History Main / GenderFlip

* The ''VideoGame/{{Bomberman}}'' series has the arcade spinoff ''Bomber Girl'', focusing on an all-female ([[AdaptationSpeciesChange and human]]) cast of playable characters. The main two Bomber characters are even flips of White Bomberman (Shiro) and Black Bomberman (Kuro).

* ''Fanfic/{{Spider-Ninja}}'' takes place not only in a part of the Spiderverse where the [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles TMNT]] exist, but where Peter Parker was born a girl (known as Petra Parker[[spoiler:[[AdoptiveNameChange -Hamato]]]]).

** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E116OfLateIThinkOfCliffordville 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."

** 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/TheTwilightZoneS3E83DeadMansShoes 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/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/TheTwilightZoneS2E62ShadowPlay original episode]], the matter was first raised by the [[AdaptationalJobChange newspaper editor]] Paul Carson.

* In ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' the African-American PosthumousCharacter Paula Holt becomes a white guy called Paul. [[AdaptationalSexuality Still married to Mr Terrific, though.]]

* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' remake:
** Gender Flips Starbuck and Boomer (also a RaceLift) from 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.

* Jonathan Cartwright/Mouse in ''Series/{{Batwoman|2019}}'' 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}}''.

* In ''Series/BlackLightning'', Erica Moran is a gender-flipped version of Freight Train from ''ComicBook/TheOutsiders'', real name Eric Moran.

* In ''Series/DoomPatrol2019''
** ComicBook/{{Cyborg}}'s childhood friend Ron Evers is now his love interest ''Roni'' Evers.

* ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'':

* ''Literature/TheHardyBoys'': Biff Hooper, a teenage boy in the novels, is made into a teenage girl in the Creator/{{Hulu}} series.
* The 2010 remake of ''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/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}''.

* In ''Series/{{Krypton}}'', the terrorist Jax-Ur is an attractive woman in her 40's instead of an old man.

* ''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 the 2018 ''Series/{{Lost in Space|2018}}'' reboot, 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/{{Lucifer|2016}}'':
** The angel Remiel is a white man in the comics, but is depicted as an Asian woman in the show.

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'': In "I, Robot", Dr. Charles Link's closest living relative is his niece Nina. In the 1939 short story "The Trial of Adam Link, Robot" by Eando Binder on which it is based, his closest relative is his nephew Tom.

* ''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.

* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'';

* In ''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}'':

* ''Series/{{The Umbrella Academy|2019}}'': 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".

* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' did this to few notable characters from the comics:
** The male Dr. Stevens from the comics subverts this. His name was given to a woman, [[InNameOnly but it turned out]] that he's a DecompositeCharacter, and Dr. Stevens' CharacterDevelopment from the comics was given to Milton Mamet who is also male.
** Twins Ben and Billy became sisters Lizzie ([[AgeLift older]]) and Mika (younger) respectively. [[InNameOnly Ben did appeared]] [[DecompositeCharacter beforehand though]].
** In Season 5, Alexandria Safe-Zone's first couple Douglas and Regina Monroe respectively gets introduced as Deanna and Reg Monroe.

-->'''Dorothy''': The Wiz is...\\
'''Cowardly Lion''': ...a fraud!\\
'''Tinman''': ...and a woman!\\
'''Dorothy''': ''And what's wrong with being a woman?''

** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E16TheHitchHiker 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/TheTwilightZoneS3E89ToServeMan 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/TheTwilightZoneS3E94FourOClock 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/TheTwilightZoneS4E107Mute 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 "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/TheTwilightZoneS3E83DeadMansShoes 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 "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 "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/TheTwilightZoneS2E62ShadowPlay original episode]], the matter was first raised by the [[AdaptationalJobChange newspaper editor]] Paul Carson.
** In "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.

** 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}}]].

* Jonathan Cartwright/Mouse in ''Series/{{Batwoman}}'' 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 famous duet "Baby, It's Cold Outside" used in films:
** It was first introduced in the movie ''Neptune's Daughter'' by Creator/EstherWilliams and Creator/RicardoMontalban. 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.
** Again flipped in a version with Creator/SelmaBlair and [[Series/TheOfficeUS Rainn Wilson]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hEJQbEYjRg Oh My!]]
** Probably in a ShoutOut (or not, this ''is'' Miss Piggy after all), one episode of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' had Miss Piggy being the "Wolf" to guest star Rudolf Nureyev's "Mouse".
** The Muppets seem to enjoy flipping this song: years later, in ''Lady Gaga & The Muppets' Holiday Spectacular'', Lady Gaga was the "Wolf" to Joseph Gordon-Levitt's "Mouse".

