Called
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It's a Zig-Zagging Trope where Hare is concerned- There's no Viewer Gender Confusion in this case in homeland Russia, because the hare in question is called/named just the Hare, and the Russian word for "hare" ("Zayats") is masculine by default, implying that the Hare is indeed a boy.
Source: Tertiary Sexual Characteristics - There is a girl named Jem who leads a band called "The Holograms" (who are only given that name at the end of the movie), there's a character named Synergy who's a Robot Buddy instead of a supercomputer, the Misfits appear in The Stinger, and that's about it.
Source: In Name Only / Live-Action Films - More understandably, they called Geoffrey Rush's character John Somers instead of John Knox (his wife was named Valerie Somers), and more inexplicably, they called Peter Phelps' character Alex instead of Patrick, even though there's no character by that name in the film.
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