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7->''"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."''
8-->-- '''Creator/ChristopherLee''' on his role in ''Film/TheWickerMan1973'' being recast in [[Film/TheWickerMan2006 the 2006 remake]]
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10Here's a quick spin on an old story: flip the male roles to the women and the female roles to the men. If you are in a hurry, you only need to change the casting, a few honorifics, pronouns, and maybe a first name or two. If you are able to give it a little more thought, though, you can take this opportunity to explore how there might be a ''[[DoubleStandard difference]]'' in the way things play out with the genders reversed. It's a very old technique of retelling a story; many folk {{Fairy Tale}}s have '''Gender Flip''' variants.
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12Sometimes the [[TheRemake remake or reimagining]] of a work may involve Gender Flips due to societal changes on the SlidingScaleOfGenderInequality that, for example, would allow a formerly male NumberTwo to be an ActionGirl instead. Occasionally, the Gender Flip occurs with a work that's already in development, or even in production (due to, for example, an actor's sudden unavailability or simply a last-minute casting idea). The results can be particularly interesting in these cases, as the written role may be almost completely unchanged from its original opposite-gender version.
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14{{Fanfic}}s that use this trope are fairly common. RuleSixtyThree is closely related, but executed differently. A good general rule of thumb is that a RuleSixtyThree character ''looks'' like exactly the same character, as if subjected to GenderBender. Gender Flip characters will often differ from their originals in a great many ways other than the character's sex.
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16Supertrope of ShesAManInJapan, which is specifically about ''localizations'' changing a character's gender. Distinguished from CrosscastRole, in which the actor is the opposite sex of the character. For example, a production of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' that (as in Shakespeare's own day) had Ophelia played by a boy would be a CrosscastRole, but a production with a male actor playing a male ''character'' named "Ophelius" and referred to in the text with male pronouns would be a Gender Flip.
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18Not to be confused with GenderBender, though the terms are sometimes used interchangeably.[[note]]On this wiki, GenderBender is when a character's sex is changed InUniverse through AppliedPhlebotinum or the like. A Gender Flip is when a character's sex is changed through an adaptation, e.g. if a character is male in the book but is made female in the movie.[[/note]] If an AlternateUniverse flips everyone's sexes, that's GenderBentAlternateUniverse. When a song gets this treatment in a CoverVersion, that's TheCoverChangesTheGender.
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20Also note that this trope is not about "gender roles" in the generic sense. Those are covered (for examples involving couples, anyway) by MasculineGirlFeminineBoy. See also DistaffCounterpart and HistoricalGenderFlip. See also RaceLift when it's the ethnicity that changes.
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23!!Examples:
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25* [[GenderFlip/LiveActionFilms Film - Live Action]]
26* GenderFlip/LiveActionTV
27* GenderFlip/WesternAnimation
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31[[folder:Advertising]]
32* In the 1990s UK adverts for Coco Pops, Coco's gang included a male giraffe named Shorty and a female hippo named Hefty. The 2010 adverts feature a female giraffe and a male hippo (names unrevealed).
33* The 80s rebranding of Advertising/{{Freakies}} cereal turned the male Snorkledorf into the female Tooter and the female Goody-Goody into the male Hotdog. The two of them would be returned to their original genders and names for subsequent merchandise and lore, which chose to ignore the 80s canon in favor of the original.
34* In ''Advertising/TheMythOfOrpheusAndEurydice'', Aristaeus is a man in mythology, but is a woman in the film, and her affections are shifted from Eurydice to Orpheus.
35* It's not ''entirely'' clear if it's this or LarynxDissonance, but in the Wildlife Trusts' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZYcoeqzxVI short film]] based on ''Literature/TheWindInTheWillows'', Ratty is voiced by Creator/CatherineTate, and unlike Alison Steadman as Mole, she doesn't seem to be doing a voice that might be intended to sound male.
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38[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
39* ''Literature/TheAmbitionOfOdaNobuna'' is yet another Gender Flip take on Warring States period, but only ''partially''. For example, [[UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga the eponymous character]] and Imagawa Yoshimoto are female, while Saitou Dousan, Takenaka Hanbei, and Asai Nagamasa remain 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.]]
