History Main / GenderFlip

* It's becoming increasingly popular to GenderFlip ''Manga/BlueExorcist'''s Rin. This isn't ''that'' hard to pull off considering he's already [[InTouchWithHisFeminineSide rather girly]] in canon, resulting in her tending to coming across as a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak.

* The ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' fanfic "All That Jazz" is a variation. It adapts ''Theatre/{{Chicago}}'' with characters from ''Supernatural'', most of which are the opposite gender of their counterparts from the play.

* Conversely, Bruce Campbell in ''The Franchise/EvilDead'' plays what is essentially the FinalGirl of the horror movie. It wasn't planned that way, however. The order in which characters died was actually determined by actor availability. If an actor left early in the shoot, his or her character also died early in the movie. Apparently Campbell was the one without a life, though that seems to have worked to his benefit in the long run.
** In the upcoming remake, the Ash expy will be a girl named Mia.
* The character of Dizzy Flores in ''Franchise/StarshipTroopers'' was a man in the [[Literature/StarshipTroopers original Robert A. Heinlein novel]]. In the [[Film/StarshipTroopers movie]], he was switched to a she, given a much bigger role, and played by Dina Meyers. ''WesternAnimation/RoughnecksStarshipTroopersChronicles'' followed the movie's lead.
** It would be more accurate to say that Dizzy Flores was turned into a character, as well as a woman, in the movie. In the book, Dizzy has no lines, only appears near the end of chapter 1, and dies at the end of it.

** Of course, it could simply have been that female animals are less willful (and ferocious) than their male counterparts, so using a female black leopard was both cheaper and less dangerous.
*** If that were the ''only'' reason, they could have just silently done it and figured the only people who would notice were those paying a disturbing amount of attention to a panther's genitalia. The opposite CrossCasting is usually more noticeable if you're not specifically looking for it, though it's occasionally done anyway (male ''dogs'' are somewhat easier to train than females, so "Lassie" was one such case, and they had to take great care with the shots because of it).

* The famous duet of seduction "Baby, It's Cold Outside" was first introduced in the movie ''Neptune's Daughter'' by Esther Williams and Ricardo Montalban. She plays "The Mouse" and he plays "The Wolf," as you would expect. But the song is soon reprised by Betty Garrett and Red Skelton, and this time he's the one who's resisting and she's the one who's advancing.

* Spotted in, of all things, ''SonOfMan'', an adaptation of the story of Jesus Christ that takes place in modern Africa. Several of the disciples are portrayed by women, with feminized versions of their original names to match.

* The film adaptation of ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' switched the roles of Hammond's grandchildren, making Lex (the girl) the older one and the computer genius.
** Like the ''Franchise/StarshipTroopers'' example above, this was done in order to give Lex more characterization. In the original novel Tim was a TeenGenius that was both computer savvy and obsessed with dinosaurs, while Lex was just annoying.

** And it happened again during the production of ''VantagePoint'' (2008), where Sigourney Weaver played the also originally male TV producer Rex Brooks.

* Arguably ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'', Disney's take on the fairy tale "Literature/{{Rapunzel}}". In the original story, Rapunzel was a commoner and her love interest was a prince, but in the Disney movie, Rapunzel is a princess and her love interest is a commoner.

* In what can be considered a MemeticMutation outbreak, gender-flipped versions of the cast of ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' recently took the internet by storm, with Kyonko at the center of it all. There are even ongoing fan projects, which can be read at [[http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=Suzumiya_Haruki_no_Seitenkan Baka-Tsuki]] and at [[http://wiki.sos-dan.com/wiki/Category:Genderbending the SOS-dan wiki]] to ''completely GenderFlip the light novels''. Both were born on this [[http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=63152 Animesuki thread]]. It also has a [[FanFic/SuzumiyaHaruhiNoSeitenkan page on this wiki]].

* ''Manga/SailorMoon'' is, effectively, a GenderFlip of the typical FiveManBand {{Sentai}} series.
** Similarly, {{Claymore}} is basically a GenderFlip of the typical Fighting {{Shounen}} series.

** Himaruya recently updated his blog [[http://himaruya.blog61.fc2.com/blog-entry-858.html#more with more genderflips]]. Including Taiwan, who goes from a GenkiGirl to a cute little boy [[RealMenWearPink with a flowery jacket pin.]]

* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' has a genderflip omake at the end of volume 4. Poor, poor Rock.

