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** The namesakes of Omashu were a man and a woman in the original, while in the adaptation, they were both women.
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** The namesakes of Omashu were a man and a woman in the original, while in the adaptation, they were both women.
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* In the American version of ''Series/{{Skins}}'', most characters are transplanted from the British series except for the openly gay Maxxie. Maxxie becomes the lesbian Tea. The fact that they followed the same storyline with the character sleeping with Tony has several UnfortunateImplications.
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* ''Series/TwelveMonkeys'', an adaptation of the [[Film/TwelveMonkeys 1995 movie]], has Jeffrey Goines turn into ''Jennifer'' Goines.
* In ''Series/TheAdventuresOfShirleyHolmes'', Sherlock's descendant and {{Expy}} is his great-grandniece. And her archenemy is [[PunnyName Molly Hardy]].
* In ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', the African-American PosthumousCharacter Paula Holt becomes a white guy called Paul. [[AdaptationalSexuality Still married to Mr Terrific, though.]]
* In the second series of ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'', Creator/HonorBlackman (as Dr. Cathy Gale) replaced Creator/IanHendry (Dr. David Keel) as John Steed's partner. In her earliest appearances (scripts written much earlier for Hendry), her dialogue was left completely unchanged. This is sometimes credited with making Cathy Gale a particularly memorable female character for the early '60s.
* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'':
** Starbuck and Boomer are Gender Flipped (and {{Race Lift}}ed) from [[Series/BattlestarGalactica1978 the original]]. As often happens with actors who find themselves replaced, Creator/DirkBenedict was less than happy about it, referring to his heir as "Stardoe" (har har). Creator/KevinSmith joked about this when he hosted a ''Battlestar Galactica'' panel at Comic Con.
--->'''Smith:''' ''[to Ron Moore and David Eick]'' I'm glad you guys changed Starbuck into a woman. Otherwise it would have made all those kissing scenes with Lee really awkward.
** Lloyd Bridges' Commander Cain was also revived as Michelle Forbes' (now Admiral) Helena Cain. But they're both equally crazy.
* Jonathan Cartwright/Mouse in ''Series/Batwoman2019'' is a GenderFlip of Batman villain Jane Doe, who likewise impersonates people with flayed-skin masks, and was named as Jane Cartwright in ''Series/{{Gotham}}''.
* The production of ''Theatre/SwanLake'' put on in ''Series/TheBigLeap'' uses genderblind casting. This coupled with several cast changes causes several roles to have this. Simon is Odile the Black Swan, Brittney is briefly Prince Siegfried, Aja is Von Rothbart by the final production, and the show makes a big deal out of casting two women as the Siegfried's parents (with a sound cue that bellows "'''two mommies'''" whenever it's brought up).
* ''Series/TheBionicWoman'' is a gender flipped reimagining of ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'', at least one episode of which was plot and dialogue identical. At the end, the titular hero has to provide an impromptu explanation of how his or her finger came to be cut. The explanation given in both cases was "I [[CutHimselfShaving cut myself shaving]]".
* In ''Series/BlackLightning2018'', Erica Moran is a gender-flipped version of Freight Train from ''ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders'', real name Eric Moran.
* Servalan in ''Series/BlakesSeven'' was originally a man and was originally supposed to appear once. Once Jacqueline Pearce entered the picture, that all changed.
* ''Series/TheBoys2019'': Madelyn [[note]]James[[/note]] Stillwell and Grace [[note]]Greg[[/note]] Mallory. Season 2 has Stormfront played by a woman while "Vic the Veep" Neumann is reimagined into Victoria Neumann.
* ''Series/BraveNewWorld'': Mustapha Mond, the male World Controller in the book, is now female.
* In the Japanese mini-series ''[[Manga/BloodOnTheTracks Chi no Wadachi]]'', the investigator character is played by Creator/TaoOkamoto. The character was a man in the original novel.
* In the ''Series/DeathNote'' live-action drama, Near, who is a boy in the manga, was played by a teenage girl and deliberately had their gender [[AmbiguousGender left ambiguous]].
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E5TheWebPlanet The Web Planet]]", the character Vrestin, leader of the Menoptera war party, was written as male (like all the other Menoptera). However, when casting the character, the cast and crew were impressed with the choreographer hired to create the 'insect movement' and cast her as Vrestin without changing anything in the script besides pronouns, resulting in one of the most powerful ActionGirl supporting characters in 60s ''Who''. Vrestin is male in the Target novelisation of the story (''Doctor Who and the Zarbi''), which is based on the original script.
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E1Galaxy4 Galaxy 4]]", the Drahvins were originally all male, until producer Verity Lambert suggested making them all-female.
** Gia Kelly in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E5TheSeedsOfDeath The Seeds of Death]]" was originally a man.
** Morgan in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E4ColonyInSpace Colony in Space]]" was originally a woman, with Susan James cast in the role. However, she was replaced by Tony Caunter when the BBC's Head of Drama Serials made an unusual intervention and decided the role was inappropriate for a woman to perform. James was nevertheless paid in full.
** The human president in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E3FrontierInSpace Frontier in Space]]" was originally a man.
** Bettan in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks Genesis of the Daleks]]" was originally a man. Aside from Sarah Jane Smith, she's the only female character in the story.
** Marn in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E4TheSunMakers The Sun Makers]]" was originally a man.
** Dr. Solow and Preston in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E1WarriorsOfTheDeep Warriors of the Deep]]" were originally men, until director Pennant Roberts made them female. Roberts usually gender-flipped at least one role in every story he directed.
** Averted in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E7TheTwinDilemma The Twin Dilemma]]", as Creator/JohnNathanTurner was encouraged to cast two more experienced female actresses in the roles of the CreepyTwins, but chose male actors because he believed it was crucial the characters be boys for the script to work. He [[RuleOfSymbolism may have had a point about this]] (the twins can be read as a PlotParallel for the Doctor's fragmented personality following his regeneration).
** The stage play adaptation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E5TheRobotsOfDeath The Robots of Death]]" turns Uvanov, Borg, Cass and Dask into women. One would think that this was being done to obscure which character is secretly the pro-robotist terrorist Taren Capel, but the main characters refer to Taren as 'she' from the beginning. Another side effect of this is that it means the only surviving male character of the story is Poul (who exists as a gibbering vegetable).
** Pope Benedict IX is portrayed as a woman in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E6Extremis Extremis]]". Considering the scandalous nature of his reign, this was probably much safer than portraying him accurately. It also doubles as a ShoutOut to the legend of Pope Joan. However, [[spoiler:it's later revealed that nearly the entirety of the episode was part of a simulation.]]
* ''Series/DoomPatrol2019''
** Cyborg's childhood friend Ron Evers is now his love interest ''Roni'' Evers.
** The Brotherhood of Dada is now the Sisterhood of Dada, although in fact, only two members are examples: the Fog (whose real name is changed from Byron Shelley to Shelley Byron) and the Quiz (whose real name was never revealed in the comics). Sleepwalk was already a woman and Frenzy remains male, as is [[CanonForeigner new member]] Malcolm.
* In ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', Van Helsing is a man. In ''Series/Dracula2020'', there are [[DecompositeCharacter two]] Van Helsings, both female.
* In another Franchise/SherlockHolmes adaptation, ''Series/{{Elementary}}'', John Watson has been changed to Joan Watson and is played by Creator/LucyLiu. As Liu is Chinese American, this is a RaceLift [[TwoferTokenMinority as well]]. Also, [[spoiler: Moriarty]] is now a [[spoiler: woman]] and is combined with [[spoiler:Irene]].
* One of the episodes of the new ''Series/FantasyIsland'' featured a terminally ill woman who wanted to experience life as a soldier in a combat zone. Instead of being placed with a company of male soldiers like she expected, she was placed in a gender-reversed version of TheSquad, which was filled with the requisite roughneck personality types, only with women playing the roles.
