. Became a [[DubNameChange Subtitle Name Change]] for Coro and Kulu since a "Bub's Broadcast" [=YouTube=] video in 2021 ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h61yWIBL8t4#t=3m5s at 3:05]]).
** ''Rainbow Islands'': [[spoiler:Eleven random people in TheAlcatraz were forcibly transformed into green bubble dragons. Three of them are female and thus have a pink bow on their heads as bubble dragons.]]
* In ''Chack'n Pop'', Miss Chack'n can be told apart from Mr. Chack'n by the ribbon in her hair.
* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'': Atropos, Robo's DistaffCounterpart, DuelBoss, and girlfriend is pink and wear a bow. In fact, after you beat her in her DuelBoss fight versus Robo, she gives you her ribbon as a special Robo-only equippable item.
* All ''VideoGame/{{Creatures}}'' games exhibit a mix of this (many official breeds differ by hairstyle, two have ''makeup'' on the females, and one C1 breed had pinkish females and bluish males) and more typical sexual dimorphism (different coat colors, horns on male Fallow Norns.)
* ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'' has quite a few:
** It cleverly uses the same accessory as one for male and female at the same time. One of the bosses fought is a large domino with a masculine top half named Pip, and a feminine bottom half named Dot. There is a bow in the middle of the domino that would serve as a [[RingAroundTheCollar bow tie]] for Pip, as well as a hair bow for Dot.
** The Moonshine Mob flies all have five o'clock shadow.
** In the epilogue of the game, an ant squad member reads feminine: Her thorax is much more round in comparison to the flatter thoraxes of the ants met during the game proper.
* "Big Sis Prinny" from ''VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness'' is pinkish-purple rather then blue like the generic Prinnies.
* Isaac's female alter-egos from ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'':
** Maggy has a blonde wig with a bow in it.
** Eve has a scraggly black wig, ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow, and a dead bird in her hair that could be mistake for a bow at a glance.
** Lilith has a long, red wig.
* Three of the four female Kongs in the ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'' series have long, blonde hair. The only one to not have it is Wrinkly Kong, as she is an old lady.
* In ''VideoGame/EverOasis'', male and female [[PlantPeople Seedlings]] are sexually dimorphic. Male Seedlings have woodier, more branchlike horns, female Seedlings have split-down-the-middle horns that resemble seed pods.
* In the ''Gremlins: Gizmo'' video game, you can choose to care for a couple of female mogwai, distinguishable by their long eyelashes.
* Becoming a Super Mutant in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' causes one to lose secondary sexual characteristics and become sterile, muscle-bound, and masculine-looking. Two female Nightkin in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' accessorize to look feminine: Lily wears a gardening hat and shawl, while Tabitha sports a pair of heart-shaped red eyeglasses and a blonde wig with a bow.
* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'', female Moogles are distinguished from the males by wearing pink vests.
** In one quest from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2'' you rescue a kidnapped Seeq beauty queen. Her sprite is indistinguishable from a male Seeq viking, but in her portrait she's... a male Seeq viking with lipstick.
* Whenever you perform a task in your schedule in ''VideoGame/GrowingUp'', a simplified version of your avatar is shown doing it. Female avatars will wear a ponytail [[GameplayAndStorySegregation regardless of their hairstyle.]]
* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'':
** ''VideoGame/HaloReach'': Female Spartans are skinnier, curvier and have JigglePhysics in contrast to previous games and lore which asserted that Spartan's gender were indistinguishable when wearing PoweredArmour.
** ''Anime/HaloLegends'': Female Sangheili are more humanoid, with far less pounced mandibles and even have hair.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Henry Stickmin|Series}}'' series has Ellie Rose. Before she speaks, she has a feminine-style haircut and a red mouth for lipstick to showcase that she is female.
* The protagonist of ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy'', The Kid, gets a bow in his hair on Normal Mode, to [[EasyModeMockery suggest the less than masculine choice of playing on the easiest setting]] As if the extra save points with "WUSS" written on them weren't enough of a clue. Ayane gives Ryu one in the Xbox ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden'' if he selects Ninja Dog mode.
* In ''VideoGame/IceClimber'', Nana (the P2 character) is just the Popo sprite with a pink parka instead of blue.
* ''VideoGame/InazumaEleven'': The inhabitants of Faram Obius, a planet from the ''Galaxy'' game, are humanoid aliens who have similar sexual dimorphism as real humans. However, another thing that distinguishes the sexes is that only males have horns on their head.
* In ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'', the Bouncywild, the DistaffCounterpart of the monkey-like Powerwild, has blonde pigtails and a bow.
* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'': Female avatars have ponytails. Many of the alternate avatar images, as well. The male version of Vestments of the Treeslayer is a tree. The female version is the same tree, with a little bow tied to one branch.
* ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'':
** All over the place in the ''Kirby'' series, where characters are given bows to show that they're female. It's most obvious with Chuchu the octopus and Ribbon the fairy. The only two exceptions seem to be [[CuteWitch Keke]] and Adeleine. This caries over into the fandom, where fanmade female characters are usually given a bow, or at least big ol' eyelashes.
** The blue Lololo's distaff counterpart Lalala is pink and wears a bow.
** Taken to the extremes with Kaboola/Kabula, an airship boss in ''VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand'' and ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar Ultra''. Her most recent redesign has eyelashes painted on her hull.
** Many male characters in this series tend to have big bushy eyebrows.
** Inverted in ''VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn'' with an angler fish couple Kirby is responsible for reuniting, as the male is smaller, pink and wears a bow around its body.
* In ''VideoGame/LaterAlligator'', it's easy to tell that Pat's baby sister Angelface is female because she wears a pink bow.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks'': Why can you tell Zelda apart from the other [[AnimatedArmor Animated Armors]]? ''Because she's freakin' [[color:pink:pink]]!!''
-->'''Random Phantom''': (to Zelda) YOU SEEM CUTER THAN USUAL. WHY.
** In ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames Oracle of Ages]]'', the Maku Tree in Labrynna has long eyelashes, ganguro-style makeup, and a large flower low in her branches.
** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' the [[http://zelda.wikia.com/wiki/Female_Monkey Female monkey]] is distinguished from the others by a rose on her head.
* Determining a Sackboy from a Sackgirl in ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet'' is based solely on what clothing and design options the player places on them.
* ''Franchise/MassEffect'':
** The only female krogan seen wears a full body-covering robe, while males are almost always wearing combat armor, and the few who don't wear simple shirts and trousers. However, they still were able to split off from the males and form their own exclusively female clans that are doing just fine on their native DeathWorld Tuchanka without any males protecting them from wild beasts and raiders, so it's more likely that the one example of female clothing were special priestess robes rather than common clothing for women. [[spoiler:And even then she still had no problem at all with taking a shotgun from the person next to her to shoot a cyborg assassin coming up behind him.]]
** Quarian females generally wear a hood or veil over their helmet, while males have little hook things hanging from their rebreathers. These are on top of form-fitting full-body environment suits that clearly show very prominent humanoid sexual dimorphism [[note]] Female: wide hips, Male: wide shoulders and such. All Quarians we've met are quite slim which accentuates both. [[/note]], moving away from the trope somewhat.
* Bandage Girl in the ''VideoGame/MeatBoy'' series wears a distinctive flower.
* Now that it's no longer a secret that SamusIsAGirl, Samus's PoweredArmor in the ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' series has undergone a slight-but-noticeable makeover to make the gender of its wearer more obvious. It possess a rather slender waist and a large BreastPlate, and its visor is now more obviously transparent, usually showing off Samus' eyes... and her rather long eyelashes.
* Nintendo's Miis have all the same facial and hair combinations, however males wear a shirt and pants and females wear a dress that flares out.
* In ''VideoGame/TheMovies'', the full-body animal costumes are the few unisex outfits, because they ''replace'' the character model for the actor rather than fitting over it. Except, the gorilla suit has a male and a female variant. The lady gorilla has a bow and lighter fur (but, curiously, no [[NonMammalMammaries cleavage!]]) And no, you can't cross dress it; it always matches the gender of the actor.
* In ''VideoGame/NutsAndMilk'', Yogurt looks exactly like Milk with the addition of two pink bows on her head.
* Ms. VideoGame/PacMan has a bow on her head. In the AnimatedAdaptation, Sue, the DistaffCounterpart of Clyde, became a purple ghost with eyelashes and earrings.
** Ms. Pac Man also has an eyelash, and a mole, and if you look real closely, you can also see lipstick.
** Discussed in an exchange in ''Film/WaynesWorld'', which provided this trope's alternate title:
-->"Well, she's got a bow on her head!"
** The minuscule difference between Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man was played with in WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether, where Pac-Man reveals that he ''is'' Ms. Pac-Man when he puts on the bow.
** One of the ads for a home video game system version of Ms. Pac-Man had the titular yellow gobbling-disk try to convince us otherwise, by singing "Honey, don'tcha know / I'm more than Pac Man with a bow!"
** The cartoon version of Pac-Man at least got an article of clothing like his wife: he's almost never seen without his trusty red hat.
* The ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' games do this quite a bit:
** Generic Toad [=NPCs=] are identified as female by having long hair and eyelashes, which is a little strange, given the ViewerGenderConfusion suffered by the original Toad over the years.