* ''OdaNobunaNoYabou'' is yet another GenderFlip take on Warring States period, but only ''partially''. For example, [[OdaNobunaga the eponymous character]] and Imagawa Yoshimoto are female, while Saitou Dousan, Takenaka Hanbei, and Asai Nagamasa remains male. [[spoiler:Actually, the last two are female too: Hanbei uses a male {{Familiar}} to act as her personage, while Nagamasa is being a SweetPollyOliver.]]

* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' is a GenderFlip of an ActionGirlfriend series: Kaname Chidori takes the place of the not-so-ordinary AudienceSurrogate and eventual ActionSurvivor, while Sousuke serves as the attractive and highly skilled but [[NoSocialSkills extremely socially inept]] [[BodyguardCrush bodyguard[=/=]love interest]] that enters her life and changes it forever.

* Tristan in ''ComicBook/{{Camelot 3000}}'' is a rare simultaneous example of GenderFlip and GenderBender. The "role" of Sir Tristan is recast (via reincarnation) for a female... but Lady Tristan remembers her life as a man.

* The SheCleansUpNicely plot of "Literature/{{Cinderella}}" and her sisters has a GenderFlip equivalent in "Literature/{{Bearskin}}", and such variants as "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/bearskin/stories/dongiovanni.html Don Giovanni de la Fortuna]]", "[[http://www.gwu.edu/~folktale/GERM232/bearskin/web%20pages/SoldierandtheBadMan.html The Soldier and the Bad Man]]", "[[http://www.gwu.edu/~folktale/GERM232/bearskin/web%20pages/RoadtoHell.html The Road to Hell]]", "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/bearskin/stories/rewardkindness.html The Reward of Kindness]]", [[http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0361.html#sutermeister "The Devil As Partner" and "Never Wash"]].
* Man/woman acquires a magical spouse, [[ForbiddenFruit violates a prohibition]], and must go on TheQuest to find the spouse again. The fairy tales classifed as "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/eastsunwestmoon/other.html The Search for the Lost Husband]]" are as plentiful as those classified "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/swanmaiden/other.html The Quest for a Lost Bride]]", making it impossible to say which is the original and which the GenderFlip.

* "Literature/CatherineAndHerFate" is a GenderFlip of a popular ChivalricRomance tale, the Man Tested by Fate.
* ''Literature/{{Prunella}}'' is a GenderFlip of many tales like ''Literature/TheWhiteDove'' where a man has to perform tasks and is helped by the daughter of the ogre or witch or whatever holding him captive.

** ''FanFic/WeasleyGirl'' keeps Harry a boy but gives the GenderFlip treatment to Ron Weasley instead, turning him into Veronica "Ronnie" Weasley.

* ''Film/{{Ran}}'' is a partial GenderFlip of ''Theatre/KingLear'', changing the gender of the daughters and Edmund.

* The ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'' remake {{Gender Flip}}s Starbuck and Boomer (also a RaceLift) from the original. And Commander (now Admiral) Cain.

* The crew of the ''Series/RedDwarf'' ''meet'' the {{GenderFlip}}ped 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 Norman Lovett, who played Holly, left, they just hired Hattie Hayridge, who played his GenderFlip Hilly and said that Holly got a sex change to look like Hilly.

* Djaq in ''Series/RobinHood'' is a GenderFlip of the Saracen outlaw seen in ''RobinOfSherwood'' (Nassir) and ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'' (Azeem).

* ''It Happened One Christmas'' (1977) is a TV-Movie GenderFlip of ItsAWonderfulLife starring Marlo Thomas. Played completely straight.

* ''Series/QueenOfSwords'' was pretty much a straight GenderFlip of {{Zorro}}, to the point that Sony sued over its resemblance to the character and its 1998 ''Mask of Zorro'' 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]]

* ''Errand Into The Maze'' by Martha Graham is a GenderFlip of the [[GreekMythology Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur]], expressing in dance. The creature may or may not [[MindScrew be entirely in her mind, representing Fear]].

* ''VideoGame/WarriorsOrochi Z'' recently features a genderflipped [[DistressedDude Tang Sanzang]] AKA [[Literature/JourneyToTheWest Genjou]] [[{{Saiyuki}} Sanzou]] as their most recent addition.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'', Kunimitsu was initially a palette swap of Yoshimitsu, but in the second game, was {{gender flip}}ped and given a mostly-new moveset.

* ChoiceOfGames' ''Choice Of Broadsides'' game allows you to play an entire ''genre'' under Gender Flipped conditions: rather than force the protagonist to be male, the player has the option of changing the setting to being [[WoodenShipsAndIronMen Wooden Ships and Iron]] '''[[GenderFlip Women]]'''. ''Choice of Romance'' is somewhat similar, but not quite as pronounced -- the game culture is a bisexual one. The player's choice of character sex and sexual orientation determines the sex of his/her suitors, but the suitors' characters remain the same.

