What gender is the black mage??

[Agent Proto]

Ok, after looking at some sprites, I am now confused about the true gender of the black mage in Final Fantasy I. Now, to prove my point, I'll provide some images.

First, I'll provide the image of the Black Mage from FFI



Now let's look at the Black Mages from... FFV

Bartz


Reina


Galuf


Faris


Krile


Now, after looking around, I have decided that the gender of the black mage is female. Look at the male characters in FFV. As a Black Mage, each male character was shown wearing pants, and the female characters with just the robe. The black mage in FFI has no pants, and thus is female.

But what do I know? The black mage is probably male after all, but that may be wrong. What do you think? Male or female?

I bet all of you are going to say male. 8-)

[Xalioniaf]

If it is a female, then it must undergo a sex change after the upgrade. In either one(DoS or NES), it portrays him as a male. NES has him with his hat off, showing a masculan face, and DoS, shows him with pants, and males have pants like you sayz.

[Chris]

Let's compromise and say its a Shemale

[Monol]

Well i admire your excellent theory even though im saying black mage is a guy....i mean have you ever seen the black wizard?

[Full Moon Coyote]

YOU ALL ARE WRONG!

Its plain and simple, the Black Mages are ewoks

[DocFrance]

I'd say the Black Mages are an asexual species of their own, like in FFIX.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

They couldn't show Lenna, Faris, and Klulu wearing pants as Black Mages, because it's backwards and wrong for women to do such things. Therefore, instead of giving them some weird Black Mage skirt, they simply went back to the old way of just giving them a big robe. It hardly means the robe-wearing Black Mages in any other game are female, though, especially since all the heroes in FFIII are stated as being boys and in FFI the Black Mage goes from no-pants to pants.

[strawberryman]

I say that they're just the reincarnation of evil, and therefore need no gender.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

A reincarnation of evil can't be a Warrior of Light.

[strawberryman]

A reincarnation of evil can't be a Warrior of Light.

Maybe he was bribed.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

Even if he wanted to, he wouldn't be allowed.

[DocFrance]

They're the Warriors of Light, not the Warriors of Good. Not necessarily the same thing.

[Dignified Pauper]

you didn't put an image of FFIII's bm

[Sefie1999AD]

The Black Mage could be either gender, really. I always thought BM was male and WM was female, though maybe that has something to do with how the 8-Bit Theater shows the two. However, if you press Auto-Select on the names in FF1 DoS, the game can come up with both male and female names for the Black Mage. As for other classes, I think White Mage had mostly female names, Thief and Red Mage had at least one female name (Daryl and Lola), and neither Warrior nor Monk had any female names.

[DarkLadyNyara]

Yeah, I think it's open to interpretation.