40* One chapter/episode of ''Manga/{{ARIA}}'' featured President Aria ending up in a world where the gender of everyone in the cast was flipped, but their names remained the same. Everybody also still behaves exactly the same as before. [[AllJustADream President Aria wakes up]] thinking that this alternate world may have been just a dream, [[OrWasItADream but then he sees his female otherworld self smiling at him through the mirror]]...
41* In the 2003 ''Anime/AstroBoy'' series, Photar is reimagined as a woman called Epsilon. ''Manga/{{Pluto}}'' splits the difference by keeping Epsilon male, but [[DudeLooksLikeALady giving him an extremely feminine appearance]].
42* ''Anime/BattleGirlsTimeParadox'' does this for the Sengoku period, the same as ''Koihime'', ''Strike Witches'' and ''Hyakka Ryouran''.
43* There's a two-volume ''Franchise/{{Beyblade}}'' SpinOff manga called ''Beyblade Battle: Holy Dragon Legend'', which stars female versions of the Bladebreakers from [[Anime/BakutenShootBeyblade the first anime]].
44* ''Manga/BlackCat'': In the original manga, Shiki was a female, but was made a male for the anime adaptation. Some American fans may not know this, due to the fact that the English version of the manga [[ShesAManInJapan made Shiki a male as well]].
45%%* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' has a [=gender flip=] omake at the end of volume 4. Poor, poor Rock.
46* ''Anime/BombermanBDamanBakugaiden'', loosely based on the ''VideoGame/{{Bomberman}}'' game series, included a female Akabon (Red Bomber) rather than the male Akabon from the videogames.
47* ''Manga/BungouStrayDogs'' has Kyoka Izumi and Kouyou Ozaki, two historical male writers, gender flipped as females in the series.
48%%* ''Anime/CodeGeass'':
49%%** Kallen Kouzuki is 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.
50%%---> '''Kallen''':''If only you had justice!''
51%%** In Picture Drama 07, Ashford apparently has a "Cross-dressing festival". Cue Suzaku in a [[SailorFuku sailor uniform]], Rival as an over-feminine maid, and Lelouch is [[AttractiveBentGender disturbingly]] [[GorgeousPeriodDress convincing]]... Of course, the fans love it. Re-enacted in the ''Lost Colors'' game - where Lelouch makes a surprisingly good bride, Suzaku has fun in a cheerleader outfit, and the male lead is dolled up in a qipao (with fake boobs and OdangoHair included)
52%%** In another Picture Drama, Lelouch has to crossdress ''yet again'', but is offset by the {{Fanservice}} of C.C and Kallen in slinky BellyDancer outfits.
53* [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits The Battle Lovers]] [[spoiler:and [[BrutishCharacterBrutishWeapon Maximum]] [[PrecursorHeroes Gorar]]]] from ''Anime/CuteHighEarthDefenseClubLove'' are basically [[MagicalGirlWarrior Magical Boy Warriors]] and [[TakeOverTheWorld Caerula Adamas]] and [[PolarOppositeTwins the VEPPer]] are basically [[DarkMagicalGirl Dark Magical Boys]].[[spoiler:..until their respective [[HeelFaceTurn Heel-Face Turns]], that is.]]
54* Unlike most of the Universe 6 [[MirrorUniverse counterparts]] in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', Caulifla and Kale serves as this to Goku and Broly respectively. Their relationship, however, is far friendly compared to the latter.
55* The manhwa ''Manga/EvyioneOceanFantasy'' is a gender-flipped version of Hans Christian Andersen's "Literature/TheLittleMermaid".
56* Since ''Manga/FairyTail'' has a parallel world where they manage to make use of this without any adaptions. The Hughes they fought in the parallel world was a guy, but the one who they later meet in their own world is female. A more traditional variant happens later on when the 13th constellation Orphiuchus the Serpent-Barer appears during one of the later arcs it is very clearly a female, despite the constellation being male.
57** For that matter, Aries of the ''ram'' constellation has always strangely been female.
58* In ''Literature/FromTheNewWorld'', [[spoiler:Maria and Mamoru's child]] is a boy in the original novel but a girl in the anime.
