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NextImg:Netflix's R-rated ‘Fixed’ has dogs boning, urine jokes, and surprisingly empathetic intersex representation

The absolute last thing I was expecting from Fixed—Netflix’s new raunchy animated film about a dog who can’t stop humping everything in sight—was an empathetic and sensitive portrayal of an intersex person (or, in this case, an intersex canine). And yet, Genndy Tartakovsky’s R-rated cartoon delivered—alongside quite a few graphic depictions of dog sex and urination plot device—perhaps the best intersex representation I’ve ever seen in a mainstream Hollywood film. (Or, at least, the best since last year’s Conclave.)

Directed by Tartakovksy—a renowned animator known for creating Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Star Wars: Clone Wars, Sym-Bionic Titan, and Primal—who also co-wrote the script with Jon Vitti, Fixed tells the story of Bull (voice by Adam DeVine), a young, horny bulldog who is horrified to learn his owners plan to have him neutered. Bull’s friends take him out for one last crazy night with his balls, and that’s how we meet the Dobermann who goes by Frankie.

Voiced by intersex actor River Gallo, Frankie greets Bull and his friends at the door of a dog sex club (really), with a sultry smile and an eyelash flutter. “Welcome, bitches. Are you ready to go wild?”

Photo: Netflix

Bull’s friend Lucky—a nervous, dim-witted beagle voiced by Saturday Night Live alum Bobby Moynihan—is immediately taken with Frankie. Lucky stammers that he’s never met another dog like Frankie, and Frankie proudly informs Lucky they are “one of a kind.” Later, when the two dogs are hooking up (this is a dog sex club, after all), Lucky finds out what Frankie means by that.

“You’ve got a peapod and a zucchini?” Lucky exclaims.

“Yummy, isn’t it?” Frankie replies.

If you can get past the fact that this is a sex scene featuring animated dogs giving each other oral (a big ask, I know), you might see the rare message of self-love conveyed in this sequence. Frankie shows no hint of shame or self-consciousness when they reveal they possess both sex organs—aka, intersex, aka people born with genitalia that doesn’t necessarily align with the gender binary. Yet a line of dialogue from earlier in the film suggests they weren’t always so confident.

“I know this feeling well,” Frankie tells Lucky, after he confesses he’s never satisfied in life. “You struggle to accept yourself, to love yourself.”

Clearly, the journey of self-love hasn’t always been easy for Frankie. But they got there.

“Sweetheart, that is my specialness,” Frankie boasts, proud, when Lucky first sees what they’re packing. “My everything. Myself, which is very deserving of love.”

Fixed voice cast, River Gallo as the voice of Frankie
Photo: Netflix, Getty Images

Yes, the scene is ridiculous—I cannot emphasize enough that this is a movie about dogs having sex—but Frankie is very much in on the joke. Never once does it feel like the film is laughing at intersex people. (Or intersex dogs.)

It helps that Tartakovsky cast Gallo, an intersex activist (as well as an actor and filmmaker, known for their 2024 movie Ponyboi with Dylan O’Brien), as Frankie. In fact, Tartakovsky has said that Gallo helped shape the character of Frankie to make the portrayal more sincere and empathetic.

“Everyone was holding their breath, asking if I was sure I wanted to include [Frankie],” Tartakovsky told IndieWire in a recent interview. “I thought, why not? It’s funny, and we’re not making fun of it. We want to be sincere about it and not mean. Hiring a voice actor who is part of that community added a lot to it. Sometimes I’d do something, and they’d explain why it could be misinterpreted because I don’t have that perspective, so they’d explain it to me, and then I’d change it up. We worked our way through the whole movie like that.”

While I don’t think we need to get too deep about what a supporting character in a raunchy cartoon means for intersex representation in media, there is something quietly radical about this casual, empathetic depiction of a group of people who are usually either entirely ignored by Hollywood, or made the butt of a joke. If anything, Fixed proves that if this raunchy cartoon can do it, anyone can. Here’s to hoping Frankie inspires many more intersex characters down the line. Maybe even ones that don’t suck dog dick.