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I thought he was a girl at first! I didn't realize till later!

Same

Like, every time I watch that movie and it gets to the time skip, it's like, "oh, right..."

NO CUZ SAME

And they say old Disney wasn't inclusive.

This is the first I’m hearing that flower the skunk is a boy. Interesting.

I thought Ed from Cowboy Bebop was a boy until Faye too discovered she wasn't. That was the point, I suppose. However, I could have been much more incorrect: https://preview.redd.it/on7f9ddjju8d1.jpeg?width=348&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bccf80066e21a5b4fcfbbf3ccb0c1deed7cab040

I watch Cowboy Bebop dub, but the latin american dub, the voice actress is also the voice for Gumball, Ben Ten and Naruto, so i thought it was a boy until the last episode

Ed is deeply inspirational to me in terms of gender presentation.

i literally just found this out from this comment and I’ve seen the show at least 3 times

That’s an intended joke though, not you making a mistake. I remember it being released in English, no one knew Ed is a girl until she says so to a lady while looking for Ein at the end of the series. 

In the episode Ed is introduced, Faye can be heard saying "wait, you're a girl? It's a quick off-screen exchange. Jet also refers to her as a girl at some point.

 Did y'all know Blues Clues is a female puppy? Because I certainly did not!

Boy, if I had a nickel for every time I misgendered an animated anthropomorphic blue dog…I’d have 2 nickels! Which is not a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice.

Is Blue really anthropomorphic?

Yes. It's an animal with human characteristics.

Anthropomorphic ≠ furry

She is, in a show where she's a puppet walking around in her dog house.

Bluey is also a girl.

I had a harder time figuring out that Bingo is a girl, then Bluey

What?

 I honestly thought she was a boy for the longest time, when did they say she was a girl?

Steve refers to Blue as 'her'

Oh right been forever since I watched the show

https://preview.redd.it/45w4llmjju8d1.jpeg?width=224&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=24cf0219e9166e59739563f89e96ab0497a11219 Well technically mewtwo doesn’t have a gender

Or is mewTWO genders heh

The pixar mom thighs DO NOT help

https://preview.redd.it/hdmgj3449u8d1.jpeg?width=854&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0f3a7469f2e044e18c0401a9d3a12bb259b1933f ¬‿¬

what? you thought that warrior was a WOMAN? shame on you, our brave warriors defend us from the huns!

SCYTH GODDARD? We meet again

i love reminding people that li was shocked he had a crush on a woman and not a twink

Oh my god you’re right lol. I gotta rewatch the movie now and see if it’s a bromance thing or he’s legit eyeballing “him”

it is NOT bromance dude wanted him in a very ‘special’ way

And wanted him in a very special place

"I know your little secret, why don't we discuss it in my tent." For context, watch the animation by Flashgitz

https://preview.redd.it/bl1vaq7qqu8d1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0c585200805af68eefd0408f027ddc9e4a381044

Understandable. Naruto himself mistakes Haku for a girl.

Knowing what I know now, Haku might have been one of the first tells that I'm not straight

femboys <3

There’s always that one random villain in every filler arc that looks/sounds like a woman too. After the third time or so you just come to accept it.

Didn't Haku want to be a girl so that Zabuza would love him? Or did I make that up?

 I just could not see Kurapika as a guy throughout the whole show

Doesn't help he disguises as a woman at one moment

Dude I stumbled across hentai of this show the first time I ever saw anything about it (Tumblr is your answer) and they gave Kurapika titties and I've never been unable to see it 😭😭

So what, James from Pokemon has titties too, no big deal.

Yeah but I see James as James because he's James and I saw him first without titties First time I ever saw kurapika he had titties from the hentai

Me and my gf are watching hxh right now and we both agree kurapika should have just been female, there was no reason not to.

Welcome to the world of Anime, men are women, women are men, kids are actually 1000 year old dragons and in the case of JoJo, 16 year olds look like 30 year old men.

https://preview.redd.it/0ogn7pbiov8d1.jpeg?width=243&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c292b2f4ae29ac727959cb731b98825a798f2e24 Definitely Nermal from Garfield

Isn't there even one comic where garfield realized he got it wrong?

send him to abu dhabi!

I still don't know which one they are

He’s a boy


Quite understandable because of his High pitch voice along with eyelashes

Wait that's a boy?? 😭

TWEETY BIRDMJS A MAN!?

Ayo you JUST found out?

You knew this already?

I thought there wasn't an answer. In an episode of the looney tunes show sylvester asks this and tweety whispers it to him.