* ''Series/TheFlash2014'':
** A crossover event between that show and ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' introduced a Gender Flip of ComicBook/TheAtom's enemy, the Bug-Eyed Bandit, with "Bertram Larvan" becoming "Brie Larvan" (portrayed by Creator/EmilyKinney).
** Season 3 introduces the Top as a young woman, with the character's name changed from "Roscoe Dillon" to "Rosalind 'Rosa' Dillon" (portrayed by Ashley Rickards).
** Season 4's "Luck Be A Lady", introduces Becky "Hazard" Sharp, who is female in both the series and the comics ... except the details of how her WindsOfDestinyChange powers work are altered slightly to essentially make her a gender flip of Amos Fortune, specifically the way he's presented in ''[[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational Justice League Europe]]''.
** Season 4 also introduces the show's version of Black Bison, who is a woman named Mina Chayton instead of a man named John Ravenhair.
** Also in Season 4 is a version of Fiddler, who instead of an elderly man named Isaac Bowen is a younger woman named Izzy Bowen.
** And obscure ''ComicBook/{{Hawkman}}'' character Null, who's a woman named Janet Petty instead of a man named, well, Null, as far as we know.
** Joss Jackam, the Weather Witch, is very loosely based on Weather Wizard's son in the comics, Josh Jackam.
** Season 5 introduces Spin, who is changed from a man known only as Mr. Auerbach to a woman named Spencer Young.
** Evan [=McCulloch=], a.k.a Mirror Master II, is adapted as Eva [=McCulloch=].
** The Red Death is an alternate universe version of [[Comicbook/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]] in the comics, but in the series, Red Death is instead [[spoiler:an alternate incarnation of Ryan Wilder, the second Series/{{Batwoman|2019}}]].
* In the TV movie that inspired ''Series/ForeverKnight'', the medical examiner and SecretKeeper who'd met Nick when he woke up in the morgue had been male.
* ''Series/FullerHouse'' flips the genders of its antecedent series. In the original, Danny Tanner (a man) raised three girls with help from his two pals (also men), in the new show, DJ Tanner (a woman) raises three boys with help from her two pals (women).
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** For an unknown reason, the Dornish practise of open succession (i.e a firstborn girl inherits before her younger brother) was erased. This leads to some notable Dornish ladies who rule in their own right being changed into men. In particular, Oberyn refers to his father as being Prince of Dorne before him, when in actual fact his mother was the reigning Princess. And in the books, the head of the delegation Tyrion meets outside King's Landing is a woman. An HBO press release named Prince Trystane rather than [[AdaptedOut Princess Arianne]] as the heir to Prince Doran Martell.
** Bronn's betrothed Lollys is said to be a daughter of ''Lord'' Stokeworth rather than the elderly Lady Tanda Stokeworth of the novels.
** House Cerwyn was actually headed by a ''woman'' at the point in the novels where they are introduced in the show, Jonelle Cerwyn, after the Boltons killed her father and brother. The TV version omitted Jonelle and kept her brother alive — actually part of a pattern of gender-swapping minor background vassals from female to male.
* ''Series/TheGoldbergs'' depicts producer Adam Goldberg's life in TheEighties, but with one major difference: in real life, he has two brothers, Barry and Eric. On the show, he has a brother Barry and a sister Erica.
** This particular example gets an InUniverse inversion in "8-Bit Goldbergs". In Adam's computer game based on his family, Erica is replaced by a man named Eric and her boyfriend Geoff Schwartz becomes Eric's girlfriend Geoffina.
* ''Series/GoodOmens2019'': Pollution is nonbinary, referred to in the narration as "they", and played by a woman. Beelzebub is a woman as well, as are the Archangels Michael and Uriel, and most notably God Herself (but she's just a voice).
* ''Series/{{Gotham}}'' changes Firefly from a white male named Garfield Lynns to a young Latina woman named Bridget Pike (played by Michelle Veintimilla).
* A zig-zagged example takes place in Series/HallmarkHallOfFame's 2005 miniseries ''Hercules''. In this adaptation, the Nemean Lion is a male animal, but it can turn into a beautiful woman in order to seduce their enemies into letting their guard down. Then again, the miniseries fuses this character with the Theban Sphynx, so the monster is probably female after all, only that its true form looks like a male lion.
* ''Literature/RedDragon'''s male reporter Freddie Lounds becomes the female reporter Fredricka Lounds in the TV adaptation ''Series/{{Hannibal}}''. In the same show, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Alan Bloom becomes Alana Bloom and is given some angsty {{UST}} with Will Graham.
* ''Series/TheHardyBoys2020'': Biff Hooper, a teenage boy in [[Literature/TheHardyBoys the novels]], is made into a teenage girl in the Creator/{{Hulu}} series.
* ''Series/HawaiiFive0'' makes Kono a woman (renamed Kona, but still nicknamed "Kono"). She's played by Grace Park, who was previously best known as the gender-flipped Boomer in ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003''.
* ''It Happened One Christmas'' (1977) is a TV-Movie Gender Flip of ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'' starring Marlo Thomas. Played completely straight.
* ''Literature/HighFidelity'': Rob, originally a man in the book, film and musical is made a woman for the series.
* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Antoinette Brown (a woman) is based on Antoine (a man) from ''Literature/TheVampireChronicles'', a musician (although she's more precisely a singer) who becomes Lestat de Lioncourt's lover and is later turned into a vampire.
* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' spoofs the trope in "The Gang Beats Boggs: Ladies' Reboot", where Dee leads a delegation of the show's female characters in rehashing the concept of a previous EpisodeOnAPlane. Artemis keeps complaining that the idea is lazy and suggesting that they do something new instead.
* ''The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story'' gender-bends Bagheera - and Bagheera alone - so that s/he's a female for the duration of a movie. This is probably so that Mowgli can have a mother-figure without adding in Mother Wolf, the she-wolf from the book, but it can be a little odd for a kid only familiar with the Disney version.
** It's not the first time that Bagheera was a female. The Soviet series ''Animation/AdventuresOfMowgli'' did the same. Due to how Bagheera has a feminine pronunciation in Russian.
* Mrs. Lee from ''Series/KimsConvenience'' was a man named ''Mr.'' Lee in the original play.
* In ''Series/{{Krypton}}'', the terrorist Jax-Ur is an attractive woman in her 40s instead of an old man.
* ''Series/LegendOfTheSeeker'': In the books, everyone refers to the Creator as "he". Here, it's the opposite, and her ([[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane apparent]]) human avatar is a woman.
* ''Series/LetTheRightOneIn'': Eli in the novel is a castrated boy. Eleanor is a girl.
* ''Series/LockwoodAndCo2023'': Pamela Joplin was Albert Joplin in [[Literature/LockwoodAndCo the book series]], while Fairfax's assistant Ellie was a big hulking male thug named Grebe.
* In ''Series/LostInSpace2018'', Dr. Zachary Smith is now a woman played by Creator/ParkerPosey. [[spoiler:In a subversion, it actually turns out that "Dr. Smith" is a con woman who stole the identity of this continuity's Zachary Smith.]]
* ''Series/LovecraftCountry'' has a few examples, such as George and Hippolyta's son Horace becoming their daughter Dee, and Caleb Braithwaite becoming Christina Braithwaite.
* ''Series/Lucifer2016'':
** The angel Remiel is a white man in [[ComicBook/{{Lucifer}} the comics]], but is depicted as an Asian woman in the show.
** Gabriel is also changed from a white male to an AmbiguouslyBrown woman.
* In ''Series/MacGyver1985'', the title character took his orders from Pete Thornton. In the [[Series/MacGyver2016 reboot]], this role is filled by ''Patricia'' Thornton [[spoiler: until she's discovered to be a mole for the enemy, arrested, and replaced by Matty Webber.]]
* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
** In ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'', the Flag-Smasher is a woman named Karli Morgenthau rather than a man named Karl Morgenthau.