59* The 2001 anime adaptation of ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' accidentally did this to [[spoiler:Akito, the BigBad of the series]], as it almost OvertookTheManga and thus made several changes to the plot in order to give it a satisfying ending. Late in the manga, [[spoiler:Akito]] is revealed [[spoiler:to actually be female, having been RaisedAsTheOppositeGender due to her mother Ren's [[JealousParent petty jealousy]]]]. The 2001 anime is only based on the first seven volumes of the manga and was released before this revelation; as a result, [[spoiler:Akito is depicted as male, having a male voice and being shown with a completely flat chest in the final episode]].
60* ''Franchise/FullmetalAlchemist'':
61** The ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'' animated series made the homunculus Sloth a female. The [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist manga]] hadn't introduced Sloth, so the anime used a completely separate character [[spoiler:who was Trisha Elric's homunculus]].
62** [[{{Ghostapo}} The Thule Society's]] Dietlinde Eckhart, the BigBad of ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemistTheConquerorOfShamballa'', is based on and named after real life (and male) Thule Society member Dietrich Eckart.
63** In the manga and ''Brotherhood'', Envy is [[AmbiguousGender of unknown gender.]] In the 2003 anime, Envy is male [[spoiler:and the failed transmutation of Hohenheim's first son,]] despite looking just as androgynous (if not [[DudeLooksLikeALady more so]].)
64* ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'' is a Gender Flip 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.
65* A variant shows up in ''Literature/GargoyleOfTheYoshinagas''. When Gargoyle is transported to a mountain village, he meets a pair of siblings who resemble Futaba and Kazumi almost exactly. Since Futaba is a tomboy and Kazumi is very feminine, the gender flipped pair are more normal than their counterparts.
66* In-universe example in ''Literature/{{Gate}}''. Shandy Gaff Marea writes a report on the heroes, but for some reason turned Tuka into a man.
67* ''Manga/GetterRobo'':
68** In the OVA ''Armageddon'', TagAlongKid Genki from the original series is reimagined as a girl and given the new name Kei Kuruma (as she was adopted by Benkei Kuruma after losing her father and older sister). She's also a pilot and one of the main characters thanks to a TimeSkip.
69** ''New Getter Robo'' does this again, but this time, to Raikou Minamoto. And by the way, she predates ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'''s Mama Raikou!
70* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'': [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Kijima Matako and Imai Nobume]] are women, but their original historical counterparts Kijima Matabei and Imai Noburou respectively are male. This also applies to regular character Kyuubei, whose entire gimmick is that she was RaisedAsTheOppositeGender (ending up similar to the gender of her historical counterpart Juubei), and an arc that has her changing to ''match'' that counterpart genderbends everyone else along with her.
71* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' has the very strange and short-lived manga ''Gunnota no Onna'', which is about a female Char Aznable working as an OfficeLady while trying to hide her being a ''Gundam'' {{Otaku}}. While most of the cast is Gender Flipped Universal Century characters, a few remain intact, like Gunnota's best friend [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Flay]] and a ContinuityCameo by three familiar-looking [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing children]].
72* ''Anime/GundamBuildFighters'' has a {{Running|Gag}} MythologyGag where famous characters from across the franchise's history will appear in brief ContinuityCameo roles. [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Heero Yuy]] appears in Episode 14, but as a teenage girl rather than a dude.
73* ''Manga/{{Guyver}}: Out of Control'' changes the wearer of the Guyver II armor from a male inspector named Oswald A. Lisker to a female inspector named Valcuria.
74* In what can be considered a MemeticMutation outbreak, gender-flipped versions of the cast of ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'' took the internet by storm, with Kyonko at the center of it all. There are even ongoing fan projects to ''completely Gender Flip the light novels''.
75** Similar to the ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'' example above, it's become popular among fans to make male versions of songs from ''Manga/KOn'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2LhKmsy_M0 Here's]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9Ee04NFf74 a few]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I813drN6nI0 examples.]]
76* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'': Himaruya updated his blog [[http://himaruya.blog61.fc2.com/blog-entry-858.html#more with more gender flips]]. Including Taiwan, who goes from a GenkiGirl to a cute little boy [[RealMenWearPink with a flowery jacket pin.]]
77* The [[AlternateContinuity 2009 TV special]] of ''Manga/KimbaTheWhiteLion'' has Pauly Crakcer/Cocco being female rather than male in the original anime/manga.