** Bombette, a female Bob-Omb, is pink, has a blond, braided fuse, and a heart-shaped windup key.
** Goombella is also pink, and she has a blond ponytail.
** Goombario wears a blue cap similar to Mario's, while his sister Goombaria wears an orange-red bow. And has a pink body. Their mother is also pinkish in color and wears a pink head kerchief, although their grandmother is brown and merely has a lacy cap. However, none of his three female relatives have hair, unlike Goombella.
** Ms. Mowz, a Mouser, has a heart-shaped tail and wears high heels.
** Interestingly, Watt and Sushie are aversions. Sushie otherwise looks like an ordinary Cheep-Cheep except for purple and orange coloring, and Watt, a Sparky, has only a pacifier (to signify that she's young). There's still some [[ViewerGenderConfusion confusion]] among gamers regarding Watt's gender. The fact that the game refers to Watt as both male AND female at different points doesn't help either.
** Petuni, the only known female Puni (other than the Elder), can me distinguished by the ''pink'' orb on her antenna.
** Koops's girlfriend is a Koopa Troopa with eyelashes, hair, and BlushStickers and is the only female Koopa Troopa in the game.
* ''Gokujou VideoGame/{{Parodius}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Otomedius}} G'' have the giant female Moai head Yoshiko, who wears lipstick and earrings. The latter game reveals that it's not her real face.
* The female PlayerCharacter in ''VideoGame/ThePedestrian'' has the lower half of her body be composed mainly of a triangle with legs coming out the bottom. This triangle is meant to be a dress.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': Gender-specific physical differences were created for some Pokémon in ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'' and carried over to future games. Most of them, as well as earlier attempts at portraying sexual dimorphism in the franchise, fall under SecondarySexualCharacteristics, being random changes or based on real life animals, but a few, such as female Wobuffet's lipstick-like markings, are closer to this, via RuleOfFunny.
* Oniko from ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' looks much like her crush Onion Pixie, but with a red ribbon on her head, a dress, and visible eyelashes.
* Lady X Subsistance from ''VideoGame/RumbleRoses'' to emphasize she is supposed to be a female despite being a robot has wide hips, high heeled shaped feet, and feminine eyes. The "Substance" model appears a bit more human-like but is still obviously a robot and has long hair alongside clothes that shows her belly and covers the vital spots females have to cover.
* Rebecca, the female hedgehog from ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheWoolBall'' and its sequel, can be recognized as female because she has visible eyelashes and long hair.
* ''VideoGame/TheSims'':
** In ''VideoGame/TheSims2'', you can build male and female Servos (robot butlers). The male looks like a generic robot, but the female looks like the male with a pink bow and lipstick.
** ''VideoGame/MySims'':
*** Sims are technically neither, though the specific characteristics they're given tell the tale. The player-controlled Sim can be given any available characteristics you want. (Feminine voice, eyelashes, and attire with a masculine hairstyle and a five-o'-clock shadow? Go for it!)
*** In ''[=MySims=] Kingdom'', on the other hand, you choose a gender for your Sim, and that puts a limiter on what your Sim can wear, what kind of hair is available, etc.. Sometimes, it changes what outfits you get as a reward. For example, there's a reward that lets males choose from a selection of outfits that are shorts-only; females get two-pieces, some with shirts over them (split near the bottom).
* When Amy Rose first appeared in ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogCD'', her defining sexual characteristics are being pink (a contrast to Sonic's blue), eyelashes, and a skirt. When she was redesigned for ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'', her femininity was more emphasized by changing her hairstyle (up until then, it was exactly the same as Sonic's), giving her an actual bust size (she was changed from eight years old to twelve), and giving her large golden bracelets to wear on her wrists. [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics Archie]] gave her secondary characteristics. Played straight with most characters in the games, where the only differences are eyelashes and clothing styles.
* The main characters of ''VideoGame/{{Snipperclips}}'' seem to be male and female based solely on their tertiary traits. One of them wears a bowtie and sneakers, while the other has long eyelashes, and wears a scarf and flared heel boots.
* ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon'':
** In ''VideoGame/SpyroAHerosTail'', girl dragon (and {{expy}} of Amy Rose) Ember is [[PinkGirlBlueBoy pink]], has a necklace, and has a heart-shaped tail tip. Spyro and Flame on the other hand are purple and bright red.
** In ''VideoGame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon'', some of the female dragons hatch out of their eggs ''already wearing a bow''.
* ''VideoGame/StarFoxZero'' features a pink colored vixen. She also has a TuftOfHeadFur, though not the FurryFemaleMane Krystal has.
* ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' has human females and thus through their figures and clothing it is easy to tell their genders. The girls do however have a trait the men don't in that they are not allowed to look unpresentable thus they don't [[https://i.imgur.com/IylRUes.jpg appear goofy]] or their [[https://i.imgur.com/pSKBdGe.jpg jaws do not deform]] when hit by certain attacks.
* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
** Wendy O. Koopa has a pink hairbow, a pink shell, makeup, jewelry and high heels. Interestingly, despite being the only female Koopaling, Wendy is one of only two Koopalings with no hair.
** Pom Pom, a feminized version of Boom Boom. Even her ''boomerangs'' have bows on them.
** A recurring quest in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'' requires the player to capture a Goomba and meet up with another, female Goomba somewhere in the kingdom. You can tell she's a girl because she has long eyelashes, {{blush sticker}}s, wears a bow on her sun hat, and--oh yeah--is pink. (Actually, she looks a lot like [[VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor Goombella]].
** ''VideoGame/MarioPartyAdvance'':
*** Played straight with Goombob and Goombetty, a pair of Galoomba school friends. Goombob looks like a regular Galoomba, but the female Goombetty wears a bow.
*** Downplayed with Bob-omba. She's pink and she's a girl, but she's specifically a Bob-omb Buddy, who are ''always'' pink regardless of gender. However, she also has a male Bob-omb friend who's a regular black-colored Bob-omb.
*** Averted with Akiki. She's a female Ukiki, but she has the same sprite as her uncle.
** ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime'': The female Chain Chomp that sometimes appears when the Pocket Chomp item is used has a bow on its head.
* Averted in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG''. At one point Mario and company encounter a Chain Chomp visually identical to every other Chain Chomp in the game. Bowser however is easily able to determine that it is a girl and then "acquires" her as a weapon that he can hurl at enemies.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Twinbee}}'', one of the ships (not just the pilot of said ship, [[LivingShip the ship itself]]) is female. How can you tell? Winbee is pink. Later installments have also shown that her cockpit is shaped like a heart, though this is somewhat excused - with two rounded bumps on top, it also shows she's the second 'bee ship. Twinbee, the original, has a round cockpit (one "bump"), while Gwinbee, the third, appears to have a rounded arrow pointing down (three bumps on the top part of the cockpit).
* The Flash game ''Vision by Proxy'' is about a round blue alien with one big eye, who looks like a blue [[WesternAnimation/MonstersInc Mike Wasowski]]. The sequel ''Ms Vision By Proxy'' is about a round pink alien with one big eye, a bow on her head and, for some reason, a belt. Taking it up a level, the alien from the first game appears in the opening cut scene and has grown a moustache.
* Throughout the ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade|Chronicles1}} [[VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX Chron]][[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2 icles]]'' series, determining the gender of Nopon (who are all shaped like furry spheres) comes down to contextual clues. In ''2'', Zeke reveals that this applies InUniverse as well, stating most people can only tell Nopon boys from girls by their clothing. The boot is on both feet, however, as the same scene reveals party member Tora thought Mòrag was a man. She takes it quite personally (while she does speak with a gruff tone and is never seen out of her military uniform, a human would be unlikely to make that mistake). The setting even takes pronouns into account: in Japanese, Mòrag uses collective or masculine pronouns as befits her rank; in English, the [[YouNoTakeCandle Noponic dialect]] doesn't use them, so Tora never knew the difference between "he" and "she".
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-->'''Edgeworth''': I suppose this is the Pink Badger? But since it has the same design, doesn't it seem forced to call this one a female?\\
'''Kay''': You think so? I mean, just look at how long her eyelashes are!\\
'''Edgeworth''': That's the only difference.\\
'''Kay''': And the fact that she's pink.\\
'''Edgeworth''': Yes, and?\\
'''Kay''': And her lips are red! See, lipstick!\\
'''Edgeworth''': (thinking to himself) ''What? She has nothing to say about the giant pink ribbon, or is that too obvious?''
* In ''VideoGame/AngryBirds'' some later bird additions and merchandise have stylized "feminine" eyelashes and bows on their heads.
* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'':
** Your player character will wear a t-shirt and shorts if they're a boy, and a dress if they're a girl. They'll also each have a different set of hairstyles (though at one point in the game, girls can get boy haircuts and vice versa.)
** In the UsefulNotes/Nintendo64 original title, and its updated versions on the UsefulNotes/NintendoGamecube, the female protagonists wore cone shaped hats while the boys wore viking helmets, that they were unable to remove. Custom hats in future games still use these designs.
** On the NPC end, animals will have either blue or pink name boxes during conversations depending on their gender.
** Averted starting with ''New Leaf'', where it's possible to cross-dress and even make your character look exactly like the opposite gender. [=NPCs=] wont react to it, but other players might. Also getting your hair done a certain amount of times at Shampoodle (New Leaf only) will unlock opposite gender hair options.