** The HumanPopsicle {{Expy}} of Hammer in the comic book ''Mickey Spillane's Mike Danger'' worked with a Lt. Patrick Chandler in the 1950s, but his descendant Patricia after he was thawed out in the future.

* In "Literature/LetTheRightOneIn" the vampire Eli despite being assumed to be female was actually a boy who was castrated as a child. In the American adaption "Film/LetMeIn" the vampire Abby is definitely female, there's even a deleted scene which shows Abby a female when she was turned.

* ''Film/TheHustle'' is ''Film/DirtyRottenScoundrels'' with conwomen preying on men instead of conmen preying on women. The tagline "Giving Dirty Rotten Men a Run for Their Money" acknowledges this.
* In ''Film/TheReturnOfSherlockHolmes'', Doctor Watson is a woman, played by actress Bessie Nellis.
* Creator/JessicaChastain's character in ''Film/DarkPhoenix'' is Vuk, a very obscure male alien who showed up back in ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' #4 during TheSixties. However, as Vuk's form was [[KillAndReplace stolen from a human woman she murdered]], her original alien gender is unknown.
* In the 2019 [[Film/{{Cats}} film adaptation]] of ''Theatre/{{Cats}}'', Old Deuteronomy (who is male in the musical and the [[Literature/OldPossumsBookofPracticalCats source material]]) is played by actress Creator/JudiDench.
* ''Film/LadyAndTheTramp2019'' changes Jock from male to female (her name becomes a nickname for Jacqueline), makes Jim Dear and Darling's baby a girl named Lulu instead of a boy, and changes the female Siamese cats into male [[AdaptationalSpeciesChange Devon Rexes.]]
* ''Film/{{Rags}}'' is a gender flip of ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'', where Cinderella is now a boy named Charlie with a stepfather and stepbrothers, and the Prince is a female popstar named Kadee Worth.
* ''Film/KissOfTheSpiderWoman'': Molina was a transgender woman in the book, but is a cisgender man now.
* ''Film/DollyDearest'': The film is basically a gender flip of ''Film/ChildsPlay'' with a girl and a female doll.
* The 2018 film ''The Adventures of Thomasina Sawyer'' is an adaptation of ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfTomSawyer'' in which ... well, the title says it all, really.
* ''Film/{{Dune 2021}}'' reimagines Liet Kynes, a white man in the novel and [[Film/Dune1984 the 1984 film]] (where he was played by Creator/MaxVonSydow), as a [[RaceLift Black]] woman played by Sharon Duncan-Brewster.
* The 2022 remake of ''Literature/SalemsLot'' has Dr. Cody, a man in the original novel and prior adaptations, played by Creator/AlfreWoodard.
* In ''Film/LeftBehindRiseOfTheAntichrist'', which is loosely based on the second half of the first ''Literature/LeftBehind'' book, investigative reporter Eric Miller becomes Erica Miller working for GWN.

* The Mina Davis books ''Literature/HungoverAndHandcuffed'' and ''Literature/AssholeYakuzaBoyfriend'' are gender-flipped film noir; the HardboiledDetective is a woman, as is her FriendOnTheForce and TheDon, while the [[FemmeFatale Femme Fatales]] are mostly male.

* The ''Literature/KhaavrenRomances'' are a fantasy [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace recycling]] of the ''D'Artagnan Romances'' (''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'' and its sequels). The Porthos-equivalent, Tazendra, is female. This leads to interesting results, as the original is very much a BoisterousBruiser, a character-type almost always male, and applying these traits to Tazendra not only makes her a rare female example, but also results in her having some of the traits of TheLadette.
* ''Musketeer Space'' is another gender-flipped ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'' (with the exception of Athos, for some reason), literally [[RecycledInSpace Recycled IN SPACE!]]. D'Artagnan becomes Dana, mysterious assassin Milady de Winter becomes [[spoiler:alien spy]] Milord de Winter, etc. And [[EthicalSlut Aramis]] continues to sleep with every woman around.
* ''Literature/{{Matilda}}'': Roald Dahl got the idea of a story about a boy called Billy developing telekinesis, but got writer's block and did a gender flip.
* Trivigaunte, in ''The Book of the Long Sun,'' is essentially a parody of fundamentalist Islam, but with the genders reversed.