78* The main cast of ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' are based off of Kaguya-hime and her five suitors in ''The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter''.[[note]]Well, four suitors. Abe no Miushi's counterpart only shows up in a single panel.[[/note]] All of the original suitors were male, but two of them in the manga (Kuramochi no Miko and Ishidzukuri no Miko) are female (Fujiwara and Iino respectively). Also, the ''Official Doujinshi'' SpinOff had a chapter where all the male characters were female, with Kaguya and Shirogane's DuelOfSeduction being reimagined as a PseudoRomanticFriendship.
79* ''Manga/KomiCantCommunicate'':
80** An in-universe example is when the play the students put on for the culture festival is initially about a cold-blooded princess (Komi) who falls in love with a delivery boy (Tadano). When Komi goes to comfort a distraught Manbagi and doesn't manage to get back in time for the next showing, the students change the play to one about a cold-blooded prince (Katai) who falls in love with a kitchen maid (a cross-dressing Tadano).
81** Out-universe, according to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6zvqdcZrwE this video interview]] the author says Komi was [[WhatCouldHaveBeen originally conceived as a guy]], but Oda changed it because of the editor requesting that the idea could work better if the main character was a girl. So, Komi is essentially a gender flip character.
82* ''Franchise/LupinIII'':
83** The second ''Manga/LupinIII'' manga gave Inspector Zenigata a partner called Melon Cop. [[Anime/LupinIIIPartII The 1977 anime]] featured an episode that loosely adapted Melon Cop's first appearance, but with the character changed to a female investigator from France named Melon Ganimard, a.k.a. Detective Melon.
84** The fourth episode of ''[[Anime/LupinIIIPart6 Part 6]]'' is a WholePlotReference to Creator/ErnestHemingway's ''The Killers'', but with the diner employee who spends the story chatting with the hitmen ([[spoiler:as well as the real server she [[BoundAndGagged tied up, gagged]] and replaced]]) being a woman instead of a man.
85* ''Manga/MagicalGirlOre'' flips the SuperGenderBender flavor of MagicalGirlWarrior: the cute girls in frills are the starting point, while the tough, masculine beefcakes are the transformations.
86* In ''Anime/MarvelDiskWarsTheAvengers'', Death Adder from the Serpent Society is a woman. Death Adder is traditionally depicted as a male in the ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' comics.
87* ''Manga/MazingerAngels'' is a gender-swapped version from the Mazinger universe: takes the worlds of ''Anime/MazingerZ'', ''Anime/GreatMazinger'' and ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'', replaces the male main characters and their manly HumongousMecha with the female leads and their {{Fem Bot}}s and you have this series.
88* The manga adaptation of ''VideoGame/MegaMan6'' flips Centaur Man into being [[SamusIsAGirl a disguised female Robot Master]].
89* ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' depicts the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl as a large breasted woman.
90* An in-universe example in ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'': Nozaki is prone to this when taking inspiration from people he knows - Mikoshiba, Wakamatsu, Hori and Seo all inspire gender-flipped characters. This can also be invoked by the manga itself as many of the male characters have personality traits more commonly associated with female characters, and vice versa. For instance, Mikorin is basically a blushing male {{Tsundere}}, while Kashima is a female HandsomeLech, ChickMagnet and [[TheCharmer Charmer]].
91* ''Anime/MyHime'' has a bit of this. Tate Yuuichi, the only [[KendoTeamCaptain masculine]] male protagonist in the show, is constantly frustrated by the fact that he's [[DistressedDude completely helpless]] compared to all the {{Magical Girl}}s despite his (rusty) kendo skills (which would make him a BadassNormal in other shows), and even ''gets told so to his face'' when he finally figures out the {{Masquerade}}.
92* The original ''VideoGame/NamuAmidaButsuUtena'' game changes Ashuku Nyorai into a female, but its anime adaptation changes her back into male, though a [[WholesomeCrossdresser crossdressing]] one.
93* ''Manga/OmamoriHimari'': In the manga, Sasa was an effeminate boy who often crossdressed. In the anime adaptation, Sasa became a girl.
94* ''Manga/OokuTheInnerChambers'' does this to Shogunate Japan from the reign of Iemitsu on, with three exceptions: the original Shogun Iemitsu, who died young and is replaced by his daughter, who takes on his name and reign, UsefulNotes/The47Ronin, who (mostly) stay all male, and [[spoiler: Shogun Ienari, becoming the first male shogun in decades.]]
