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casualbird ([personal profile] casualbird) wrote2019-02-11 03:47 pm

a question

Please--if any of you know of any canonically non-binary characters in popular media, would you let me know? I'm thinking of writing a meta post about the sorry state of non-binary representation, and I'd like to see if I can't find some more evidence than I have right now.

Thank you!
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[personal profile] soc_puppet 2019-02-12 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
Oh! Pretty sure the Sailor Star Lights from the final season of Sailor Moon qualify in some way, and if we're going by the manga/Crystal, then there's a fair amount of evidence for Tenou Haruka as well, IMO.

There's also an old Argentinean cartoon called Cyber Six (very well done, as I recall, though I need to do a rewatch) that might qualify: The title character presents as male for their day job and as female when superheroing. I wanna say it's from the late nineties?

(There is absolutely a case to be made for the main human character of Pixar's Inside-Out, IMO, since every other character in the film has single gender "emotions" that match the gender they present as, but whether that counts as canon I can't say.)