A few female cards have names that use masculine word forms, even where a feminine form is widely-known and used ("Fire Sorcerer", which uses "Sorcerer" instead of "Sorceress").
Female cards, as a group, have occasionally had a role of some significance in the anime, manga and video games:
In the manga and anime, "Shadow of Eyes" allowed a female monster to use pheromones to tempt male monsters into Attack Position.
In the TCG, the femininity of monsters frequently affects gameplay in languages that have grammatical gender, in other words, all languages other than English. Grammatical gender (along with grammatical number and other types of grammatical inflections) has resulted in different naming schemes for these languages, for example, by adding "additional" archetypes or adding notes for femininity (for example, "Mágico(a)" in Portuguese or "Mágico/a" in Spanish) to archetype names, all to minimize ambiguity in terms of archetype membership for female monsters. Unlike in other languages, in Italian, archetype membership for female monsters and cards with grammatical number has been implicit, and archetype names have usually been simply masculine by default.
