Mangle & Frisk syndrome all over again

One is X, one is ¬X. The problem is we don’t know what X is

@Background Pony #1D3E  
Yeah, that’s definitely the appropriate maturity level. Congratulations on getting a whole one thing right so far this month!

She’s female, I’m right you’re wrong

It’s like Tedd Verres all over again.

@neo4812  
who the hell would think crowler was female, that’s like saying yzma isn’t ugly

@neo4812  
Are you saying crona was “obviously male”? If so you couldn’t be more wrong, because technically, crona has been confirmed by okubo to be not gendered, he essentially never decided on one

@neo4812  
Just making a joke
 
But to me professor Crowler looked like a woman and I think I thought he was

@Applefai  
Professor Crowler from yu-gi-oh gx was clearly a dude also Crona from soul eater

@Applefai  

It just hit me that it could be an anime card.
 
Any side boy/girl character in Pokémon
 
Professor Crowler from yu-gi-oh gx
 
Kurapika from hunter x hunter
 
Pretty much the dude looks like a lady thing we see in some cartoons and most anime

@Background Pony #EDE2  
I agree.

@Princess Luna  
Honestly, Princess… I really enjoy the idea of a colt so cute he could be a filly. It makes him an interesting character, instead of just Pinkie Pie v2.0 now with cream cheese filling.

Try and keep this civil and stick to the actual matter being discussed, everyone. Some comments had to be deleted because they were getting far into ad hominem. The image is about him looking like a filly, not about who’s stupid or not.
 
@Dave33333  
In keeping with the facts and such, do note the script uses male pronouns almost immediately on his introduction:  

 
This action line however is not in the final product (instead he makes funny noises with Boneless 6; it appears storyboarders had great freedom in FiM’s production). There is also an argument to be had on whether using male pronouns counts, given a tendency in many writing styles to use them for unknown sex.
 
 
Also, on reflection, I’ve realized that as far as I’m aware, this is the only line in the script indicating his sex, and also the only line in all of FiM’s scripts with the word ‘fart’…everyone is effectively arguing over whether the only ‘fart’ line in the entire series’ script is definitive canon over the customary implications of its onscreen result.  
I recommend taking this as symbolic, in that we shouldn’t take the matter so seriously.

@Dave33333  
this is mangle from FNAF all over again

@Dave33333  
The character was animated as female  
That’s never been a universal standard, though, especially with fillies and colts. That’s one of the main reasons all of this artificial folderol over a one-scene character with no lines is getting so much pushback; the whole “looks like a filly, MUST be a filly” thing that the yellers are insisting on has never actually been true.

Actually, the rule 63 version should have a more “square” snout, as opposed to the more rounded female snout.

@Dave33333  
actually the writer said that gender was neutral but used to male words anyway Jim Miller the storyboard director is the one saying it’s male

The character was animated as female.
 
The script showed that the character is gender neutral.
 
The writer says the character is male.
 
These are the facts, this is the division, here you go.

you know all this bitching about a character’s gender reminds me of a ep of loyd in space where they meet a kid that doesn’t have a gender but gets to decide on there I think it was there 10 b-day and at the end of the ep they say they pick a gen but wont tell anyone until they get a crush on one of main character’s. that was a funny ep and it predicted the future of how people freak out over small shit like guessing someone’s gender

@Chopsticks  
A director’s only capacity is to follow a script as best as possible  
If you’d watched the Making Of special that aired alongside the Series Finale, you would have seen Big Jim in the recording booth making changes to the script in real time. I don’t know where you’re getting the idea that directors are somehow slaves to the whims of writers and scripts, but pretty much the entire film and television industry is built around exactly the opposite, especially with multiple author franchise productions like FIM; it’s not difficult at all to find stories online of writers for TV series bitching about having their scripts hacked up, and it baffles me that you would even make such a claim when M.A. Larson is standing right over there telling anyone who asks that he wrote a completely different Magical Mystery Cure than the one which aired.

@TexasUberAlles  
You probably don’t realize this, but you’re self-declaring the hierarchy of authority and cherry-picking your source. A director’s only capacity is to follow a script as best as possible. Fyi, directors are not at the top of the food chain. Directors don’t read the script and then do whatever they want; you’re mistaking the producer for the director.
 
Directors generally do not have power to make drastic or absolute changes to a finalized script; they answer to the producer who makes the final decisions and accepts / rejects scripts. Then the producer hands their approved version and notes of the script to the director who is then ordered to follow it as closely as possible to the best of ability within the time limit and resources available. Even so, if he wanted it clear that Li’l Cheese were a boy, they obviously would’ve taken off the eyelashes, but that wasn’t a concern. That automatically means he left it open to interpretation to the character design art team.
 
Besides that, the information I’ve gathered, Big Jim never stepped in and authoritatively declared that he’s a boy. Jim was making a reference to the script and stated he had made an assumption. So he essentially pointed back at the script and the writing team verified that the ‘he’ pronoun was used as a placeholder but was not explicitly meant to be boy or girl.
 
But ultimately, writers are a “tier” above the director; they create the inherent and intended content that everyone else falls in line with to follow. The producer has the ability to ask for changes and in a sense has more authority, but producers don’t write the content, just dictate what the goals are and assesses if the script falls in line with those goals.
 
The director’s only job is to follow what’s on the script as much as there. He didn’t communicate to the visual character design art team any necessity for Li’l Cheese to be a boy, they either knew it was up for interpretation, or were told “do what you want from the script” and got info from the script department that gender wasn’t important. So they shrugged and made Li’l Cheese likened to a girl. Big Jim probably noticed and just allowed it.