** In ''Series/Hawkeye2021'', Detective Rivera is a man, rather than a woman.
** Jeryn Hogarth, a male lawyer in the comics, is played by Creator/CarrieAnneMoss in ''Series/JessicaJones2015'', with the character becoming "Jeri Hogarth" instead. [[AdaptationalSexuality Still attracted to women, though.]]
** Zigzagged with ''Series/MoonKnight2022''. While Layla El-Faouly is loosely based on Marc Spector's wife, Marlene, she also becomes a female version of [[spoiler: The Scarlet Scarab]]. Her last name "Faouly" is a reference to the Abdul & Mehemet Faoul, who used the alias in the comics.
* The Japanese series ''Series/MissSherlock'' is an update of Sherlock Holmes set in modern day Tokyo. Sherlock becomes Sara "Sherlock" Futaba, while Watson becomes Wato Tachibana.
* ''Series/Missing2012'' (female secret agent searches for her kidnapped son) seems to be a gender-flipped TV version of ''Film/{{Taken}}'' (male ex-secret agent searches for his kidnapped daughter).
* In-universe example: In the ''Series/{{Monk}}'' episode "Mr. Monk and the Actor", there's a movie adaptation being made of the Steve Wagner case (in "Mr. Monk and the Astronaut"). In this movie, Monk is played by method actor David Ruskin (Creator/StanleyTucci), Natalie is played by a blonde actress, and Captain Stottlemeyer is a cameo appearance by Creator/PeterWeller. As for Randy Disher, he was wholly expecting Creator/BradPitt to be portraying him in the movie. Instead, Randy is replaced with a gorgeous brunette actress who becomes a love interest for Captain Stottlemeyer. The real Stottlemeyer and Disher don't know this when they show up on the set to watch a rehearsal, leading to a ''very'' awkward moment when the actors lean in for a kiss.
-->'''Captain Leland Stottlemeyer:''' That ''never happened''.\\
'''Lt. Randall Disher:''' Not even once.
* ''Series/{{Monkey}}'', an adaptation of ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'', changed the gender of certain characters: Tripitaka is now a woman, Buddha is a goddess and Guanyin a god.
* Creator/TheBBC's 2012 SettingUpdate of ''Literature/NicholasNickleby'' has Nick working at a BleakAbyssRetirementHome called Dotheolds Hall, in place of the BoardingSchoolOfHorrors Dotheboys Hall. Smike, the "simple" boy Nicholas befriends and rescues from the place, becomes a senile old lady named Mrs. Smike.
* In ''Literature/TheNightmareRoom'' episode "My Name Is Evil", the protagonist is male when she was female in the original story. The protagonist's peers were similarly gender flipped.
* ''Series/OnceUponATime'' changes Jack the Giant Killer to ''Jacqueline'' the Giant Killer.
* In ''Series/OnePiece2023'', Sham, one of Kuro's minions, in a woman, while her [[Manga/OnePiece manga]] counterpart is a man.
* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'': In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S2E9IRobot I, Robot]]", Dr. Charles Link's closest living relative is his niece Nina. In the 1939 short story "[[Literature/AdamLink The Trial of Adam Link, Robot]]" by Eando Binder on which it is based, his closest relative is his nephew Tom.
* ''Series/PartOfMe'': In both ''El cuerpo del deseo'' and ''En cuerpo ajeno'', it was an older man who [[SharingABody inhabited the body of a younger man]]; here, it's an older woman inhabiting the body of a younger woman.
* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'': The fullest effects of this trope are best seen in the seasons that are actual adaptations of the source shows including character portrayals, though for some instances, this trope applies only in combat when the Ranger adaptation would only use fight footage rather than adapting episode plots.
** When ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'' was "[[ForeignRemake remade]]" into ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', the male Tiger Ranger became the female Yellow Ranger in order to have [[TwoGirlsToATeam two female Rangers]] instead of [[SmurfettePrinciple just one]]. This practice started a trend for Yellow Rangers when four later ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' shows were adapted into ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' seasons: the male Yellow Rangers from ''[[Series/SeijuuSentaiGingaman Gingaman]]'', ''[[Series/RescueSentaiGoGoFive Gogo-V]]'', ''[[Series/MiraiSentaiTimeranger Timeranger]]'' and ''[[Series/HyakujuuSentaiGaoranger Gaoranger]]'' were turned into females in their corresponding adaptations (''[[Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy Lost Galaxy]]'', ''[[Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue Lightspeed Rescue]]'', ''[[Series/PowerRangersTimeForce Time Force]]'', and ''[[Series/PowerRangersWildForce Wild Force]]''). This practice would cause inconsistencies between the imported Japanese footage and the locally-filmed new footage, in which the Yellow Ranger would switch from having a masculine figure in one scene to having a feminine one in the next.
** Tsuruhime, the ''Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger'' White Ranger, underwent heavy DecompositeCharacter treatment. Of the three characters to take on her roles, two (Alien Ranger Delphine and MMPR Katherine) were still women, while her role as team leader and one of her Zords went to the male Tommy Oliver.
** Katie from ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'' was made similar to Domon from ''Timeranger'', although many of the latter's traits were given to Lucas and Trip. From what was left, Domon's nostalgia for sumo wrestling competitions got adapted as Katie missing her family, a much more emotional and feminine intake on the feeling; similarly, the subplot with Domon's relationship with a female photographer who discovered his identity was changed to a one-off deal between Katie and a male photographer who unmasked her that didn't go anywhere, due to males pursuing relationships being less common (and to make room for focus on the [[SpotlightStealingSquad Rangers who wore any]] [[LawOfChromaticSuperiority shade of red]]).
** Taylor from ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'', on the other hand, was almost identical to Gaku from ''Gaoranger'' in terms of background and plot, the only major differences being personality (Taylor was a bold DefrostingIceQueen, Gaku was friendly from the very beginning and somewhat quirky) and rank (Taylor was a lieutenant, whereas Gaku was a soldier). As a female {{Lancer}} was proven successful the previous season, Taylor got a better end of the stick than her yellow predecessor, who was TheBigGuy and therefore more expendable.
* ''Series/QueenOfSwords'' was pretty much a straight Gender Flip of {{Franchise/Zorro}}, to the point that Sony sued over its resemblance to the character and its 1998 ''Film/TheMaskOfZorro'' film.[[note]]The judge ruled against Sony, holding that both the original Zorro story and its first (1920) film adaptation were now in the public domain, and any similarities to the 1998 film were incidental.[[/note]]
* The crew of the ''Series/RedDwarf'' ''meet'' the Gender Flipped versions of themselves in a parallel universe. Although, not all of them were flipped. The Cat, the ultimate narcissist, is looking forward to meeting the feminine version of himself for... obvious reasons. However, his opposite number is a male Dog with zero dress sense.
** Eventually, when Creator/NormanLovett, who played Holly, left, they just hired Creator/HattieHayridge, who played his Gender Flip Hilly and said that Holly got a sex change to look like Hilly.
** Captain Hollister is a man in the TV series, and a woman in the tie-in novels.
** In the second pilot for the US version, the Cat was played by Terry Farrell (who would go on to be Jadzia in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'') as a "feline warrior woman". (The original pilot had Hinton Battle playing the role much as Danny John-Jules did.) In the end, the American remake never aired anyway.
* ''Series/Revenge2011'', a modern-day reimagining of ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'', gender-flips the protagonist Edmond Dantes to be Emily Thorne. Rather than having been framed herself like Edmond, Emily is the daughter of a man who was framed and falsely imprisoned.
* In the anthology series ''Series/TheRivalsOfSherlockHolmes'', one episode adapts Robert Barr's "The Absent-Minded Coterie". The clever Mr. Macpherson becomes the equally clever Miss Mackail.
* Djaq in ''Series/RobinHood'' is a Gender Flip of the Saracen outlaw seen in ''Series/RobinOfSherwood'' (Nassir) and ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'' (Azeem). ... And ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'' (Achoo).