95* ''Anime/OsomatsuSan'' likes to do this because only three of its usual main cast (Matsuyo, Totoko and Nyaa) are female. In the second cour of the first season and the first cour of the second, there were the "Girlymatsu-sans" who resemble the Sextuplets but are female, with a job, [[spoiler: and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking not related]]]]. By the second cour of the second season, new characters (often female) are assembled out of the Sextuplets to better suit the one-off stories' needs.
96* One episode of ''Literature/{{Oreimo}}'' sees Kirino's novel getting adapted into an anime series. The writers of the TV show propose changing the heroine into a boy in order to better entice young male viewers.
97* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': Kinda. In the games, Iris had only a female Fraxure and a female Haxorus, but in the anime, she has a male Axew instead. After Axew's final evolution into Haxorus and having taken the role of Iris's Ace Pokémon, this Haxorus is effectively a male version of his game counterpart.
98* ''Manga/PrincessPrincess'' had "Prince Prince". [[NoFourthWall Two girls from that story argued over the existence (or not) of differences resulting from the gender flip]].
99* The josei manga ''Manga/PrivatePrince'' is a complete gender flip of the WellExcuseMePrincess trope: here we have a ''prince'' and a commoner ''girl'' falling victim to BelligerentSexualTension.
100* ''Manga/SaintSeiya'':
101** Scorpio Milo was a man in the original manga and anime, but was changed into a woman in the 3D movie ''Anime/SaintSeiyaLegendOfSanctuary''.
102** In ''Anime/SaintSeiyaKnightsOfTheZodiac'', Andromeda Shun is flipped to Andromeda ''Shaun'', though she's got BoyishShortHair compared to Shun's long locks.
103* Koan's first appearance in the ''Manga/SailorMoon'' manga had her kill a little girl who saw her and her droids at night. In ''Anime/SailorMoonCrystal'', the unfortunate witness Koan murders in this scene [[MenAreTheExpendableGender was changed to an adult businessman]].
104* The second anime adaptation of Hector Malot's novel ''Literature/SansFamille'' does this to the main character.
105* The cast of ''Anime/SchoolRumble'' staged a gender-flipped version of "Literature/SleepingBeauty".
106* In ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'', which takes cues from Myth/ArthurianLegend, Merlin is a young looking woman that wears very revealing clothes.
107* In ''Anime/SevenMortalSins'', all the angel and devil characters like Lucifer and Michael are female.
108* A manga called ''[[http://myanimelist.net/manga/67315/Shiroi_Majo/ Shiroi Majo]]'' was released in 2014 which features Simo HÀyhÀ in the middle of the Winter War in 1939. Just one slight difference from reality: "Simo HÀyhÀ" is a teenage girl who looks [[{{Expy}} outrageously similar]] to [[Literature/SwordArtOnline Sinon.]]
109* ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato2199'' has Akira "[[InSeriesNickname Rei]]" Yamamoto, who was originally a male pilot with a relatively small role in the [[Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato original]], becoming a female pilot with a much [[AdaptationExpansion larger one]].
110* Downplayed in the ''Manga/{{Splatoon}}'' manga whenever adapting [[Franchise/{{Splatoon}} the games]]' storylines. While the genders of these characters can be [[CharacterCustomization customized]] in the games, promotional materials always have the protagonist roles filled by females, with each having a canoncial appearence. In contrast, the manga uses Goggles, Rider, and Gloves as {{Decomposite Character}}s of both Agent 3 and Agent 4, while the ''[[VideoGame/Splatoon2 Octo Expansion]]'' story arc features a male Agent 8.
111* ''Anime/StrikeWitches'', which features gender flipped versions of real life WWII {{Ace Pilot}}s.
112* ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}} Comic'' portrays Leo as a teenage boy, as it was written before Katsuhiro Harada had revealed that she's actually a {{Bifauxnen}} (with "Leo" being short for "Eleonora").
113* Hanako from ''Manga/ToiletBoundHanakoKun'' is a male version of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanako-san Hanako-san]], a well-known Japanese urban legend who's typically portrayed as a young girl.
114* In the 1987 anime ''Anime/TheThreeMusketeers'', Aramis is a woman who [[SweetPollyOliver disguised herself as a man to join the Musketeers]]. In the original novel, all the musketeers are men.