* Pablo Sanchez of ''VideoGame/BackyardSports'' has a baseball cap, is bald, and wears shorts. In every game except Skateboarding where he wears a helmet.
* In ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie: Nuts and Bolts'', Rare apparently got tired of the years of people going [[ViewerGenderConfusion "Kazooie's a girl?!"]], so they re-made her appearance. She now has long eyelashes, "curly" hair, and a more curvy look, to make her more obviously female. And then, once you beat the game, she starts wearing a bowtie (yes, it's a bow, but it's a masculine bow). Kazooie even keeps her eyelashes in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' to show that she is undoubtedly a girl.
* In ''Benji's Bananas'', Benji's girlfriend differs from his by the [[FlowersOfFemininity flower in her hair]], her eyelashes, and her clothes. Benji himself is just a normal monkey.
* In ''VideoGame/BoxBoy'', the only difference between Qucy and the other two boxes is that she's got a big grey head bow. That being said, Qbby (and later Qudy and Qucy herself) can avert this due to the gendered clothing options not being restricted to any one character.
* ''VideoGame/BubbleBobble'':
** The protagonists of ''Bubble Symphony'', a sequel to ''Bubble Bobble'': Coro and Kulu, who have bows on their heads, are the female duo BetaCouple to Bub and Bob.
** Pab and Peb wear the same bows. This new Beta Couple in ''Bubble Bobble Plus (UsefulNotes/WiiWare)'' is named in the Title Operations Guide in the Wii Shop Channel. Became a [[DubNameChange Subtitle Name Change]] for Coro and Kulu since a "Bub's Broadcast" [=YouTube=] video in 2021 ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h61yWIBL8t4#t=3m5s at 3:05]]).
** ''Rainbow Islands'': [[spoiler:Eleven random people in TheAlcatraz were forcibly transformed into green bubble dragons. Three of them are female and thus have a pink bow on their heads as bubble dragons.]]
* In ''Chack'n Pop'', Miss Chack'n can be told apart from Mr. Chack'n by the ribbon in her hair.
* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'': Atropos, Robo's DistaffCounterpart, DuelBoss, and girlfriend is pink and wear a bow. In fact, after you beat her in her DuelBoss fight versus Robo, she gives you her ribbon as a special Robo-only equippable item.
* All ''VideoGame/{{Creatures}}'' games exhibit a mix of this (many official breeds differ by hairstyle, two have ''makeup'' on the females, and one C1 breed had pinkish females and bluish males) and more typical sexual dimorphism (different coat colors, horns on male Fallow Norns.)
* ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'' has quite a few:
** It cleverly uses the same accessory as one for male and female at the same time. One of the bosses fought is a large domino with a masculine top half named Pip, and a feminine bottom half named Dot. There is a bow in the middle of the domino that would serve as a [[RingAroundTheCollar bow tie]] for Pip, as well as a hair bow for Dot.
** The Moonshine Mob flies all have five o'clock shadow.
** In the epilogue of the game, an ant squad member reads feminine: Her thorax is much more round in comparison to the flatter thoraxes of the ants met during the game proper.
* "Big Sis Prinny" from ''VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness'' is pinkish-purple rather then blue like the generic Prinnies.
* Isaac's female alter-egos from ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'':
** Maggy has a blonde wig with a bow in it.
** Eve has a scraggly black wig, ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow, and a dead bird in her hair that could be mistake for a bow at a glance.
** Lilith has a long, red wig.
* Three of the four female Kongs in the ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'' series have long, blonde hair. The only one to not have it is Wrinkly Kong, as she is an old lady.
* In ''VideoGame/EverOasis'', male and female [[PlantPeople Seedlings]] are sexually dimorphic. Male Seedlings have woodier, more branchlike horns, female Seedlings have split-down-the-middle horns that resemble seed pods.
* In the ''Gremlins: Gizmo'' video game, you can choose to care for a couple of female mogwai, distinguishable by their long eyelashes.
* Becoming a Super Mutant in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' causes one to lose secondary sexual characteristics and become sterile, muscle-bound, and masculine-looking. Two female Nightkin in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' accessorize to look feminine: Lily wears a gardening hat and shawl, while Tabitha sports a pair of heart-shaped red eyeglasses and a blonde wig with a bow.
* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'', female Moogles are distinguished from the males by wearing pink vests.
** In one quest from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2'' you rescue a kidnapped Seeq beauty queen. Her sprite is indistinguishable from a male Seeq viking, but in her portrait she's... a male Seeq viking with lipstick.
* Whenever you perform a task in your schedule in ''VideoGame/GrowingUp'', a simplified version of your avatar is shown doing it. Female avatars will wear a ponytail [[GameplayAndStorySegregation regardless of their hairstyle.]]
* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'':
** ''VideoGame/HaloReach'': Female Spartans are skinnier, curvier and have JigglePhysics in contrast to previous games and lore which asserted that Spartan's gender were indistinguishable when wearing PoweredArmour.
** ''Anime/HaloLegends'': Female Sangheili are more humanoid, with far less pounced mandibles and even have hair.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Henry Stickmin|Series}}'' series has Ellie Rose. Before she speaks, she has a feminine-style haircut and a red mouth for lipstick to showcase that she is female.
* The protagonist of ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy'', The Kid, gets a bow in his hair on Normal Mode, to [[EasyModeMockery suggest the less than masculine choice of playing on the easiest setting]] As if the extra save points with "WUSS" written on them weren't enough of a clue. Ayane gives Ryu one in the Xbox ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden'' if he selects Ninja Dog mode.
* In ''VideoGame/IceClimber'', Nana (the P2 character) is just the Popo sprite with a pink parka instead of blue.
* ''VideoGame/InazumaEleven'': The inhabitants of Faram Obius, a planet from the ''Galaxy'' game, are humanoid aliens who have similar sexual dimorphism as real humans. However, another thing that distinguishes the sexes is that only males have horns on their head.
* In ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'', the Bouncywild, the DistaffCounterpart of the monkey-like Powerwild, has blonde pigtails and a bow.
* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'': Female avatars have ponytails. Many of the alternate avatar images, as well. The male version of Vestments of the Treeslayer is a tree. The female version is the same tree, with a little bow tied to one branch.
* ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'':
** All over the place in the ''Kirby'' series, where characters are given bows to show that they're female. It's most obvious with Chuchu the octopus and Ribbon the fairy. The only two exceptions seem to be [[CuteWitch Keke]] and Adeleine. This caries over into the fandom, where fanmade female characters are usually given a bow, or at least big ol' eyelashes.
** The blue Lololo's distaff counterpart Lalala is pink and wears a bow.
** Taken to the extremes with Kaboola/Kabula, an airship boss in ''VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand'' and ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar Ultra''. Her most recent redesign has eyelashes painted on her hull.
** Many male characters in this series tend to have big bushy eyebrows.
** Inverted in ''VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn'' with an angler fish couple Kirby is responsible for reuniting, as the male is smaller, pink and wears a bow around its body.
* In ''VideoGame/LaterAlligator'', it's easy to tell that Pat's baby sister Angelface is female because she wears a pink bow.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks'': Why can you tell Zelda apart from the other [[AnimatedArmor Animated Armors]]? ''Because she's freakin' [[color:pink:pink]]!!''
-->'''Random Phantom''': (to Zelda) YOU SEEM CUTER THAN USUAL. WHY.
** In ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames Oracle of Ages]]'', the Maku Tree in Labrynna has long eyelashes, ganguro-style makeup, and a large flower low in her branches.
** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' the [[http://zelda.wikia.com/wiki/Female_Monkey Female monkey]] is distinguished from the others by a rose on her head.
* Determining a Sackboy from a Sackgirl in ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet'' is based solely on what clothing and design options the player places on them.
* ''Franchise/MassEffect'':
** The only female krogan seen wears a full body-covering robe, while males are almost always wearing combat armor, and the few who don't wear simple shirts and trousers. However, they still were able to split off from the males and form their own exclusively female clans that are doing just fine on their native DeathWorld Tuchanka without any males protecting them from wild beasts and raiders, so it's more likely that the one example of female clothing were special priestess robes rather than common clothing for women. [[spoiler:And even then she still had no problem at all with taking a shotgun from the person next to her to shoot a cyborg assassin coming up behind him.]]
** Quarian females generally wear a hood or veil over their helmet, while males have little hook things hanging from their rebreathers. These are on top of form-fitting full-body environment suits that clearly show very prominent humanoid sexual dimorphism [[note]] Female: wide hips, Male: wide shoulders and such. All Quarians we've met are quite slim which accentuates both. [[/note]], moving away from the trope somewhat.
* Bandage Girl in the ''VideoGame/MeatBoy'' series wears a distinctive flower.
* Now that it's no longer a secret that SamusIsAGirl, Samus's PoweredArmor in the ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' series has undergone a slight-but-noticeable makeover to make the gender of its wearer more obvious. It possess a rather slender waist and a large BreastPlate, and its visor is now more obviously transparent, usually showing off Samus' eyes... and her rather long eyelashes.
* Nintendo's Miis have all the same facial and hair combinations, however males wear a shirt and pants and females wear a dress that flares out.