* Lucky in ''Series/TheSchoolNurseFiles'' was a boy in the original novel, but the director changed him into a girl for the series.
* The American remake of the Australian show ''Secrets & Lies'' transforms lead investigator Ian Cornielle into Andrea Cornell.
* Due to being unable to find suitable actresses, the Indian remake of ''Series/ShakeItUp'' rewrote the leads as boys.
* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'':
** Watson's brother, "H. Watson", mentioned in "The Sign of Four", becomes John's ''sister'', Harry (short for Harriet).
** "[[Recap/SherlockS02E02TheHoundsOfBaskerville The Hounds of Baskerville]]": Dr. James Mortimer becomes Dr. Louise Mortimer.
** Laura Lyons becomes a young, male Corporal Lyons.
** Stapleton is a trickier case; there's a Mr. Stapleton and Miss Stapleton in the book, but only one (female) Dr. Stapleton in the programme. The plot's been changed sufficiently that you can't tell which one she's meant to be by her actions.
** The King of Bohemia becomes an unnamed female British royal in "[[Recap/SherlockS02E01AScandalInBelgravia A Scandal in Belgravia]]".
** In John's CharacterBlog, Dr Barnicot from "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons" becomes [[http://www.johnwatsonblog.co.uk/blog/19december Sally Barnicot]].
** In the actual episode "[[Recap/SherlockS04E01TheSixThatchers The Six Thatchers]]", which probably makes the above blog post CanonDiscontinuity, there is a brief reference to one of the busts belonging to a Miss Orrie Harker, counterpart to the original's Horace Harker.
** In the same episode, DI Stella Hopkins is based on Inspector Stanley Hopkins, introduced in "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange".
* In the American version of ''Series/{{Skins}}'', most characters are transplanted from the British series except for the openly gay Maxxie. Maxxie becomes the lesbian Tea. The fact that they followed the same storyline with the character sleeping with Tony has several UnfortunateImplications.
* In ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', Creator/GeneRoddenberry sort of gender flipped the First Officer role, which was originally written as an emotionally distant, supremely rational NumberTwo (named "Number One"). NBC objected, however (not due to the casting of a female so much as the casting of the ''particular'' female, Majel Barrett, who happened to be Roddenberry's mistress at the time.) While different in several ways (most obviously, being an alien), Mr. Spock essentially assumed both her role as First Officer and her [[TheSpock rationality and lack of emotion]].
* ''Series/Supergirl2015'':
** Dr. Emil Hamilton is changed to Dr. Amelia Hamilton.
** N'or Cott was a male Martian in the comics, but is briefly mentioned in "Rebirth" with female pronouns.
* In ''Series/SupermanAndLois'', General Hardcastle from [[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries the 90s cartoon]] is a woman.
* The CBS All Access adaptation of ''Series/TheStand2020'' changed the Rat Man into the Rat Woman.
* When a {{Revival}} of ''Series/TheTimeTunnel'' was attempted in 2002, male scientist Dr. ''Tony'' Newman was changed to female scientist Dr. ''Toni'' Newman.
* ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy2019'': In [[ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy the comics]], Vanya is a cis woman. In the show, ''Viktor'' comes out as a trans man in Season 3 due to Creator/ElliotPage's [[QueerCharacterQueerActor own gender transition]].
* In the books of ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'', Elena had a 4-year-old sister. In the TV show, she has a teenage brother. The boarding house Stefan stayed in was also owned by an elderly woman instead of Stefan's and Damon's "uncle".
* This isn't unique to ''Power Rangers'' either. Priest Poe from ''Series/SpaceSheriffShaider'' was a transvestite, but his ''Series/VRTroopers'' equivalent was a woman named Despera.
* ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010'' does this to a few notable characters from [[ComicBook/TheWalkingDead the comics]]:
** The male Dr. Stevens from the comics subverts this. His name is given to a woman, [[InNameOnly but it turns out]] that he's a DecompositeCharacter, and Dr. Stevens' CharacterDevelopment from the comics is given to Milton Mamet, who is also male.
** Twins Ben and Billy become sisters Lizzie ([[AgeLift older]]) and Mika (younger), respectively. [[DecompositeCharacter Ben does appear beforehand, though]].
** In Season 5, Alexandria Safe-Zone's first couple Douglas and Regina Monroe, respectively, are introduced as Deanna and Reg Monroe.
* ''Series/Warehouse13'' plays with this trope; H.G. Wells is split into two people; the real H.G. Wells is Helena G. Wells, the genius inventor, adventurer, and warehouse agent. The man recognized as Creator/HGWells is her older brother Charles, who chronicled her adventures using her abbreviated name as a pen name.
* The ''Series/WarriorNun'' Creator/{{Netflix}} series changes Julian Salvius to ''Jillian'' Salvius.
* ''Series/WillAndGrace''. Will wanted to stage an all-male rendition of ''Literature/BenHur'' titled "Ben-Him". Grace mentioned her mother appeared as "Millie Loman" in "Death of a Sales Lady". Grace's mother also mentions not even wanting to audition for 'The Ice-Person Cometh'.
* The title character in Creator/{{NBC}}'s live broadcast of ''Theatre/TheWiz'' is played by Music/QueenLatifah:
-->'''Dorothy:''' The Wiz is...\\
'''Cowardly Lion:''' ...a fraud!\\
'''Tinman:''' ...and a woman!\\
'''Dorothy:''' ''And what's wrong with being a woman?''
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'':
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E16TheHitchHiker The Hitch-Hiker]]", the protagonist is a woman named Nan Adams. In ''The Orson Welles Show'' radio play by Lucille Fletcher on which it was based, the protagonist is a man named Ronald Adams. [[CreatorBacklash Fletcher was not pleased by this change]]. Furthermore, in the radio version, Ronald picks up a woman and briefly gives her a lift, but she leaves after he tries to run over the hitch-hiker. In the television version, Nan gives a lift to a male sailor, who leaves for the same reason.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E24ToServeMan To Serve Man]]", a translator named Betty discovers [[ToServeMan the true meaning]] of the Kanamit book ''To Serve Man''. In the short story by Creator/DamonKnight, it is a man named Gregori.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E29FourOClock Four O'Clock]]", Oliver Crangle's parrot is a male named Pete. In the short story by Price Day, the parrot is a female named [[ADogNamedDog Pet]].
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S4E5Mute Mute]]", the telepathic child is a girl named Ilse Nielsen while the Wheelers have lost their daughter Sally. In the short story by Creator/RichardMatheson, the telepathic child is a boy named Paal Nielsen while the Wheelers have lost their son David.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S4E14OfLateIThinkOfCliffordville Of Late I Think of Cliffordville]]", Satan appears to William J. Feathersmith in the form of Miss Devlin. In the short story "Blind Alley" by Malcolm Jameson, Satan (most commonly called His Nibs) assumes a male form with the conventional appearance of "the vermilion anthropoid modified by barbed tail, cloven hoofs, horns and a wonderful sardonic leer."
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'':
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E9 Dead Woman's Shoes]]", Maddie Duncan is possessed by the spirit of a murdered woman named Susan Montgomery when she puts on her expensive high heels. In the original episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E18DeadMansShoes Dead Man's Shoes]]", the murdered gangster Dane's personality takes control of a homeless man named Nate Bledsoe when he puts on his two-tone black and white shoes.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E16 To See the Invisible Man]]", Mitchell Chaplin meets an invisible woman who refuses to talk to him during his own sentence of invisibility. He later acknowledges her presence once he has completed his sentence. In the short story by Creator/RobertSilverberg, the other invisible person was a man.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E23 Shadow Play]]", Adam Grant's defense attorney Erin Jacobs goes to the district attorney Mark Ritchie over her concerns that Adam may be telling the truth about all of them being characters in his [[RecurringDreams recurring nightmare]] about being executed. In the [[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E26ShadowPlay original episode]], the matter was first raised by the [[AdaptationalJobChange newspaper editor]] Paul Carson.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S3E16 The Cold Equations]]", the Ship's Record clerk is a woman. In the [[Literature/TheColdEquations short story]] by Tom Godwin, the clerk is a man.