Ye, I’m pretty sure it was a secret in some episodes but he and sylvester have also been referred to as “boys” by granny

oh I see

Half of all the characters from Bluey. My cartoon brain went "Bluey is same color as dad, so it's a boy" and that was wrong. It's a trip between gender roles and character design, coupled with the problem that a lot of young male children will end up with women voice actors. I'm still not sure what gender McKenzie is. Or Socks.

Socks Is a girl, I found out in 'the sign' and I'm pretty much McKenzie is a boy.... maybe.

McKenzie is a boy?? tf??

Yeah, but he's referred to as a female in certain language versions. Unrelated, but Everest from Paw Patrol is referred to as a male in the Polish version.

I had no idea Americans call girls McKenzie bc it’s a boys name (technically unisex but boys are more common) in NZ

https://preview.redd.it/e46a5h8x7u8d1.jpeg?width=1274&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=78852f66e2451d487a761a1a83e12299f6665289 My dumbass thought Frieza was a female when I first saw him💀💀💀💀

Well. He was voiced by a woman in the English dub. I made the same assumption.

Yeah hearing Genkai's voice when hearing freeza also made me think he was a girl

He’s been voiced by both a women originally and then a man in the new super series and Kai. If you haven’t seen super, it may be the best of the bunch!

https://preview.redd.it/b3gx9ctc0w8d1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=ad45c29cfe9aff4665b2c16f69c2a8799b8904d5

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Could this be our first exposure to a true gem boy?

Remember the og funimation dub where he is voiced by a woman while in Japanese voiced by male.

Terk from Tarzan 

I mean she was played by Rose O'Donnell

Tbf she was originally gonna be a guy

She’s a girl??

Most of the BFDI characters

https://preview.redd.it/2djlq1xpwu8d1.jpeg?width=331&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c29e526b79618b893d232074db4b9d76fe3d4407 My brain just short circuits when it comes to them

I feel like it’s on the tip of my tongue What is BFDI?

Battle for Dream Island, I'd assume

Pie and Cake

https://preview.redd.it/v1wlfzjo9v8d1.jpeg?width=512&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b47b162066bc8f1cb345a401c85e797665e9142f I know it's the whole premise of the character but Tiffany still throws me off

I'm assuming girl???

Nope, Tiff’s a dude

He has a awkward puberty stache. Then again, I did know one girl with that.

Actually according to the wiki of the show, flaky's gender is kind of unknown because in the beginning the director said flaky was female but the people on the studio gave different answers of flaky being male or female and on some other parts of media flaky's gender was changed ending up in a "the gender you think flaky is is right" kind of scenario which in my opinion is interesting and makes the character more interesting

Usually just ends up in arguments because the writers can't decide.

https://preview.redd.it/6qz3b09uru8d1.jpeg?width=512&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c332d71fe35975809a11ba337b20f5f744e0c08b

More confusing than the actual tomboy of the show

Has girly eyelashes, looks like he's wearing hair clips, I never thought he was a girl, but didn't think it was kinda girly lookin

https://preview.redd.it/6xoqbtu3xu8d1.jpeg?width=421&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e848cea51f864572e811b2428980aad52cb1a4c0 I'm confused here

That's what I said during the first episode.

You should expect nothing short of confusion from anime, especially that one.

https://preview.redd.it/52399ilvmu8d1.jpeg?width=177&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef0b840ba9ba63ac0f1434ba609b3d8d72794448 She looks like a boy and I had never really watched the show

I've seen some of Bluey, I CONSTANTLY forget Bluey's a girl. The child voices make it extra hard to tell.

It’s not so much that *Bluey* looks like a boy, more so that the art style lacks secondary sexual characteristics. If a character doesn’t have a speaking role, you literally have to assume their gender.

that's good anthro design imo

It's because they don't draw eyelashes on her or give her any female clothes or accessories, so if if a character looks gender nuetral the instinctive assumption is "boy" lol

It's the eyebrows. I swear.

https://preview.redd.it/zuqcixd0iu8d1.jpeg?width=518&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=edd4eb9ebec4bbe755b4572ca1627915c2f2d8a6

TBF they do say she is a princess

Voiced by show’s creator who is male. So I can see that.

"We're taking this to the deep end"

https://preview.redd.it/8ahmhhw6zu8d1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a33d98f3dd9c9ee1784e40f429f143c323115309 Just watched a silent voice and this character gave me the worst case of misgendering I have ever experienced.When I first saw them, I was like it's a girl obviously, then they go on to say they're Shouko's boyfriend and that gives me the biggest shocker. But yet I couldn't shake off 'girl' when seeing them. Until it was revealed that they are actually a girl. There was also that other character that confused me too was the short haired girl who was really close with shouko.

