List of fictional intersex characters

Intersex people are born with sex characteristics, such as genitals, gonads and chromosome patterns, "that do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies".^[1]

This is a list of fictional intersex characters, along with their related stories and authors, and tropes.

List

A

• Amy, girlfriend of Ken Miller in Freaks and Geeks teen comedy/drama TV series.
• Annabel/Wayne, character in novel by Kathleen Winter.

B

• Cornelius Brunner, product of merger of Jerry Cornelius and Miss Brunner in Michael Moorcock's fantasy novel The Final Programme

C

• Vincent Clarkson, character in NBC/DirecTV soap opera Passions. Blackmailer, serial killer.
• Comet (DC Comics). Shapeshifter.
• Lauren Cooper, character in MTV scripted comedy Faking It
• Quentin Costa, character in Nip/Tuck. Doctor, product of incest, serial rapist.

D

• Desire, one of the Endless, from Neil Gaiman The Sandman, (DC Comics).

E

• Therem Harth rem ir Estraven, character in the science fiction novel The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin.

F

• Fawn Singleton Farrell, half-sister of main character Vidamía Farrell, in Edgardo Vega Yunqué's novel No Matter How Much You Promise to Cook or Pay the Rent You Blew It Cauze Bill Bailey Ain't Never Coming Home Again.

H

• Swan Er Hong, lead character in science fiction novel 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson.

I

• Ilario, lead character in alternate history novels by Mary Gentle.

K

• Keral, a member of an alien species in The World Wreckers science fiction novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley.
• Berg Katse, leader of evil organisation Galactor in the 1972 anime Science Ninja Team Gatchaman.

L

• Lauren in the MTV series Faking It.
• Laurence/Laurent in the novel The Hermaphrodite by Julia Ward Howe.

M

• Rebis, character in the comic series Doom Patrol.
• Ruby Moon, Manga character. Magical guardian.

P

• Richard Plantagenet, later Richard III of England in the manga Requiem of the Rose King, an adaptation of Richard III. Portrayed as intersex instead of hunchbacked as the character is normally depicted in the original play.

R

• Rachel (Friends TV sitcom) was rumored to be intersex in episode The One with the Rumor.

S

• Sailor Starlights, Manga characters.
• Jackson Smith, basketball player in The Softer Side episode of House (TV series).
• Spork lead character in the eponymous movie.
• Cal (or Callie) Stephanides in the novel Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. Product of incest.

T

• Thorn the Mannamavi, lead character in the historical novel Raptor by Gary Jennings. Amoral, lovers die.
• Bel Thorne, character in Vorkosigan Saga science fiction novels by Lois McMaster Bujold. Ship captain.
• Tintomara, character in classic Swedish novel Drottningens juvelsmycke (The Queen's Tiara) by Carl Jonas Love Almquist. Androgyne. Brings death.

W

• Fitz Wahram, character in science fiction novel 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson.
• Max Walker, lead character in novel Golden Boy by Abigail Tarttelin.

• Wraeththu, post-apocalyptic species in novels by Storm Constantine.

Y

• Sadako Yamamura, antagonist in novel by Koji Suzuki. Demigod, chaste.
• Yue, Manga character and guardian.

See also

• Films about intersex
• Literature about intersex
• Television works about intersex
• List of intersex people
• Lists of LGBT figures in fiction and myth

References

1. United Nations; Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (2015). Free & Equal Campaign Fact Sheet: Intersex (PDF).