Noxid said:
Also Chaco the drag queen? *shudder*
That would be
hilarious.
And would secretly push my "Santa is homosexual" agenda.
anyway, it looks like on the plain-and-simple when comparing the sprites male Mimiga tend to have thick eyebrows, and/or whiskers, and that's really the only obvious way to tell them apart from girls. Of course, the exception is Kanpachi, who, and hopefully I don't incur the wrath of the "kanpachi is the manliest man in manville" crowd with this, is just an adorable little laid back kind of guy, not the big ruff N tuff "let's grow out our eyebrows as if they were our equivalent to a beard" kind of mimiga. And the shovel brigade and prisoners are the same. But I think they're mostly just young people, like, at least younger than any other named Mimiga other than Toroko, Sue and Chie, and are as such quite ambiguous.
In fact, the prisoners at the King's Table, that blush upon Chaco's mentioning of Arthur's name, may very well be all female due to that fact. I always imagined them as being all male since they all have that "basic" look that reminds one of Kanpachi but in all likelihood Pixel intended them to be a mix of male and female since he seems to have put a lot of thought into this little race he made up and I don't think he'd want to admit that Chaco and Chie are the only females left out of the ENTIRE species by the end of Cave Story, but didn't feel inclined or motivated enough to make two separate "general Mimiga" sprites.