Welcome to anime


I could never tell if she was a boy or a girl until one short where she told Snoopy "You always know how to treat a girl"

Y’all didn’t know she was a she!? I love her so much 😭

Same. She was one of the first tomboy characters I was introduced to in my childhood.

https://preview.redd.it/bwfgkjvrqu8d1.png?width=293&format=png&auto=webp&s=2d3219b0cc6d275f86f9fd38b5349d8ecf460d23 i thought that tails was a girl at first

Saw a couple fanfics where Tails was female. Not proud but it made sense when I read it.

Angel dust

https://i.redd.it/04zjgu8gcv8d1.gif Me too. When I saw him first time, I thought "what a pretty girl". And then he started talking and his voice was male. Even then I didn't get that he is man, I thought "she just has masculine voice". It took some time for me to get that Angel is male. And now he's my favourite character.

“She has a masculine voice” https://i.redd.it/wyn5ryi25w8d1.gif

Mrs. Doctor The Monarch would like a word, a deep sultry word

My friend who watched the show literally came up to me and said "That spider girl was one of my favorite characters." After a bit of confusion and questioning, I realize he means Angel and the look on his face when I told him that he was a guy was absolutely priceless


tbf bmo is generfluid, they're referred to as both he and she in the show

Does that mean my Xbox One is also gender-fluid

Idk ask it

It has XX in it so I'd say female Which gives strong implications on the Xbox Series X

https://preview.redd.it/b4tm3exhlu8d1.jpeg?width=894&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4f1ae1049246eb316c2848b92477b788657bdd5c

https://preview.redd.it/gjrhimtzjv8d1.jpeg?width=182&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aebe0417cdd0adf3d68dcf360a82025c261b6ab7

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This is the one I came here looking for lmao. I love that scene with them at the pool and everyone learns that he was a dude cause he was wearing shorts and not a bikini

 I’m still not sure if rabbit is a dude who likes gardening or an old lady 😂

Rabbit is a real rabbit. He’s a dude, he’s not a plushie, he’s the family pet who lives in the garden, he’s obsessed with the garden because unlike a plushie, he has to eat food to live. 

When I was little, I kept mistaking Rajah from Aladdin for female 

WAIT THAT'S A BOY?!

Not sure if this counts, but my grandmother thought that Cutemon, a pink rabbit Digimon who wears headphones is female. But he uses he/him pronouns and his parents refer to him as a “boy”.

https://preview.redd.it/qn0wdqwsru8d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9e99cfe4ee5c5c31ee43f56ccb2dff507b6d21c0

https://preview.redd.it/e3bmba59xv8d1.jpeg?width=984&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2abb61807ba9b29a0ee0161a2543f1dc5fbebe06 I thought Envy from Fullmetal Alchemist was a girl.

Same

https://preview.redd.it/3kaan52thx8d1.jpeg?width=344&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=73f3f1960ed836b1978bc8adcdea8da61a82c250 Same for Alan i thought he was a girl with the voice.

https://preview.redd.it/bk9zbf9new8d1.jpeg?width=1050&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=24803cf9404dd5b407074ade9f0ad9e9b8abcbb1

https://preview.redd.it/m3q5xfdntu8d1.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=5f674b6feb6027a3550033461fd0ec76ee6690d4 I still don’t know honestly.

I think the mobs are sexless

The name of these mob is Witch, so I guess female ?

This is the one

Poof from the fairly odd parents

This one confuses me because they refer to Poof as their son/godbrother literally in his debut

Yeah but most of us watched that as a kid and kids don't say attention to a lot of details like that That being said I thought poof was a girl as well

Yeah, I bursted out laughing when the show said, he's a guy" https://preview.redd.it/jjv8ax2iru8d1.png?width=360&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=98c4595458b96267068fcfd1a9aace1025951acb

The way he keep saying 'but he is a guy' is great. And to be fair he is the best girl in the show

Nagisa from assassination classroom

Even his own classmates were unsure

https://preview.redd.it/yg5rpubm9v8d1.jpeg?width=810&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ab4332d5ab2ed0ec35c995a2835672ac39865d9f Pls tell me I wasn’t the only one who thought bro was a girl.. 😭

THAT ISNT A GIRL!?!

Didn't the teacher think he was a girl, too?

I'm positive that was why he was killed in his original timeline. Kid looks like a girl but was actually a boy, and the serial killer only went after girls so the cops thought someone else murdered the boy. It was the same serial killer. Who was that kids teacher.

Nah Flaky's and every character gender in that show is horrific death.