* [[SherlockHolmes Colonel Sebastian Moran]] and Henry Irving have both been genderflipped in ''VisualNovel/ShikkokuNoSharnoth'', though for the former it's quite possibly that it is not her real name.

* Every team in {{RWBY}} is based on a particular theme. The theme of JNPR is [[ItMakesSenseInContext 'genderflipped heroes of legend of varying eras and nationalities.']] For example, JNPR has a [[JeanneDArchetype male Joan of Arc]] and female examples of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhus_of_Epirus Pyrrhus]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor Thor]].

* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' has Kallen Kouzuki, who is a gender flipped version of your standard SuperRobot HotBlooded AcePilot, who also has a [=BodyguardCrush=] on her boss. She makes it really obvious with her lines too.

* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' is a GenderFlip of an ActionGirlfriend series: Kaname Chidori takes the place of the not-so-ordinary AudienceSurrogate and eventual ActionSurvivor, while Sousuke serves as the attractive and highly skilled but [[NoSocialSkills extremely socially inept]] [[[=BodyguardCrush=] bodyguard/love interest]] that enters her life and changes it forever.

* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' has Kallen Kouzuki, who is a gender flipped version of your standard SuperRobot HotBlooded AcePilot, who also has a BodyGuardCrush on her boss. She makes it really obvious with her lines too.

* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' is a GenderFlip of an ActionGirlfriend series: Kaname Chidori takes the place of the not-so-ordinary AudienceSurrogate and eventual ActionSurvivor, while Sousuke serves as the attractive and highly skilled but [[NoSocialSkills extremely socially inept]] [[BodyguardCrush bodyguard/love interest]] that enters her life and changes it forever.

* TheSpirit's sidekick Ebony White is a girl in the ''[[FirstWaveDCU First Wave]]'' universe. This is because writer Brian Azzarello felt Ebony was more fitting as a female name in the 21st century.

* ''Oh My Godmother'' is the basic Cinderella story retold with a modern gay twist in which "Cinderella" is now a love-struck, gay, teenage boy.

* There was a stage play of "Literature/SleepingBeauty" where the beauty was played by a guy and it was the girl who administered the wake-up kiss.

* One of the many praises of ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' was how it managed to display this within TheHero Eren Jaeger and his adoptive sister Mikasa Ackerman, without sacrificing Eren's masculinity or Mikasa's femininity. One problem in shounen anime that reviewers constantly have to point out is the poor depiction of women: The few women who are worth something in a fight are often fanservice fodder, whereas others degenerate into {{Faux Action Girl}}s soon after their introduction at best. Mikasa is one of the strongest fighters in the cast, whether facing human enemies or the man-eating Titans the army is tasked with fighting. She also serves as a key protector of Eren, who becomes a LivingMacGuffin as the series goes on [[spoiler: both because and in spite of his ability to transform into a titan.]] All of these traits are normally reserved for someone in Eren's role. She also completely averts MsFanservice.[[hottip:*: The only time she's caught in a fanservicy moment is extra promotional materials, something not commissioned by the manga's creator, Hakime Isayama.]] On the other hand, Eren's character is in many ways what you'd expect from the female lead of similar shounen manga despite how he is the undisputed main character. While he is a well-rounded character who only wants to wipe out the Titans and defend humanity, he's been overwhelmed in fights before [[spoiler: despite having superpowers]], is a LivingMacGuffin which several groups want to kidnap and/or kill, and has been captured on more than one occasion. However, they do not sacrifice his masculinity, character development, or central role in the story for the sake of giving Mikasa someone to love and to rescue.

* Master Mold is female in ''WolverineAndTheXMen''.
* Spyke from ''WesternAnimation/{{X-Men Evolution}}'' seems like a [[RaceLift black]], [[SpearCounterpart male]] version of Marrow, but WordOfGod is that this was a complete coincidence. The show's creator claimed he had never heard of Marrow prior to working on the show, which is not too implausible given the character's relative obscurity.

* Neil Simon wrote a version of ''TheOddCouple'' with every role gender swapped, simply called ''The Female Odd Couple''. The biggest difference is that the British Pigeon sisters are changed to a pair of Spanish brothers, whose names and accents become the source of a great deal of wordplay.