115* In ''Literature/UlyssesJeanneDArcAndTheAlchemistKnights'', Arthur de Richemont, Philip of Burgundy, La Hire and Charlotte de Valois are all gender flips of historical characters from UsefulNotes/TheHundredYearsWar. Considering it is from the same author as ''The Ambition of Oda Nobuna'' above, is no surprise.
116* Chapter 109 of ''Manga/UQHolder'' revealed that Karin is actually a female version of [[spoiler: Judas Iscariot]].
117* The cast of ''Manga/WanderingSon'' played gender-flipped versions of ''The Rose of Versailles'' and ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' in school plays.
118* ''Magazine/ShonenMagazine'' has a special chapter spun off of ''Manga/YamadaKunAndTheSevenWitches'', titled ''Yamada-san to Nananin no Majo''. All characters keep their surnames, with their given names femininized or masculinized. The cast consists of Orara (Urara), Ryuuko (Ryuu), Mikado (Miyabi), Torami (Toranosuke), Haruno (Haruma), Meme (Nene), Shiori (Ushio), Makoto (Mikoto). [[spoiler:Diagetically, though, none of this actually happens because it's fanfic manga by Meiko Otsuka.]]
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122* In the ''VideoGame/{{SEER}}'' cartoon, Dean is referred to as a male, whereas they were referred to as a female in the original game.
123* ''Animation/YamuchasKungFuAcademy'': Masa was female in the original ''Yamucha's'' shorts before being changed to an androgynous-looking male for the show.
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127* Creator/TerryNation's failed {{pilot}} for his Dalek TV series, "The Destroyers", had brother and sister team David and Sara Kingdom (a {{Transplant}} - she had been a ''Series/DoctorWho'' companion, although the show was not intended to take place in ''Doctor Who'' continuity), with David taking the ActionHero and protagonist role, and Sara spending most of the story captured and getting kidnapped by Daleks. When Creator/BigFinish adapted it as an audio drama for their ''The Lost Stories'' range, the adaptation mostly worked off the original script but switched the roles of David and Sara to make her the main character.
128* In the audio drama version of Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/TheMist'', the Hatlen character, named Mike in the original novella, is renamed Stella Hatlen. She shares her male book counterpart's fate of getting killed by spiders in the pharmacy.
129* Jun'ichirƍ Tanizaki's ''Naomi/A Fool's Love'' has received a [[https://st-noix.jp/brilliantprin/chijin/ BLCD adaptation]], which changes the heroine into a man but still retains the name ''Naomi'' (albeit changing it into kanji and giving him his husband's surname).
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133* Aither, in the original Greek mythology, is male. In the ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh OCG'', Aither is female. This makes sense, if they want a contrast between the ruler of Heaven and the ruler of the Underworld.
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137* In TheMultiverse of Franchise/TheDCU, Earth-11 is an AlternateUniverse where all the genders are flipped. Thus you have [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Superwoman]] and [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Superlad]], [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Batwoman]], Alexis Luthor, [[Franchise/WonderWoman Wonder Man]] (or Wonder Warrior, depending on your sources), and so on.
138* ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity'':
139** One of the major characters is Aquawoman, the ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} analog of Earth-11. Earth-11 is later explored in further detail in ''Teen Justice'', an iteration of the ComicBook/TeenTitans starring ComicBook/{{Robin}} (a female version of Damian Wayne named Talia Kane), Supergirl (a female version of [[Characters/SupermanJonathanSamuelKent Jon Kent]] named Laurel Lane), Troy (a male version of [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Donna Troy]] named Donald Troy), Aquagirl (a female version of Jackson Hyde named Jacqui Hyde), Klarienne the Witch-Girl (a female version of ComicBook/KlarionTheWitchBoy), a male version of ComicBook/{{Raven}}, and Kid Quick (a gender fluid version of Kid Flash named Jess Chambers).
140** Blitzen, ComicBook/TheFlash of Earth-10 from ''The Multiversity: Mastermen #1'', is female.
141* In ''ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal'', the Dark Multiverse's Earth -11, home of the Drowned (Bryce Wayne), is also a Gender Flip world, with the Aquaman analog being Aquawoman and [[ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} Selina Kyle]] being ''Sylvester'' Kyle.
