This trope involves male characters who, despite entirely identifying as male and making no effort to seem otherwise, are frequently mistaken for female. Lady Looks Like a Dude · Girlish Pigtails · Wholesome Crossdresser · PlayingWith

This trope happens when The Hero or the Big Good of a story (or any other character on the good side), whom the player/viewer knows they pulled acts ...

The Lady Looks Like a Dude trope as used in popular culture. An unfeminine female character looks like or is mistaken for a male. Sometimes this is to show ...

Counterpart of the Damsel in Distress. He's usually the sidekick to a butt-kicking Action Girl, always getting himself captured for the female lead to save.

This guy is, like, Totally Radical! He's a lot like The Stoner, except mostly without the drugs. But, you know, he might smoke some pot once in a while.

They may have named the kid after their favourite fictional character, politician or something even goofier. They may think having a bully magnet name will help ...

An attempt at a joke on such subjects can easily come across as insulting, offensive, or cruel, earning the reaction, "Dude, not funny!"

The opposite of Lady Looks Like a Dude, this trope involves male characters who are frequently mistaken for female (by other characters).

The What's Up, King Dude? trope as used in popular culture. The phenomenon in fiction (primarily in High Fantasy) of commoners being allowed improbably free ...

I don't know if any of you peeps have heard of the shorebirds known as phalaropes, but the males of all three species are the epitome of this trope.