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Has anyone noticed and pokemon that should only be single gender? I have, like the Lopunny males still look SO feminate. Yet they're males, not females. I'd understand if it was a female only pokemon, but it's strill creepy. And what about the Machop line? They all look like males, including the females. I think they should be made to be only males also...
 
The Machop line should've been given sprites that made them look like they were wearing full-body swimsuits, or at least a bikini. The male Lopunny could stand to lose the curves...
Hey, I have an idea -- how about we post art here of what we think the gender of a certian pokemon should look like? ^_^
 
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I... ah... I actually like things the way they are, as far as the gender thing goes. It lends a certain humor to the world of Pokemon, really.

And really, if you think about it, RL animals don't exactly have the same gender standards as people do(Take birds for example: Usually, male birds are 'prettier' and more brightly colored than females, which is pretty much the opposite of what people would think, no?), so why should Pokemon?

Besides, female Machamp and male Gardevoir are always good for lulz. XD
 
Male Gardevoir x male Lopunny with Jynx watching and squeeing = the Pokemon equivalent of 00berfem!bishie yaoi + its fangirls.

P.S. I'm glad nobody mentioned Mr. Mime yet because that's nothing more than shortsightedness on the part of the English translators who thought it'd be okay to go with a gendered name back when Pokemon had no genders. Its Japanese name of Bariyaado is gender-neutral, and its appearance could really go either way, though I know a lot of people think of it as the "counterpart" to Jynx from the days of R/B/Y and therefore that biases them into feeling it should be male.
 
I got no problem with femenine male Pokemon. I would like to see something in a Pokemon game concerning breeding and Ditto, though--perhaps Pokemon with only one gender or a neutral gender tend to cluster or migrate to places where Ditto flourish, in order to reproduce. Ditto could be the Pokemon equivalent of a bee, "pollinating" or being "pollinated" to propagate species that can't reproduce themselves. I apologize for the terrible mental imagery.

I'd like to see some more extreme sexual dimorphism in newer Pokemon, actually. The closest we have in the current games is Nidoran male and Nidoran female. It'd be really neat if (say) Plamush, the plague mushroom, only came in female, as did its evolution, Virucol... but if you left it in a Pokemon daycare, and it levelled up, you get a Plamush egg. Why? Because male Plamush/Virucol are tiny parasites that live inside the female's bloodstream.
 
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P.S. I'm glad nobody mentioned Mr. Mime yet because that's nothing more than shortsightedness on the part of the English translators who thought it'd be okay to go with a gendered name back when Pokemon had no genders. Its Japanese name of Bariyaado is gender-neutral, and its appearance could really go either way, though I know a lot of people think of it as the "counterpart" to Jynx from the days of R/B/Y and therefore that biases them into feeling it should be male.
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Well, IRL, we refer to all peacocks as peacocks, although technically speaking that's refering to males only and the term for females is peahen, and the correct term for the species is peafowl. :/
 
I don't really mind, except for the Abra line. They could've at least shaved them...

...but that's what trainers are for! Did anyone ever think of that? 8B
 
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Hey, I know it seems random that this be my first post, but I'm new here! Anyway, let's get right to it.

This topic has confounded me as well. It's nothing to lose sleep over, but I see everyone's point. I don't mind male lopunnies, but I've always thought that female machokes and machamps (machop is really pretty neutral-looking, to me), they could be given a sports bra or something to suggest their femininity; they're so very human-like!
Now, I'm sorely disappointed that kangaskhan are still female-only. It would surely be an easy-enough airbrush technique to simply rub out the pouch and joey on the sprite's belly, making them passably male. I refuse to accept that there are no male kangaskhan, it's just silly; but like I said, I won't be losing sleep over it.
I suppose female-only gardevoir would be nice, now that there is a male-only counterpart, but then you could use the Pal Park to port over a male gardevoir and that wouldn't function. As for adding male kangaskhan, I don't see why they couldn't do that; all previous games can port over just females, but males could also be found in the new games. It'd be nifty if they add that kangaskhan joey as a baby-stage pokémon as well, but that's another topic.
At least kadabra and alakazam have shorter staches now; and like someone else said, they may have different standards.
Of course, I think it's all to be taken with a grain of salt. In my mind, not EVERY species of pokémon lays eggs. Surely most of the very plant-like would lay seeds for newborns such as budew, sunkern, and the like. And surely the mammalian critters would have live birth. A dog egg? Not in my book! But I figure the egg system is merely here for playability and mechanics.
 
I don't see a problem with "masculine" and "feminine" Pokemon of the "wrong" gender. They're not human, so don't hold them to the same gender standards as humans. Common sense.

