Genderqueer Characters

Here’s a list of characters from books, comics/manga, video games and TV who are genderqueer, non-binary, genderfluid or otherwise not a man or a woman. (Whether it be explicit or implicit.)

Professor Hilary Tamar

The title character and narratar in the Hilary Tamar series, written by Sarah Caudwell. Hilary is a unisex name (swinging from historically male to comtemporarily female) and the sex of Professor Tamar is never revealed.

Mystique

The blue shapeshifter in X-Men. Whilst she is generally refered to as female and/or a woman, the fact that her power is shapeshifting (often to resemble other people) means that she can change her sex at will.

Jack/Jill McTeague

The main character of Cycler and (re)cycler, by Lauren McLaughlin. Jill is a high school graduate who, despite being female and identifying as a woman, turns into a male man called Jack for four days of each month.

Naoto Shirogane

A playable character in the game Persona 4. She has quite an androgynous appearance, and is the only character to have a Persona of the opposite sex. At one point, Naoto expresses the desire to be a man rather than a girl, though she later realises what she truly wants is to find her ‘true self’.

Yoshi

The dinosaur character in the Super Mario games. All sources claim Yoshi is a he, although his ability to lay eggs indicates he must be female. Yoshi is a Japanese name that is variously cited as male, female and unisex.

Xavin

A Skrull shapeshifter from the Marvel Comics Universe who joined the Runaways during Brian K Vaughn’s run, initially presenting as male, but shifting to female for hir bride-to-be Karolina, a lesbian. Showed no qualms about being gender and sex fluid, shifting between male and female easily, until Joss Whedon showed up and messed up Vaughn’s characterization. But we don’t talk about the Runaways after Joss Whedon shows up.

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Chibi Italy / Chibitalia

A gender neutral chibi in Hetalia, Chibi Italy is male-bodied but wears women’s clothes. Hus behaviour is feminine, but as hus gender is never disclosed, hu grows up as a feminine man.

Grencia Mars Elijah Guo Eckener

A DMAB man from the Cowboy Bebop series, he is made to take an experimental drug which gives him a more female-appearing body. Later, he identifies as both at once and neither.

BMO

Finn and Jake’s living computer and all-electrical-role-item in Adventure Time, he/she is refered to as he or she throughout the series.

JD

From Shades of A, a webcomic.

Cybersix

By day, Adrian Seidelman is a normal male High School teacher, but at night becomes the feminine Cybersix, title character of a cartoon and comic.

“Protagonist”

The unnamed protaganist of the game Miserere, their gender is never revealed. This never comes up as a major plot factor, and they are revealed to be part alien.

Crona

A major antagonist in Soul Eater, Crona is a demon sword master who’s gender is left ambiguous.

Loki

Both in the mythology and the Marvel universe, Loki is a male-identified, male-presenting god. He is also a shapeshifter, and regularly transforms into female animals; at least once he became pregnant as a female animal, giving birth to demi-god animals.