* In ''VideoGame/TheMovies'', the full-body animal costumes are the few unisex outfits, because they ''replace'' the character model for the actor rather than fitting over it. Except, the gorilla suit has a male and a female variant. The lady gorilla has a bow and lighter fur (but, curiously, no [[NonMammalMammaries cleavage!]]) And no, you can't cross dress it; it always matches the gender of the actor.
* In ''VideoGame/NutsAndMilk'', Yogurt looks exactly like Milk with the addition of two pink bows on her head.
* Ms. VideoGame/PacMan has a bow on her head. In the AnimatedAdaptation, Sue, the DistaffCounterpart of Clyde, became a purple ghost with eyelashes and earrings.
** Ms. Pac Man also has an eyelash, and a mole, and if you look real closely, you can also see lipstick.
** Discussed in an exchange in ''Film/WaynesWorld'', which provided this trope's alternate title:
-->"Well, she's got a bow on her head!"
** The minuscule difference between Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man was played with in WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether, where Pac-Man reveals that he ''is'' Ms. Pac-Man when he puts on the bow.
** One of the ads for a home video game system version of Ms. Pac-Man had the titular yellow gobbling-disk try to convince us otherwise, by singing "Honey, don'tcha know / I'm more than Pac Man with a bow!"
** The cartoon version of Pac-Man at least got an article of clothing like his wife: he's almost never seen without his trusty red hat.
* The ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' games do this quite a bit:
** Generic Toad [=NPCs=] are identified as female by having long hair and eyelashes, which is a little strange, given the ViewerGenderConfusion suffered by the original Toad over the years.
** Bombette, a female Bob-Omb, is pink, has a blond, braided fuse, and a heart-shaped windup key.
** Goombella is also pink, and she has a blond ponytail.
** Goombario wears a blue cap similar to Mario's, while his sister Goombaria wears an orange-red bow. And has a pink body. Their mother is also pinkish in color and wears a pink head kerchief, although their grandmother is brown and merely has a lacy cap. However, none of his three female relatives have hair, unlike Goombella.
** Ms. Mowz, a Mouser, has a heart-shaped tail and wears high heels.
** Interestingly, Watt and Sushie are aversions. Sushie otherwise looks like an ordinary Cheep-Cheep except for purple and orange coloring, and Watt, a Sparky, has only a pacifier (to signify that she's young). There's still some [[ViewerGenderConfusion confusion]] among gamers regarding Watt's gender. The fact that the game refers to Watt as both male AND female at different points doesn't help either.
** Petuni, the only known female Puni (other than the Elder), can me distinguished by the ''pink'' orb on her antenna.
** Koops's girlfriend is a Koopa Troopa with eyelashes, hair, and BlushStickers and is the only female Koopa Troopa in the game.
* ''Gokujou VideoGame/{{Parodius}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Otomedius}} G'' have the giant female Moai head Yoshiko, who wears lipstick and earrings. The latter game reveals that it's not her real face.
* The female PlayerCharacter in ''VideoGame/ThePedestrian'' has the lower half of her body be composed mainly of a triangle with legs coming out the bottom. This triangle is meant to be a dress.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': Gender-specific physical differences were created for some Pokémon in ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'' and carried over to future games. Most of them, as well as earlier attempts at portraying sexual dimorphism in the franchise, fall under SecondarySexualCharacteristics, being random changes or based on real life animals, but a few, such as female Wobuffet's lipstick-like markings, are closer to this, via RuleOfFunny.
* Oniko from ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' looks much like her crush Onion Pixie, but with a red ribbon on her head, a dress, and visible eyelashes.
* Lady X Subsistance from ''VideoGame/RumbleRoses'' to emphasize she is supposed to be a female despite being a robot has wide hips, high heeled shaped feet, and feminine eyes. The "Substance" model appears a bit more human-like but is still obviously a robot and has long hair alongside clothes that shows her belly and covers the vital spots females have to cover.
* Rebecca, the female hedgehog from ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheWoolBall'' and its sequel, can be recognized as female because she has visible eyelashes and long hair.
* ''VideoGame/TheSims'':
** In ''VideoGame/TheSims2'', you can build male and female Servos (robot butlers). The male looks like a generic robot, but the female looks like the male with a pink bow and lipstick.
** ''VideoGame/MySims'':
*** Sims are technically neither, though the specific characteristics they're given tell the tale. The player-controlled Sim can be given any available characteristics you want. (Feminine voice, eyelashes, and attire with a masculine hairstyle and a five-o'-clock shadow? Go for it!)
*** In ''[=MySims=] Kingdom'', on the other hand, you choose a gender for your Sim, and that puts a limiter on what your Sim can wear, what kind of hair is available, etc.. Sometimes, it changes what outfits you get as a reward. For example, there's a reward that lets males choose from a selection of outfits that are shorts-only; females get two-pieces, some with shirts over them (split near the bottom).