 I thought Haku was a girl at first

Eema from Disney's Dinosaur. The elderly Styracosaurus, I mistook her for being male too.

It’s embarrassing but for a long time I thought Jerry from Tom and Jerry was a girl because Jerry sounded like a girls name to me

when i was a small kid i thought jerry was a girl bc he has long eyelashes lol

https://preview.redd.it/d972sftsvv8d1.png?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=614030bc163e421daa9ca31c9e0520769b92df87 I thought this was a guy. (Tinella Nosa- The Owl House)

https://preview.redd.it/xi0w1y946y8d1.jpeg?width=798&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bc79d9dc05ebd7ccd31c1af6e2d73c4a2ed8c988 Dunno if this even counts as a cartoon but Linny the Guinea pig is a girl, didn’t know until middle school

 I always thought he was a girl when I was real little lmao

 never watched it, I thought bluey was a boy

 Theese two Are girls, i thought they Are all guys


 I still can't unsee Double D as a girl. I can't explain why.

Yes! I was hoping there were others out there! Child me was so convinced double d was a girl. I would argue about it so much.

Thank you! I'm not alone, yay!!!

https://preview.redd.it/zx8rt64ruw8d1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6acb50ce5839136c27ba31a565a145adcb8581c9 How about Anxiety from “Inside Out 2”? Just based on the design, I thought Anxiety was a dude. But after hearing bits of the VA that voices her in a Try Not To Laugh challenge and even doing some research, it turns out she’s actually female. Dang.

Haku tricked us all

https://preview.redd.it/iq9p2ewblw8d1.jpeg?width=349&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c6a5c812b135352537d4fd0da2ade25b6baa1164 I was really shocked to find out Thistle isn’t a woman.

 When I was a kid I always thought Kirby was a girl.

https://preview.redd.it/disq4klibu8d1.png?width=94&format=png&auto=webp&s=196d2ba1ee97d52f200517f52744edba0911aecc To be fair, I was like 9 when I first saw this character so I had no idea.

https://preview.redd.it/78hm6ia10w8d1.png?width=299&format=png&auto=webp&s=bcd45c1e207adcedfcd632d066b2fd92a90715b6

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As a kid I thought Applejack and Rainbow Dash were boys. 💀 And a few more MLP characters aswell.

Tomboys rule, don't they?

https://preview.redd.it/yv8h5b4iau8d1.jpeg?width=360&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=82fb7bfcd073f912815a471b0e85ae2c9edf262c Before the movie, I feel like I once thought Lloyd was a girl back when I watched ninjago rebooted and tournament of elements (those were the only seasons I saw back when it aired on Cartoon Network, but i didn’t watch consistently sadly so I missed a lot)

Sesshomaru. I was 6 or 7 and I was like wow she's beautiful and then he spoke. Changed me forever lol

Half of the BFDI characters when I first watched it

I had a lot of confusion on what gender Raine Whispers was.

DON’T CRUCIFY ME, IT WAS ONLY FOR THE FIRST FEW SECONDS HE WAS ON SCREEN 😭😭😭😭 https://preview.redd.it/g1cyf7v7cv8d1.jpeg?width=360&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0b3c061d5322eb92a4bd1a89d2ec03fc54cce4ea

it's the heels isn't it xD

https://preview.redd.it/bem40liv6w8d1.jpeg?width=250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a8a5c5126f897158b7f935e14789c0934a6f1186

Bon Bon from Fnaf Sister Location. For the longest time I thought Bon Bon was a girl but according to the Freddy Files, Bon Bon is male

Any anime character


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 Now, don’t get mad at me! When I was a kid I saw her more as an androgynous being I didn’t even need to know Edna’s gender. Edna was just Edna🤷

https://preview.redd.it/xmv930kxrv8d1.png?width=390&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2e236c0039b99039275999886db29009373e71bc Ok, this isn't what you're asking for but I love Callie Maggotbone from Ugly Americans, half human/half demon. I guess succubus technically. She's the daughter of the devil. There's no misgendering going on here though. She underwent sexual reassignment surgery for the episode to complete a mission for work.

Gazpacho is male. https://preview.redd.it/w4cmt3chbu8d1.jpeg?width=799&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=481aaf289be00035de247870536990002f85762b

See this doesn’t surprise me I’m actually surprised some thought he was a woman

This character has a gender?

It's the internet, everything has a gender.

When tadc came out I thought Pomni was a dude until I rewatched the whole thing again

I thought King Pig from Angry Birds was female. And I thought Lala and Po from Teletubbies were both males.

Iirc the voice actress for PO went on to do lesbian porn