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* ''Series/TwelveMonkeys'', an adaptation of the [[Film/TwelveMonkeys 1995 movie]], has Jeffrey Goines turn into ''Jennifer'' Goines.
* In ''Series/TheAdventuresOfShirleyHolmes'', Sherlock's descendant and {{Expy}} is his great-grandniece. And her archenemy is [[PunnyName Molly Hardy]].
* In ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', the African-American PosthumousCharacter Paula Holt becomes a white guy called Paul. [[AdaptationalSexuality Still married to Mr Terrific, though.]]
* In the second series of ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'', Creator/HonorBlackman (as Dr. Cathy Gale) replaced Creator/IanHendry (Dr. David Keel) as John Steed's partner. In her earliest appearances (scripts written much earlier for Hendry), her dialogue was left completely unchanged. This is sometimes credited with making Cathy Gale a particularly memorable female character for the early '60s.
* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'':
** Starbuck and Boomer are Gender Flipped (and {{Race Lift}}ed) from [[Series/BattlestarGalactica1978 the original]]. As often happens with actors who find themselves replaced, Creator/DirkBenedict was less than happy about it, referring to his heir as "Stardoe" (har har). Creator/KevinSmith joked about this when he hosted a ''Battlestar Galactica'' panel at Comic Con.
--->'''Smith:''' ''[to Ron Moore and David Eick]'' I'm glad you guys changed Starbuck into a woman. Otherwise it would have made all those kissing scenes with Lee really awkward.
** Lloyd Bridges' Commander Cain was also revived as Michelle Forbes' (now Admiral) Helena Cain. But they're both equally crazy.
* Jonathan Cartwright/Mouse in ''Series/Batwoman2019'' is a GenderFlip of Batman villain Jane Doe, who likewise impersonates people with flayed-skin masks, and was named as Jane Cartwright in ''Series/{{Gotham}}''.
* The production of ''Theatre/SwanLake'' put on in ''Series/TheBigLeap'' uses genderblind casting. This coupled with several cast changes causes several roles to have this. Simon is Odile the Black Swan, Brittney is briefly Prince Siegfried, Aja is Von Rothbart by the final production, and the show makes a big deal out of casting two women as the Siegfried's parents (with a sound cue that bellows "'''two mommies'''" whenever it's brought up).
* ''Series/TheBionicWoman'' is a gender flipped reimagining of ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'', at least one episode of which was plot and dialogue identical. At the end, the titular hero has to provide an impromptu explanation of how his or her finger came to be cut. The explanation given in both cases was "I [[CutHimselfShaving cut myself shaving]]".
* In ''Series/BlackLightning2018'', Erica Moran is a gender-flipped version of Freight Train from ''ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders'', real name Eric Moran.
* Servalan in ''Series/BlakesSeven'' was originally a man and was originally supposed to appear once. Once Jacqueline Pearce entered the picture, that all changed.
* ''Series/TheBoys2019'': Madelyn [[note]]James[[/note]] Stillwell and Grace [[note]]Greg[[/note]] Mallory. Season 2 has Stormfront played by a woman while "Vic the Veep" Neumann is reimagined into Victoria Neumann.
* ''Series/BraveNewWorld'': Mustapha Mond, the male World Controller in the book, is now female.
* In the Japanese mini-series ''[[Manga/BloodOnTheTracks Chi no Wadachi]]'', the investigator character is played by Creator/TaoOkamoto. The character was a man in the original novel.
* In the ''Series/DeathNote'' live-action drama, Near, who is a boy in the manga, was played by a teenage girl and deliberately had their gender [[AmbiguousGender left ambiguous]].
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E5TheWebPlanet The Web Planet]]", the character Vrestin, leader of the Menoptera war party, was written as male (like all the other Menoptera). However, when casting the character, the cast and crew were impressed with the choreographer hired to create the 'insect movement' and cast her as Vrestin without changing anything in the script besides pronouns, resulting in one of the most powerful ActionGirl supporting characters in 60s ''Who''. Vrestin is male in the Target novelisation of the story (''Doctor Who and the Zarbi''), which is based on the original script.
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E1Galaxy4 Galaxy 4]]", the Drahvins were originally all male, until producer Verity Lambert suggested making them all-female.
** Gia Kelly in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E5TheSeedsOfDeath The Seeds of Death]]" was originally a man.
** Morgan in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E4ColonyInSpace Colony in Space]]" was originally a woman, with Susan James cast in the role. However, she was replaced by Tony Caunter when the BBC's Head of Drama Serials made an unusual intervention and decided the role was inappropriate for a woman to perform. James was nevertheless paid in full.
** The human president in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E3FrontierInSpace Frontier in Space]]" was originally a man.
** Bettan in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks Genesis of the Daleks]]" was originally a man. Aside from Sarah Jane Smith, she's the only female character in the story.
** Marn in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E4TheSunMakers The Sun Makers]]" was originally a man.
** Dr. Solow and Preston in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E1WarriorsOfTheDeep Warriors of the Deep]]" were originally men, until director Pennant Roberts made them female. Roberts usually gender-flipped at least one role in every story he directed.
** Averted in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E7TheTwinDilemma The Twin Dilemma]]", as Creator/JohnNathanTurner was encouraged to cast two more experienced female actresses in the roles of the CreepyTwins, but chose male actors because he believed it was crucial the characters be boys for the script to work. He [[RuleOfSymbolism may have had a point about this]] (the twins can be read as a PlotParallel for the Doctor's fragmented personality following his regeneration).
** The stage play adaptation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E5TheRobotsOfDeath The Robots of Death]]" turns Uvanov, Borg, Cass and Dask into women. One would think that this was being done to obscure which character is secretly the pro-robotist terrorist Taren Capel, but the main characters refer to Taren as 'she' from the beginning. Another side effect of this is that it means the only surviving male character of the story is Poul (who exists as a gibbering vegetable).
** Pope Benedict IX is portrayed as a woman in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E6Extremis Extremis]]". Considering the scandalous nature of his reign, this was probably much safer than portraying him accurately. It also doubles as a ShoutOut to the legend of Pope Joan. However, [[spoiler:it's later revealed that nearly the entirety of the episode was part of a simulation.]]
* ''Series/DoomPatrol2019''
** Cyborg's childhood friend Ron Evers is now his love interest ''Roni'' Evers.
** The Brotherhood of Dada is now the Sisterhood of Dada, although in fact, only two members are examples: the Fog (whose real name is changed from Byron Shelley to Shelley Byron) and the Quiz (whose real name was never revealed in the comics). Sleepwalk was already a woman and Frenzy remains male, as is [[CanonForeigner new member]] Malcolm.
* In ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', Van Helsing is a man. In ''Series/Dracula2020'', there are [[DecompositeCharacter two]] Van Helsings, both female.
* In another Franchise/SherlockHolmes adaptation, ''Series/{{Elementary}}'', John Watson has been changed to Joan Watson and is played by Creator/LucyLiu. As Liu is Chinese American, this is a RaceLift [[TwoferTokenMinority as well]]. Also, [[spoiler: Moriarty]] is now a [[spoiler: woman]] and is combined with [[spoiler:Irene]].
* One of the episodes of the new ''Series/FantasyIsland'' featured a terminally ill woman who wanted to experience life as a soldier in a combat zone. Instead of being placed with a company of male soldiers like she expected, she was placed in a gender-reversed version of TheSquad, which was filled with the requisite roughneck personality types, only with women playing the roles.
* ''Series/TheFlash2014'':
** A crossover event between that show and ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' introduced a Gender Flip of ComicBook/TheAtom's enemy, the Bug-Eyed Bandit, with "Bertram Larvan" becoming "Brie Larvan" (portrayed by Creator/EmilyKinney).