Single-gender Pokemon are tricky, to be sure. Females don't seem to have a problem because Pokemon offspring are ALWAYS the species of the mother(or, in the case of Ditto breeding, whichever Pokemon isn't Ditto), but males have bigger issues.
The Ditto theory is interesting in the case of male-only species, although as was said, the male-only Pokes don't congregate around Ditto-filled areas. Then again, the only male-only Pokemon are...the Tyrogue line, Gallade(its base forms are both genders, so it assumedly breeds with female Gardevoir to produce more Ralts), the male Nidos(which presumably breed with the females, and the eggs hatch into either gender), Volbeat(same as the Nidos, only with Illumise as the female), Tauros(see before, substitute Miltank), Latios(doesn't breed anyway), and Mothim(can breed with its female counterpart to make a Burmy, which evolves into either depending on gender).
Unless I'm forgetting something, the only problem is the Tyrogue line. They don't seem to occur naturally in the wild, although the anime suggests they live in the mountains, where you don't generally find Ditto. Then again, Ditto can apparently transform into inanimate objects, so maybe all the mountain Ditto hide as boulders or something? :p
 
Did anyone even think of gender-changing animals? Why can't certain Pokemon change their own gender? I know that a certain fish (I think it's a Parrot Fish, but I'm not too sure) can change its gender at will. Why can't certain Pokemon be able to change their gender? Also, even some male animals have a feminine appearance and some females have a masculine appearance.
 
I suppose it's fine to accept another machoke/machamp standard of appearance, it just seems that the females would need something to feed their babies with, since the rest of the body so closely matches humans and other near-humanoid mammals (I guess that's just apes, though).
Juputoru made a good point about tyrogue and its evolutions. I don't see why they're all-male and yet the machop family isn't; I can see hitmonchan as passably female, and the other three look fairly androgenous. Oh well, at least it gives us something to talk about.
 
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I don't see a problem with "masculine" and "feminine" Pokemon of the "wrong" gender. They're not human, so don't hold them to the same gender standards as humans. Common sense.

Single-gender Pokemon are tricky, to be sure. Females don't seem to have a problem because Pokemon offspring are ALWAYS the species of the mother(or, in the case of Ditto breeding, whichever Pokemon isn't Ditto), but males have bigger issues.
The Ditto theory is interesting in the case of male-only species, although as was said, the male-only Pokes don't congregate around Ditto-filled areas. Then again, the only male-only Pokemon are...the Tyrogue line, Gallade(its base forms are both genders, so it assumedly breeds with female Gardevoir to produce more Ralts), the male Nidos(which presumably breed with the females, and the eggs hatch into either gender), Volbeat(same as the Nidos, only with Illumise as the female), Tauros(see before, substitute Miltank), Latios(doesn't breed anyway), and Mothim(can breed with its female counterpart to make a Burmy, which evolves into either depending on gender).
Unless I'm forgetting something, the only problem is the Tyrogue line. They don't seem to occur naturally in the wild, although the anime suggests they live in the mountains, where you don't generally find Ditto. Then again, Ditto can apparently transform into inanimate objects, so maybe all the mountain Ditto hide as boulders or something? :p
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wait, I thought the Nidoran/Bulbeet/Illumise rule didn't apply to Kentauros and Miltank, for whatever reason. Anyway, I sure do pity the Barukii evos if that's the case... imagine living a lifestyle where you have to hump the nearest rock to keep your species alive.

BTW, don't you think you're leaving genderless Pokemon out of your equation? Hell, they can't even breed with anything except Metamon, not even with their own kind, apparently.
 
While you're talking about Alakazam's mustaches, why not have female Probopasses not have the same magnetic properties as male Probopasses, and therefore not collect the magnetic mustahce?

And someone on SPPf suggested that Metagross and Metang construct their young Beldum. That would work for Magneton and Magnezone, and Porygon/Porygon2/Porygon-Z are virtual, and therefore would have young by programming, or being programmed, or (most likely) just by scientists creating more Porygon.

As for Tyrogue, I have no idea.

Machamp in a bikini? The image invoked by that earns a big "WTF" sign.
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I used to think Hitmonchan was female and Hitmonlee was male. I also thought Growlithe was male and Vulpix was his female counterpart. Then again I was seven and I thought Porygon was Eevee evolved with a moonstone. Personally I think they should make more pokemon one gender only and introduce their opposite sex counterparts. Like female Machops, Mrs. Mimes, Male Jynx, a Male Milotic made by maxing out toughness...
 
The "Mr." in Mr. Mime should not really be there. It's Japanese name doesn't use a gender reference in it, so it can be male or female. Jynx being a male? I can't even imagine that.
 
i know Mr. Mime isn't supposed to me Mr but I just want a Jester type female pokemon to go along with him. I always imagine a Male Jynx as some kind of Viking warrior.
 
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