142* The ''Toys/AmeComiGirls'' series takes place in such a world. Jesse Chambers is Franchise/TheFlash, Natasha Irons is ComicBook/{{Steel}}, Carrie Kelly is ComicBook/{{Robin}}, Jade Yifei is Earth's ComicBook/GreenLantern, and Duela Dent is a stand-in for ComicBook/TheJoker.
143* Similarly, some ''ComicBook/{{Exiles}}'' stories had the team visit worlds with gender-flipped versions of Marvel heroes. The most prominent example would be the team's version of Sunfire, who had the civilian identity of Mariko Yashida rather than Shiro Yoshida.
144* Sir Ystin (a cross-time counterpart of the original Shining Knight, Sir Justin) in Creator/GrantMorrison's ''[[ComicBook/SevenSoldiers Shining Knight]]'', turns out to actually be the female Ystina [[SweetPollyOliver in disguise as a boy]]. The ComicBook/New52 incarnation of Ystin in ''ComicBook/DemonKnights'' is non-binary.
145* Many male Creator/MarvelComics characters become females in the Manga/MarvelMangaverse:
146** ComicBook/ThePunisher is a [[RaceLift Japanese]] woman.
147** The Human Torch from the ComicBook/FantasticFour becomes a teenage girl, with her name changed from Johnny Storm to Jonatha Storm. She's also a rather blatant {{Expy}} of Asuka from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.
148** ComicBook/IronMan became Antoinette "Toni" Stark, though it was later revealed she's the younger sister of the "real" Tony Stark.
149** The ComicBook/XMen villain Pyro is changed from an Australian man to a British woman.
150* There's also one universe where ComicBook/IronMan is a woman named Natasha Stark, who ended up falling in love with and marrying Captain America. Think of that what you will.
151* The WhatIf story ''Catwoman: Guardian of Gotham'' is essentially a gender-flipped version of the Batman mythos, with ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} as a superhero and Batman as her nemesis. Additionally, gender-flipped versions of Alfred and Two-Face appear in supporting roles.
152* ComicBook/TheSpirit's sidekick Ebony White is a girl in the ''ComicBook/{{First Wave|DCComics}}'' universe. This is because writer Brian Azzarello felt Ebony was more fitting as a female name in the 21st century.
153* Edward Prendick becomes Ellen Prendick in Creator/IDWPublishing's adaptation of ''Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau''.
154* In the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Universe:
155** ComicBook/TheVision from ComicBook/TheAvengers is female.
156** The Mad Thinker was male in the main Franchise/MarvelUniverse; his counterpart, Rhona Burchill from ''ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour'', is female.
157** Death Adder of the Serpent Squad is a woman rather than a man.
158** The Ultimate versions of Swarm and Hurricane are also made female. Bonus points for Hurricane becoming [[RaceLift Asian as well]].
159** [[ComicBook/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]].
160** Stone from ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'' is a woman as well.
161** Hard-Drive, a member of Apocalypse's Dark Riders was similarly changed into a woman ([[TeamMemberInTheAdaptation and a member of the Brotherhood]]).
162* ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'':
163** The Thor Corps consists of various versions of [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] from across the Multiverse, including female wielders of Mjolnir like ComicBook/{{Storm|MarvelComics}}, ComicBook/{{Gamora}}, ComicBook/{{Dazzler}} and [[ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} Maria Hill]].
164** In the ''[[ComicBook/ShangChi Master of Kung Fu]]'' limited series, female versions of ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}} and ComicBook/MoonKnight are seen as entrants in the tournament to decide the new ruler of K'un-L'un.
165* ComicBook/Earth2:
166** ComicBook/RedTornado is a {{Gynoid}}.
167** The Earth 2 version of ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} is, well, Aquawoman.
168** Lee Travis, the Crimson Avenger pre-New 52, is now a female reporter and given a RaceLift.
169* ''ComicBook/MarvelAdventures'': In Marvel's all-ages 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.
170* Overlapping with CanonCharacterAllAlong, the comic book sequel to ''ComicBook/MegaManFullyCharged'' reveals that Mega Man's adoptive sister Suna is that continuity's version of Zero.
171* The proposed 2015 reboot of the Creator/ArchieComics hero ''The Web'' changed the character from an adult man named John Raymond to a 14-year-old [[RaceLift Korean-American]] schoolgirl named Jane Raymond.