** Season 3 introduces the Top as a young woman, with the character's name changed from "Roscoe Dillon" to "Rosalind 'Rosa' Dillon" (portrayed by Ashley Rickards).
** Season 4's "Luck Be A Lady", introduces Becky "Hazard" Sharp, who is female in both the series and the comics ... except the details of how her WindsOfDestinyChange powers work are altered slightly to essentially make her a gender flip of Amos Fortune, specifically the way he's presented in ''[[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational Justice League Europe]]''.
** Season 4 also introduces the show's version of Black Bison, who is a woman named Mina Chayton instead of a man named John Ravenhair.
** Also in Season 4 is a version of Fiddler, who instead of an elderly man named Isaac Bowen is a younger woman named Izzy Bowen.
** And obscure ''ComicBook/{{Hawkman}}'' character Null, who's a woman named Janet Petty instead of a man named, well, Null, as far as we know.
** Joss Jackam, the Weather Witch, is very loosely based on Weather Wizard's son in the comics, Josh Jackam.
** Season 5 introduces Spin, who is changed from a man known only as Mr. Auerbach to a woman named Spencer Young.
** Evan [=McCulloch=], a.k.a Mirror Master II, is adapted as Eva [=McCulloch=].
** The Red Death is an alternate universe version of [[Comicbook/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]] in the comics, but in the series, Red Death is instead [[spoiler:an alternate incarnation of Ryan Wilder, the second Series/{{Batwoman|2019}}]].
* In the TV movie that inspired ''Series/ForeverKnight'', the medical examiner and SecretKeeper who'd met Nick when he woke up in the morgue had been male.
* ''Series/FullerHouse'' flips the genders of its antecedent series. In the original, Danny Tanner (a man) raised three girls with help from his two pals (also men), in the new show, DJ Tanner (a woman) raises three boys with help from her two pals (women).
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** For an unknown reason, the Dornish practise of open succession (i.e a firstborn girl inherits before her younger brother) was erased. This leads to some notable Dornish ladies who rule in their own right being changed into men. In particular, Oberyn refers to his father as being Prince of Dorne before him, when in actual fact his mother was the reigning Princess. And in the books, the head of the delegation Tyrion meets outside King's Landing is a woman. An HBO press release named Prince Trystane rather than [[AdaptedOut Princess Arianne]] as the heir to Prince Doran Martell.
** Bronn's betrothed Lollys is said to be a daughter of ''Lord'' Stokeworth rather than the elderly Lady Tanda Stokeworth of the novels.
** House Cerwyn was actually headed by a ''woman'' at the point in the novels where they are introduced in the show, Jonelle Cerwyn, after the Boltons killed her father and brother. The TV version omitted Jonelle and kept her brother alive — actually part of a pattern of gender-swapping minor background vassals from female to male.
* ''Series/TheGoldbergs'' depicts producer Adam Goldberg's life in TheEighties, but with one major difference: in real life, he has two brothers, Barry and Eric. On the show, he has a brother Barry and a sister Erica.
** This particular example gets an InUniverse inversion in "8-Bit Goldbergs". In Adam's computer game based on his family, Erica is replaced by a man named Eric and her boyfriend Geoff Schwartz becomes Eric's girlfriend Geoffina.
* ''Series/GoodOmens2019'': Pollution is nonbinary, referred to in the narration as "they", and played by a woman. Beelzebub is a woman as well, as are the Archangels Michael and Uriel, and most notably God Herself (but she's just a voice).
* ''Series/{{Gotham}}'' changes Firefly from a white male named Garfield Lynns to a young Latina woman named Bridget Pike (played by Michelle Veintimilla).
* A zig-zagged example takes place in Series/HallmarkHallOfFame's 2005 miniseries ''Hercules''. In this adaptation, the Nemean Lion is a male animal, but it can turn into a beautiful woman in order to seduce their enemies into letting their guard down. Then again, the miniseries fuses this character with the Theban Sphynx, so the monster is probably female after all, only that its true form looks like a male lion.
* ''Literature/RedDragon'''s male reporter Freddie Lounds becomes the female reporter Fredricka Lounds in the TV adaptation ''Series/{{Hannibal}}''. In the same show, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Alan Bloom becomes Alana Bloom and is given some angsty {{UST}} with Will Graham.
* ''Series/TheHardyBoys2020'': Biff Hooper, a teenage boy in [[Literature/TheHardyBoys the novels]], is made into a teenage girl in the Creator/{{Hulu}} series.
* ''Series/HawaiiFive0'' makes Kono a woman (renamed Kona, but still nicknamed "Kono"). She's played by Grace Park, who was previously best known as the gender-flipped Boomer in ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003''.
* ''It Happened One Christmas'' (1977) is a TV-Movie Gender Flip of ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'' starring Marlo Thomas. Played completely straight.
* ''Literature/HighFidelity'': Rob, originally a man in the book, film and musical is made a woman for the series.
* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Antoinette Brown (a woman) is based on Antoine (a man) from ''Literature/TheVampireChronicles'', a musician (although she's more precisely a singer) who becomes Lestat de Lioncourt's lover and is later turned into a vampire.
* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' spoofs the trope in "The Gang Beats Boggs: Ladies' Reboot", where Dee leads a delegation of the show's female characters in rehashing the concept of a previous EpisodeOnAPlane. Artemis keeps complaining that the idea is lazy and suggesting that they do something new instead.
* ''The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story'' gender-bends Bagheera - and Bagheera alone - so that s/he's a female for the duration of a movie. This is probably so that Mowgli can have a mother-figure without adding in Mother Wolf, the she-wolf from the book, but it can be a little odd for a kid only familiar with the Disney version.
** It's not the first time that Bagheera was a female. The Soviet series ''Animation/AdventuresOfMowgli'' did the same. Due to how Bagheera has a feminine pronunciation in Russian.
* Mrs. Lee from ''Series/KimsConvenience'' was a man named ''Mr.'' Lee in the original play.
* In ''Series/{{Krypton}}'', the terrorist Jax-Ur is an attractive woman in her 40s instead of an old man.
* ''Series/LegendOfTheSeeker'': In the books, everyone refers to the Creator as "he". Here, it's the opposite, and her ([[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane apparent]]) human avatar is a woman.
* ''Series/LetTheRightOneIn'': Eli in the novel is a castrated boy. Eleanor is a girl.
* ''Series/LockwoodAndCo2023'': Pamela Joplin was Albert Joplin in [[Literature/LockwoodAndCo the book series]], while Fairfax's assistant Ellie was a big hulking male thug named Grebe.
* In ''Series/LostInSpace2018'', Dr. Zachary Smith is now a woman played by Creator/ParkerPosey. [[spoiler:In a subversion, it actually turns out that "Dr. Smith" is a con woman who stole the identity of this continuity's Zachary Smith.]]
* ''Series/LovecraftCountry'' has a few examples, such as George and Hippolyta's son Horace becoming their daughter Dee, and Caleb Braithwaite becoming Christina Braithwaite.
* ''Series/Lucifer2016'':
** The angel Remiel is a white man in [[ComicBook/{{Lucifer}} the comics]], but is depicted as an Asian woman in the show.
** Gabriel is also changed from a white male to an AmbiguouslyBrown woman.
* In ''Series/MacGyver1985'', the title character took his orders from Pete Thornton. In the [[Series/MacGyver2016 reboot]], this role is filled by ''Patricia'' Thornton [[spoiler: until she's discovered to be a mole for the enemy, arrested, and replaced by Matty Webber.]]
* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
** In ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'', the Flag-Smasher is a woman named Karli Morgenthau rather than a man named Karl Morgenthau.
** In ''Series/Hawkeye2021'', Detective Rivera is a man, rather than a woman.
** Jeryn Hogarth, a male lawyer in the comics, is played by Creator/CarrieAnneMoss in ''Series/JessicaJones2015'', with the character becoming "Jeri Hogarth" instead. [[AdaptationalSexuality Still attracted to women, though.]]