* In the original ''MonkeyIsland2'', when Guybrush calls the LucasArts Help Desk (then [=LucasFilm=] Games Help Desk) on Dinky Island, the phone operator on the other end of the phone appears near him... and it appears to be [[GenderBlenderName a woman named Chester]]! In the redrawn Special Edition, however, Chester the phone operator is now a man. Interestingly, both characters can be found in the Special Edition version, with female Chester appearing in Classic mode and male Chester appearing in the high-definition mode, and both characters even have unique voice actors.

* One of the many praises of ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' was how it managed to display this within TheHero Eren jaeger and his adoptive sister Mikasa Ackerman, without sacrificing Eren's masculinity or Mikasa's femininity. One problem in shounen anime that reviewers constantly have to point out is the poor depiction of women: The few women who are worth something in a fight are often fanservice fodder, whereas others degenerate into {{Faux Action Girl}}s soon after their introduction at best. Mikasa is one of the strongest fighters in the cast, whether facing human enemies or the man-eating Titans the army is tasked with fighting. She also serves as a key protector of Eren, who becomes a LivingMacGuffin as the series goes on [[spoiler: both because and in spite of his ability to transform into a titan.]] All of these traits are normally reserved for someone in Eren's role. She also completely averts MsFanservice.[[hottip:*: The only time she's caught in a fanservicy moment is extra promotional materials, something not commissioned by the manga's creator, Hakime Isayama.]] On the other hand, Eren's character is in many ways what you'd expect from the female lead of similar shounen manga despite how he is the undisputed main character. While he is a well-rounded character who only wants to wipe out the Titans and defend humanity, he's been overwhelmed in fights before [[spoiler: despite having superpowers]], is a LivingMacGuffin which several groups want to kidnap and/or kill, and has been captured on more than one occasion. However, they do not sacrifice his masculinity, character development, or central role in the story for the sake of giving Mikasa someone to love and to rescue.

* In ''{{Series/Revenge}}'', a modern day reimagining of TheCountOfMonteCristo, the protagonist Edmonte Dantes is instead Emily Thorne, the daughter of a man framed and falsely imprisoned.

* Dare, in the Comicbook/AmalgamUniverse title ''Assassins'' was an [[CompositeCharacter amalgam] of Daredevil and Deathstroke, both male characters, but was female.

** ''FanFic/AndTheMysteriousCurseOfTheGirlWhoLived'' plays with this idea, keeping Harry a boy but placing him under a strange curse that makes everyone magical see him as a girl. With a very few exceptions (Dumbledore, Ollivander and Luna), the curse stops them from considering for even a moment that "Harriet" might not be a girl, no matter how many times Harry tries to tell them.

** [[AlphaFlight Sasquatch]] has the human identity of Rahne Sinclair rather than Walter Langkowski. [[ViewerGenderConfusion The reader is only made aware of this once]] [[SamusIsAGirl Sasquatch returns to her human form]], as otherwise it's nearly [[AmbiguousGender impossible to tell the monster's gender]].

[[caption-width-right:300:On the left, [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaClassic Lt. Starbuck]] (Dirk Benedict). On the right, [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Lt. Starbuck]] (KateeSackhoff).]]

->''What do I think of it being played by a woman, when it was played by a man in 1972, as part of a Scottish pagan community, and now it's played by a woman with the same name? What do I think of it? Nothing. There's nothing to say.''
-->-- '''ChristopherLee''' on the recasting of his role in the [[ForeignRemake American remake]] of ''TheWickerMan''

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* The Jerry Lewis movie ''{{Cinderfella}}''.

* The live-action adaptation of [[DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney's]] ''Disney/TheJungleBook'' 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 [[strike:Akela]] Mother Wolf, the she-wolf from the book, but it can be a little odd for a kid only familiar with the {{Disney}} version.

* Done in two recent versions of ''TreasureIsland''. In ''MuppetTreasureIsland'', Ben Gunn is changed to Benjamina Gunn just so [[TheMuppets Miss Piggy]] can have a role to play. In ''TreasurePlanet'', the captain is a [[CatGirl feline lady alien]] named Amelia.

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* In the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Musketeers_(1987_TV_series) !987 anime version]] of TheThreeMusketeers, Aramis is a woman who disguised herself as a man to join the musketeers.

* In the early planning stages of the ''JusticeLeague'' animated series, a female version of Comicbook/{{Cyborg{{ was supposed to be part of the main cast. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeUUafIh4nY Test footage of her even exists.]] The character design later appeared in the comics as Cyborg's EvilCounterpart and niece of his LoveInterest.