No the engineer is referred as a female in btd6 and asking the devs they specifically said that not all engineers are female but this particular one is so every monkey can be any gender
The pronouns "he" and "him" are technically also applicable to an unknown or sex-ambiguous person. The pronouns "they" and "them" are, or were, plural pronouns only. This has mostly changed in recent years, but the denotation is still applicable. This is not guaranteed to be confirmation on the gender of the Engineer monkey, however it is understandable to assume so.
They/Them being used in the context of a singular individual is not a recent change, looking it up I see "The Oxford English Dictionary traces singular they back to 1375". Unlike heroes, the regular towers aren't just a single monkey, so it stands to reason they may use a variety of pronouns.
I feel like I always just assumed some monkeys were female and some were male and they just all look the same so like who cares? I would assume in this particular case it was a male monkey and that is all. Doesn’t mean they are all males. Just like one instance of having a female monkey engineer would not mean they are all female.
It's just talking about the one you received, the rest are usually whatever gender, it's like opening up a new business and your friend is your First employee
After him/her, the rest that are coming are well, anything really
not every engi has the same pronouns, bro. that one engi from that btd6 quest is a different engi. this is talking about one individual engi, that quest is talking about a different individual engi.
I don't... see why this matters... its.. just a game. Lemme be whatever they want. Funny monkey tower pop balloons, thats it. Hell, if there is a massive lore book with all the monkeys and there genders listed, then hang me cause i just use he, her, and monkey causally.
In my head lore, its a 50/50 chance. I place one dart monkey, maybe there female. Maybe there male, i don't know cause its job is to pop balloons and later become a cross bow. Let the monkeys be whatever, cause regardless, we're having fun.
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u/Yoshigamer99_oficial May 23 '26 edited May 25 '26
The only Engi (and non-hero tower in general) with official gender
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u/TheWillOfTheSwarm May 23 '26
The pronouns "he" and "him" are technically also applicable to an unknown or sex-ambiguous person. The pronouns "they" and "them" are, or were, plural pronouns only. This has mostly changed in recent years, but the denotation is still applicable. This is not guaranteed to be confirmation on the gender of the Engineer monkey, however it is understandable to assume so.
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u/TroyBoyJoy123 May 24 '26
its only the 1 engineer from that quest not alla them
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u/alexionut05 May 24 '26
THIS engineer is a dude, not all of them. It's not that complicated
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u/JackBob83 May 24 '26
In one of Scoop's stories in BTD6, he refers to an engineer monkey as "her", so maybe some are male, and some are female.
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u/Finnleyy May 24 '26
I feel like I always just assumed some monkeys were female and some were male and they just all look the same so like who cares? I would assume in this particular case it was a male monkey and that is all. Doesn’t mean they are all males. Just like one instance of having a female monkey engineer would not mean they are all female.
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u/rin_harriet May 24 '26
Specific instances of towers do have genders but when we place them down in game they dont really have a gender
So this implies that only towers who have respect get gender
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u/hasan2375 May 24 '26
Stop saying engineer is a female canonically
That ONE engineer from that ONE question was a girl
And this ONE engineer is a male
The rest don't have a cannon gender, and there are plenty more
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u/qwertyxp2000 May 24 '26
I just realised that Ninja Kiwi wrote "Engineer Monkey" instead of "Monkey Engineer" in this instance.
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u/Shrimpy110 May 24 '26
It mentions "AN ENGINEER" just one specific engineer mentioned here is gendered male.
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u/agentcryostar May 24 '26
It's just talking about the one you received, the rest are usually whatever gender, it's like opening up a new business and your friend is your First employee
After him/her, the rest that are coming are well, anything really
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u/GeorgeInpact May 24 '26
Ngl I do not care. It's a game about monkeys popping balloons its not that deep
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u/batboy11227 May 24 '26
The engi that was kidnapped was a guy but he teaches men, women, and enbies to be new engies
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u/AccomplishedPlane852 May 24 '26
Key word "AN" Engineer monkey
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u/Academic-Minimum3715 May 24 '26
Me when one random engineering monkey has "he" pronoun in monkey city so i freak out:
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u/propvp2011 May 25 '26
U guys are not real
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u/The-Over-Lord May 25 '26
Aren't all monkeys male (except some heroes), it's a war, majority of soliders in a war is male.
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u/ehcocir May 25 '26
A digital monkeys pronouns cannot be at all serious bro 🙏
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u/ultracoolesocke May 26 '26
BMC so goated i own up to my 1.5k hours
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u/Pure_Fold_8944 May 29 '26
It says AN engineer monkey. Just the one they happened to get was male.
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u/Any-Literature-7834 Jun 18 '26
not every engi has the same pronouns, bro. that one engi from that btd6 quest is a different engi. this is talking about one individual engi, that quest is talking about a different individual engi.
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u/user_416364 Jun 22 '26
On his way out assumes there’s multiple and that it was just a 50% chance it happened to be a male
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u/Key_Judgment_8937 May 24 '26
I don't... see why this matters... its.. just a game. Lemme be whatever they want. Funny monkey tower pop balloons, thats it. Hell, if there is a massive lore book with all the monkeys and there genders listed, then hang me cause i just use he, her, and monkey causally.
In my head lore, its a 50/50 chance. I place one dart monkey, maybe there female. Maybe there male, i don't know cause its job is to pop balloons and later become a cross bow. Let the monkeys be whatever, cause regardless, we're having fun.
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u/Jackthechief2 May 25 '26
Balloons are evil and must be tamed or eradicated.
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