** Zigzagged with ''Series/MoonKnight2022''. While Layla El-Faouly is loosely based on Marc Spector's wife, Marlene, she also becomes a female version of [[spoiler: The Scarlet Scarab]]. Her last name "Faouly" is a reference to the Abdul & Mehemet Faoul, who used the alias in the comics.
* The Japanese series ''Series/MissSherlock'' is an update of Sherlock Holmes set in modern day Tokyo. Sherlock becomes Sara "Sherlock" Futaba, while Watson becomes Wato Tachibana.
* ''Series/Missing2012'' (female secret agent searches for her kidnapped son) seems to be a gender-flipped TV version of ''Film/{{Taken}}'' (male ex-secret agent searches for his kidnapped daughter).
* In-universe example: In the ''Series/{{Monk}}'' episode "Mr. Monk and the Actor", there's a movie adaptation being made of the Steve Wagner case (in "Mr. Monk and the Astronaut"). In this movie, Monk is played by method actor David Ruskin (Creator/StanleyTucci), Natalie is played by a blonde actress, and Captain Stottlemeyer is a cameo appearance by Creator/PeterWeller. As for Randy Disher, he was wholly expecting Creator/BradPitt to be portraying him in the movie. Instead, Randy is replaced with a gorgeous brunette actress who becomes a love interest for Captain Stottlemeyer. The real Stottlemeyer and Disher don't know this when they show up on the set to watch a rehearsal, leading to a ''very'' awkward moment when the actors lean in for a kiss.
-->'''Captain Leland Stottlemeyer:''' That ''never happened''.\\
'''Lt. Randall Disher:''' Not even once.
* ''Series/{{Monkey}}'', an adaptation of ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'', changed the gender of certain characters: Tripitaka is now a woman, Buddha is a goddess and Guanyin a god.
* Creator/TheBBC's 2012 SettingUpdate of ''Literature/NicholasNickleby'' has Nick working at a BleakAbyssRetirementHome called Dotheolds Hall, in place of the BoardingSchoolOfHorrors Dotheboys Hall. Smike, the "simple" boy Nicholas befriends and rescues from the place, becomes a senile old lady named Mrs. Smike.
* In ''Literature/TheNightmareRoom'' episode "My Name Is Evil", the protagonist is male when she was female in the original story. The protagonist's peers were similarly gender flipped.
* ''Series/OnceUponATime'' changes Jack the Giant Killer to ''Jacqueline'' the Giant Killer.
* In ''Series/OnePiece2023'', Sham, one of Kuro's minions, in a woman, while her [[Manga/OnePiece manga]] counterpart is a man.
* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'': In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S2E9IRobot I, Robot]]", Dr. Charles Link's closest living relative is his niece Nina. In the 1939 short story "[[Literature/AdamLink The Trial of Adam Link, Robot]]" by Eando Binder on which it is based, his closest relative is his nephew Tom.
* ''Series/PartOfMe'': In both ''El cuerpo del deseo'' and ''En cuerpo ajeno'', it was an older man who [[SharingABody inhabited the body of a younger man]]; here, it's an older woman inhabiting the body of a younger woman.
* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'': The fullest effects of this trope are best seen in the seasons that are actual adaptations of the source shows including character portrayals, though for some instances, this trope applies only in combat when the Ranger adaptation would only use fight footage rather than adapting episode plots.
** When ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'' was "[[ForeignRemake remade]]" into ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', the male Tiger Ranger became the female Yellow Ranger in order to have [[TwoGirlsToATeam two female Rangers]] instead of [[SmurfettePrinciple just one]]. This practice started a trend for Yellow Rangers when four later ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' shows were adapted into ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' seasons: the male Yellow Rangers from ''[[Series/SeijuuSentaiGingaman Gingaman]]'', ''[[Series/RescueSentaiGoGoFive Gogo-V]]'', ''[[Series/MiraiSentaiTimeranger Timeranger]]'' and ''[[Series/HyakujuuSentaiGaoranger Gaoranger]]'' were turned into females in their corresponding adaptations (''[[Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy Lost Galaxy]]'', ''[[Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue Lightspeed Rescue]]'', ''[[Series/PowerRangersTimeForce Time Force]]'', and ''[[Series/PowerRangersWildForce Wild Force]]''). This practice would cause inconsistencies between the imported Japanese footage and the locally-filmed new footage, in which the Yellow Ranger would switch from having a masculine figure in one scene to having a feminine one in the next.
** Tsuruhime, the ''Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger'' White Ranger, underwent heavy DecompositeCharacter treatment. Of the three characters to take on her roles, two (Alien Ranger Delphine and MMPR Katherine) were still women, while her role as team leader and one of her Zords went to the male Tommy Oliver.
** Katie from ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'' was made similar to Domon from ''Timeranger'', although many of the latter's traits were given to Lucas and Trip. From what was left, Domon's nostalgia for sumo wrestling competitions got adapted as Katie missing her family, a much more emotional and feminine intake on the feeling; similarly, the subplot with Domon's relationship with a female photographer who discovered his identity was changed to a one-off deal between Katie and a male photographer who unmasked her that didn't go anywhere, due to males pursuing relationships being less common (and to make room for focus on the [[SpotlightStealingSquad Rangers who wore any]] [[LawOfChromaticSuperiority shade of red]]).
** Taylor from ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'', on the other hand, was almost identical to Gaku from ''Gaoranger'' in terms of background and plot, the only major differences being personality (Taylor was a bold DefrostingIceQueen, Gaku was friendly from the very beginning and somewhat quirky) and rank (Taylor was a lieutenant, whereas Gaku was a soldier). As a female {{Lancer}} was proven successful the previous season, Taylor got a better end of the stick than her yellow predecessor, who was TheBigGuy and therefore more expendable.
* ''Series/QueenOfSwords'' was pretty much a straight Gender Flip of {{Franchise/Zorro}}, to the point that Sony sued over its resemblance to the character and its 1998 ''Film/TheMaskOfZorro'' film.[[note]]The judge ruled against Sony, holding that both the original Zorro story and its first (1920) film adaptation were now in the public domain, and any similarities to the 1998 film were incidental.[[/note]]
* The crew of the ''Series/RedDwarf'' ''meet'' the Gender Flipped versions of themselves in a parallel universe. Although, not all of them were flipped. The Cat, the ultimate narcissist, is looking forward to meeting the feminine version of himself for... obvious reasons. However, his opposite number is a male Dog with zero dress sense.
** Eventually, when Creator/NormanLovett, who played Holly, left, they just hired Creator/HattieHayridge, who played his Gender Flip Hilly and said that Holly got a sex change to look like Hilly.
** Captain Hollister is a man in the TV series, and a woman in the tie-in novels.
** In the second pilot for the US version, the Cat was played by Terry Farrell (who would go on to be Jadzia in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'') as a "feline warrior woman". (The original pilot had Hinton Battle playing the role much as Danny John-Jules did.) In the end, the American remake never aired anyway.
* ''Series/Revenge2011'', a modern-day reimagining of ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'', gender-flips the protagonist Edmond Dantes to be Emily Thorne. Rather than having been framed herself like Edmond, Emily is the daughter of a man who was framed and falsely imprisoned.
* In the anthology series ''Series/TheRivalsOfSherlockHolmes'', one episode adapts Robert Barr's "The Absent-Minded Coterie". The clever Mr. Macpherson becomes the equally clever Miss Mackail.
* Djaq in ''Series/RobinHood'' is a Gender Flip of the Saracen outlaw seen in ''Series/RobinOfSherwood'' (Nassir) and ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'' (Azeem). ... And ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'' (Achoo).
* Lucky in ''Series/TheSchoolNurseFiles'' was a boy in the original novel, but the director changed him into a girl for the series.
* The American remake of the Australian show ''Secrets & Lies'' transforms lead investigator Ian Cornielle into Andrea Cornell.