* When Amy Rose first appeared in ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogCD'', her defining sexual characteristics are being pink (a contrast to Sonic's blue), eyelashes, and a skirt. When she was redesigned for ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'', her femininity was more emphasized by changing her hairstyle (up until then, it was exactly the same as Sonic's), giving her an actual bust size (she was changed from eight years old to twelve), and giving her large golden bracelets to wear on her wrists. [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics Archie]] gave her secondary characteristics. Played straight with most characters in the games, where the only differences are eyelashes and clothing styles.
* The main characters of ''VideoGame/{{Snipperclips}}'' seem to be male and female based solely on their tertiary traits. One of them wears a bowtie and sneakers, while the other has long eyelashes, and wears a scarf and flared heel boots.
* ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon'':
** In ''VideoGame/SpyroAHerosTail'', girl dragon (and {{expy}} of Amy Rose) Ember is [[PinkGirlBlueBoy pink]], has a necklace, and has a heart-shaped tail tip. Spyro and Flame on the other hand are purple and bright red.
** In ''VideoGame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon'', some of the female dragons hatch out of their eggs ''already wearing a bow''.
* ''VideoGame/StarFoxZero'' features a pink colored vixen. She also has a TuftOfHeadFur, though not the FurryFemaleMane Krystal has.
* ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' has human females and thus through their figures and clothing it is easy to tell their genders. The girls do however have a trait the men don't in that they are not allowed to look unpresentable thus they don't [[https://i.imgur.com/IylRUes.jpg appear goofy]] or their [[https://i.imgur.com/pSKBdGe.jpg jaws do not deform]] when hit by certain attacks.
* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
** Wendy O. Koopa has a pink hairbow, a pink shell, makeup, jewelry and high heels. Interestingly, despite being the only female Koopaling, Wendy is one of only two Koopalings with no hair.
** Pom Pom, a feminized version of Boom Boom. Even her ''boomerangs'' have bows on them.
** A recurring quest in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'' requires the player to capture a Goomba and meet up with another, female Goomba somewhere in the kingdom. You can tell she's a girl because she has long eyelashes, {{blush sticker}}s, wears a bow on her sun hat, and--oh yeah--is pink. (Actually, she looks a lot like [[VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor Goombella]].
** ''VideoGame/MarioPartyAdvance'':
*** Played straight with Goombob and Goombetty, a pair of Galoomba school friends. Goombob looks like a regular Galoomba, but the female Goombetty wears a bow.
*** Downplayed with Bob-omba. She's pink and she's a girl, but she's specifically a Bob-omb Buddy, who are ''always'' pink regardless of gender. However, she also has a male Bob-omb friend who's a regular black-colored Bob-omb.
*** Averted with Akiki. She's a female Ukiki, but she has the same sprite as her uncle.
** ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime'': The female Chain Chomp that sometimes appears when the Pocket Chomp item is used has a bow on its head.
* Averted in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG''. At one point Mario and company encounter a Chain Chomp visually identical to every other Chain Chomp in the game. Bowser however is easily able to determine that it is a girl and then "acquires" her as a weapon that he can hurl at enemies.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Twinbee}}'', one of the ships (not just the pilot of said ship, [[LivingShip the ship itself]]) is female. How can you tell? Winbee is pink. Later installments have also shown that her cockpit is shaped like a heart, though this is somewhat excused - with two rounded bumps on top, it also shows she's the second 'bee ship. Twinbee, the original, has a round cockpit (one "bump"), while Gwinbee, the third, appears to have a rounded arrow pointing down (three bumps on the top part of the cockpit).
* The Flash game ''Vision by Proxy'' is about a round blue alien with one big eye, who looks like a blue [[WesternAnimation/MonstersInc Mike Wasowski]]. The sequel ''Ms Vision By Proxy'' is about a round pink alien with one big eye, a bow on her head and, for some reason, a belt. Taking it up a level, the alien from the first game appears in the opening cut scene and has grown a moustache.
* Throughout the ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade|Chronicles1}} [[VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX Chron]][[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2 icles]]'' series, determining the gender of Nopon (who are all shaped like furry spheres) comes down to contextual clues. In ''2'', Zeke reveals that this applies InUniverse as well, stating most people can only tell Nopon boys from girls by their clothing. The boot is on both feet, however, as the same scene reveals party member Tora thought Mòrag was a man. She takes it quite personally (while she does speak with a gruff tone and is never seen out of her military uniform, a human would be unlikely to make that mistake). The setting even takes pronouns into account: in Japanese, Mòrag uses collective or masculine pronouns as befits her rank; in English, the [[YouNoTakeCandle Noponic dialect]] doesn't use them, so Tora never knew the difference between "he" and "she".
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