* In Literature/TimeScout, one of the theories floating around is that the Ripper Watch Team might be looking for ''Jill'' the Ripper.

* GenderBender variants of ''Literature/DrJekyllAndMrHyde'' (where a male Jekyll becomes a female Hyde) are actually fairly common, but ''Two Women Of London: The Strange Case of Ms. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde'' is a feminist Gender Flip version of the story.
* Literature/HonorHarrington, in her role as ''Literature/HoratioHornblower'' JustForFun/InSpace!
* ''Literature/LifeAndDeathTwilightReimagined'' was rewritten by Meyer herself to show that Bella would have [[DamselInDistress reacted the same way]] to all the over-powering supernatural beings around her if she was a guy named Beau (though Beau is described as a little more OCD and a lot less angry). ''Every'' character is flipped save for Bella/Beau's parents, as Meyer felt it would have been harder to justify the dad getting custody and only later moving in with the mom.
* Babette Cole's ''Literature/PrinceCinders'' Gender Flips Cinderella, where Cinders is a skinny spotty fellow forced to clean up after his hairy older brothers and falls in love with a beautiful princess.
* The ''Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse'' novel ''The Knight, the Fool and the Dead'' has three interludes in which the story of "Literature/GodfatherDeath" is told; by Barbara to the First Doctor, by the Ninth to Rose, and by the Eighth to Brian the Ood. In Eight's version, Death's godchild is a girl. (The princess remains a princess.)
* ''Gender Swapped Greek Myths'' by Karrie Fransman and Jonathan Plackett is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, including Persea and Medeus, Arachnus the Weaver, Thesea and the Minoheifer, Pygmalia and Galateus, and Atalantus the Male Huntress.

* The She & Him version of "Baby, It's Cold Outside" has Creator/ZooeyDeschanel singing the (usually male) "Wolf" part and M. Ward doing the (usually female) "Mouse" part.

* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}: Power of the Primes'' had a G1-version of the Dinobot Slash from the ''[[Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction Age of Extinction]]'' toyline that depicts the character as female, which continued in the ''Earth Wars'' mobile game and manga from Japanese releases of the concurrent toylines.

* In the 1987 anime ''Anime/TheThreeMusketeers'', Aramis is a woman who disguised herself as a man to join the Musketeers. In the original novel, all the musketeers are men.

* In Marvel's all-ages Marvel Adventures imprint, [[ComicBook/AntMan Giant-Man]] is replaced by Giant-Girl, a teenage version of [[ComicBook/TheWasp Janet Van Dyne]]. However Hank Pym does later appear as Ant-Man.

* Tristan in ''ComicBook/Camelot3000'' is a rare simultaneous example of Gender Flip and GenderBender. The "role" of Sir Tristan is recast (via reincarnation) for a female... but Lady Tristan remembers her life as a man.
* One issue of ''ComicBook/SpiderMan [[{{Elseworld}} Fairy Tales]]'' was yet another gender-flipped Cinderella. Peter was Cinders, with ComicBook/{{Norman|Osborn}} and Harry Osborn as the evil stepfather and stepbrother. Gwen was the princess, and MJ a servant at the Osborn household who helped Peter (possibly a gender-flipped version of the {{Panto}} character Buttons.)

* ''VideoGame/{{Onmyoji}}'' features a male Tamamo-no-Mae.

* In the ''VideoGame/Persona4'' fanfiction, ''Fanfic/{{Facade}}'', the protagonist Yu Narukami is gender-swapped. Not much really changes, except for one thing: No-one knows Yu is female.

* ''Fanfic/{{Spider-Ninja}}'' takes place not only in a part of the Spiderverse where the [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles TMNT]] exist, but where Peter Parker was born a girl (known as Petra Parker[[spoiler:-Hamato]]).

** Arclight, a woman in the comics, was remade into a man. WordOfGod is that they didn't feel comfortable having Cyclops violently confront a woman while on a warpath as he did to the show's Arclight when [[spoiler: he asked about Sinister's location, believing he has Jean.]]