* Due to being unable to find suitable actresses, the Indian remake of ''Series/ShakeItUp'' rewrote the leads as boys.
* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'':
** Watson's brother, "H. Watson", mentioned in "The Sign of Four", becomes John's ''sister'', Harry (short for Harriet).
** "[[Recap/SherlockS02E02TheHoundsOfBaskerville The Hounds of Baskerville]]": Dr. James Mortimer becomes Dr. Louise Mortimer.
** Laura Lyons becomes a young, male Corporal Lyons.
** Stapleton is a trickier case; there's a Mr. Stapleton and Miss Stapleton in the book, but only one (female) Dr. Stapleton in the programme. The plot's been changed sufficiently that you can't tell which one she's meant to be by her actions.
** The King of Bohemia becomes an unnamed female British royal in "[[Recap/SherlockS02E01AScandalInBelgravia A Scandal in Belgravia]]".
** In John's CharacterBlog, Dr Barnicot from "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons" becomes [[http://www.johnwatsonblog.co.uk/blog/19december Sally Barnicot]].
** In the actual episode "[[Recap/SherlockS04E01TheSixThatchers The Six Thatchers]]", which probably makes the above blog post CanonDiscontinuity, there is a brief reference to one of the busts belonging to a Miss Orrie Harker, counterpart to the original's Horace Harker.
** In the same episode, DI Stella Hopkins is based on Inspector Stanley Hopkins, introduced in "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange".
* In the American version of ''Series/{{Skins}}'', most characters are transplanted from the British series except for the openly gay Maxxie. Maxxie becomes the lesbian Tea. The fact that they followed the same storyline with the character sleeping with Tony has several UnfortunateImplications.
* In ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', Creator/GeneRoddenberry sort of gender flipped the First Officer role, which was originally written as an emotionally distant, supremely rational NumberTwo (named "Number One"). NBC objected, however (not due to the casting of a female so much as the casting of the ''particular'' female, Majel Barrett, who happened to be Roddenberry's mistress at the time.) While different in several ways (most obviously, being an alien), Mr. Spock essentially assumed both her role as First Officer and her [[TheSpock rationality and lack of emotion]].
* ''Series/Supergirl2015'':
** Dr. Emil Hamilton is changed to Dr. Amelia Hamilton.
** N'or Cott was a male Martian in the comics, but is briefly mentioned in "Rebirth" with female pronouns.
* In ''Series/SupermanAndLois'', General Hardcastle from [[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries the 90s cartoon]] is a woman.
* The CBS All Access adaptation of ''Series/TheStand2020'' changed the Rat Man into the Rat Woman.
* When a {{Revival}} of ''Series/TheTimeTunnel'' was attempted in 2002, male scientist Dr. ''Tony'' Newman was changed to female scientist Dr. ''Toni'' Newman.
* ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy2019'': In [[ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy the comics]], Vanya is a cis woman. In the show, ''Viktor'' comes out as a trans man in Season 3 due to Creator/ElliotPage's [[QueerCharacterQueerActor own gender transition]].
* In the books of ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'', Elena had a 4-year-old sister. In the TV show, she has a teenage brother. The boarding house Stefan stayed in was also owned by an elderly woman instead of Stefan's and Damon's "uncle".
* This isn't unique to ''Power Rangers'' either. Priest Poe from ''Series/SpaceSheriffShaider'' was a transvestite, but his ''Series/VRTroopers'' equivalent was a woman named Despera.
* ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010'' does this to a few notable characters from [[ComicBook/TheWalkingDead the comics]]:
** The male Dr. Stevens from the comics subverts this. His name is given to a woman, [[InNameOnly but it turns out]] that he's a DecompositeCharacter, and Dr. Stevens' CharacterDevelopment from the comics is given to Milton Mamet, who is also male.
** Twins Ben and Billy become sisters Lizzie ([[AgeLift older]]) and Mika (younger), respectively. [[DecompositeCharacter Ben does appear beforehand, though]].
** In Season 5, Alexandria Safe-Zone's first couple Douglas and Regina Monroe, respectively, are introduced as Deanna and Reg Monroe.
* ''Series/Warehouse13'' plays with this trope; H.G. Wells is split into two people; the real H.G. Wells is Helena G. Wells, the genius inventor, adventurer, and warehouse agent. The man recognized as Creator/HGWells is her older brother Charles, who chronicled her adventures using her abbreviated name as a pen name.
* The ''Series/WarriorNun'' Creator/{{Netflix}} series changes Julian Salvius to ''Jillian'' Salvius.
* ''Series/WillAndGrace''. Will wanted to stage an all-male rendition of ''Literature/BenHur'' titled "Ben-Him". Grace mentioned her mother appeared as "Millie Loman" in "Death of a Sales Lady". Grace's mother also mentions not even wanting to audition for 'The Ice-Person Cometh'.
* The title character in Creator/{{NBC}}'s live broadcast of ''Theatre/TheWiz'' is played by Music/QueenLatifah:
-->'''Dorothy:''' The Wiz is...\\
'''Cowardly Lion:''' ...a fraud!\\
'''Tinman:''' ...and a woman!\\
'''Dorothy:''' ''And what's wrong with being a woman?''
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'':
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E16TheHitchHiker The Hitch-Hiker]]", the protagonist is a woman named Nan Adams. In ''The Orson Welles Show'' radio play by Lucille Fletcher on which it was based, the protagonist is a man named Ronald Adams. [[CreatorBacklash Fletcher was not pleased by this change]]. Furthermore, in the radio version, Ronald picks up a woman and briefly gives her a lift, but she leaves after he tries to run over the hitch-hiker. In the television version, Nan gives a lift to a male sailor, who leaves for the same reason.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E24ToServeMan To Serve Man]]", a translator named Betty discovers [[ToServeMan the true meaning]] of the Kanamit book ''To Serve Man''. In the short story by Creator/DamonKnight, it is a man named Gregori.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E29FourOClock Four O'Clock]]", Oliver Crangle's parrot is a male named Pete. In the short story by Price Day, the parrot is a female named [[ADogNamedDog Pet]].
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S4E5Mute Mute]]", the telepathic child is a girl named Ilse Nielsen while the Wheelers have lost their daughter Sally. In the short story by Creator/RichardMatheson, the telepathic child is a boy named Paal Nielsen while the Wheelers have lost their son David.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S4E14OfLateIThinkOfCliffordville Of Late I Think of Cliffordville]]", Satan appears to William J. Feathersmith in the form of Miss Devlin. In the short story "Blind Alley" by Malcolm Jameson, Satan (most commonly called His Nibs) assumes a male form with the conventional appearance of "the vermilion anthropoid modified by barbed tail, cloven hoofs, horns and a wonderful sardonic leer."
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'':
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E9 Dead Woman's Shoes]]", Maddie Duncan is possessed by the spirit of a murdered woman named Susan Montgomery when she puts on her expensive high heels. In the original episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E18DeadMansShoes Dead Man's Shoes]]", the murdered gangster Dane's personality takes control of a homeless man named Nate Bledsoe when he puts on his two-tone black and white shoes.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E16 To See the Invisible Man]]", Mitchell Chaplin meets an invisible woman who refuses to talk to him during his own sentence of invisibility. He later acknowledges her presence once he has completed his sentence. In the short story by Creator/RobertSilverberg, the other invisible person was a man.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E23 Shadow Play]]", Adam Grant's defense attorney Erin Jacobs goes to the district attorney Mark Ritchie over her concerns that Adam may be telling the truth about all of them being characters in his [[RecurringDreams recurring nightmare]] about being executed. In the [[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E26ShadowPlay original episode]], the matter was first raised by the [[AdaptationalJobChange newspaper editor]] Paul Carson.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S3E16 The Cold Equations]]", the Ship's Record clerk is a woman. In the [[Literature/TheColdEquations short story]] by Tom Godwin, the clerk is a man.
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