Often overlaps with Otherworldly and Sexually Ambiguous when a character is explicitly supernatural and this trait is used to emphasize it. Not to be mistaken for G-Rated Sex, but can overlap. Characters like this sometimes run into Pronoun Trouble if they don't identify with a specific gender (sometimes because options such as "zhe", "hir" have not yet reached mainstream penetration, though singular "they" has been documented in writing since 1375). However, this can be chalked up to people wanting to avoid the Unintentional Uncanny Valley when designing artificial intelligences.įinally, Intersex people have sexual characteristics, but they may be ambiguous or mixed, not fitting into either sex category. Oddly, this trope seems to rarely apply to robots and Mechanical Lifeforms, who have bodies and personality chips designed around either male or female parameters even though, by definition, these beings have no biological sex. If Everybody Wants the Hermaphrodite is in effect, they may, in fact, have a very active sex life. note No, we're not renaming this trope again. Note that due to a lack of alternate phrases in the English language, referring to characters as "sexless" does not mean that they're Asexual, which instead deals with sexual orientation and attraction, nor does it mean that a character does not or cannot have sex. This is frequently a trait of spirits and spiritual beings, who don't have physical bodies in the first place. They may identify as masculine or feminine, or they may have an entirely different gender identity. Whenever any characters have no genitals or secondary sex characteristics.
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