Dorayaki
King Bowser
Sometime ago I notice a comment say in Mario spinoffs, all the girls are on the hero side, that makes me wonder.... wait, can't a normal goomba be a girl?
Yes, in specific cases, some characters have extra gender traits so we can tell they're girls or boys. In mainline we have Koopalings who have obvious gender traits, and in other games, we've seen characters like Goombario and Kooper.
I think both the mainline and the party spinoffs rarely try to specifically hint on the gender of Bowser' minions, so I tend to assume they're genderless (could be either gender). But oldschool cartoon logic seems to believe that girls need makeup and ribbons to tell they're girls, while the plain ones must be dudes.
Also, it feels like most of the cartoon adaption (including the movie from last year) tend to give musculine voices to the primary soldiers.
So I'm curious what's everyone's thought. Do you usually assume a random minion to be an open gender, or they're all boys by default except for specific characters?