172* ''ComicBook/Camelot3000'': Tristan 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.
173* ''ComicBook/MarvelFairyTales'': One issue of ''Spider-Man 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.)
174* ''ComicBook/SpiderVerse'':
175** ''Edge of Spider-Verse'' has the SP//dr mech, which is piloted by Peni Parker, a Japanese-American schoolgirl who is her universe's version of Peter Parker. The later ''Edge of ComicBook/SpiderGeddon'' mini-series also introduces a girl named Addy Brock, the pilot of the [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} VEN#m]] mech.
176** Also introduced in ''Spider-Verse'' is Penelope Parker, an elementary schooler who gained powers after being bitten by a radioactive spider during a field trip. Additionally, her teacher is a female version of Kraven the Hunter named Ms. Kraven.
177** Subsequent ''Spider-Verse'' stories, such as ''ComicBook/EdgeOfSpiderVerse2022'' introduce even more gender flips and {{Distaff Counterpart}}s, including Zarina Zahari (Spider-UK), Charlie Webber (Sun-Spider) and Hida Haruka (Sakura Spider). There's also the Disney Princess-inspired Princess Petra, a.k.a. Spinstress, whose love interest is a male ComicBook/MaryJaneWatson known as "Merry" James Watson, and whose enemy is a female version of Mysterio known as the Mysterious Empress. Even her FairyGodmother is "[[ComicBook/NormanOsborn Norma the Fairy Gob-Mother]]."
178* In the Animatter Universe (the MirrorUniverse the Crime Syndicate hails from) seen in the ''ComicBook/{{Justice League|Of America}}'' comics, one of the members of the Justice Underground (the heroic version of the LegionOfDoom) is Lady Sonar, a female version of the obscure ComicBook/GreenLantern villain Sonar.
179* Examples from ''Franchise/GIJoe'' properties:
180** ''ComicBook/GIJoeReloaded'', an UltimateUniverse attempt for the franchise published by Devil's Due, Gender Flipped "Doc" into a female TwoferTokenMinority to help avert TheSmurfettePrinciple. She became a CanonImmigrant of sorts when she was released as a convention figure, with her file card stating she was the male Doc's niece.
181** Dial-Tone was also changed into a female for ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeResolute'', the IDW G.I. Joe comics and the ExpandedUniverse of ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra''. Her background includes a brother named just like the male Dial-Tone, but this is more a MythologyGag than anything.
182* [[Franchise/TheDCU The DC Universe]] has several examples of male-to-female "recasting" via the AffirmativeActionLegacy method:
183** ComicBook/{{Zatanna}} (for her father, Zatara)
184** Jesse Quick (for her father, Johnny Quick, though Jesse has also taken on her mother's costumed identity as Liberty Belle.)
185** Beth Chapel, a protegeé of the original Dr. Mid-Nite, took on his role (with a slightly different spelling) as Dr. Midnight.
186** Dr. Fate's role was assumed by females (Linda Strauss and Inza Nelson) twice.
187** Yolanda Montez had a brief tenure as Wildcat before being killed by Eclipso.
188** Eclipso ''itself'' was recast as a female villain, after typically taking male hosts, during the run toward DC's Infinite Crisis event, taking Jean Loring as a host.
189** The new Judomaster is a woman, Sonia Sato.
190** During World War II, Danette Reilly took over the Firebrand identity from her brother Rod.
191** After retiring as ComicBook/{{Starman}}, Jack Knight passed his legacy and his Cosmic Rod onto the Star-Spangled Kid, Courtney Whitmore, who then changed her name to Stargirl.
192** Renee Montoya took up the mantle of ComicBook/TheQuestion.
193** ComicBook/{{Metamorpho}} has now been replaced by Element Woman. As she is also of Korean descent, she counts as a {{Twofer|TokenMinority}}.
194* Some versions of ComicBook/TheGreenHornet have used a female Kato:
195** The current Dynamite series features Mulan Kato, daughter of the original Kato.
196** The NOW Comics version had Mishi Kato (half-sister to the original), who eventually became Hornet's DistaffCounterpart, the Crimson Wasp.
197* ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'' briefly dabbled with this by introducing an alternate universe in which all sexes were reversed. At one point Midnighter recruits an entire army of reversed-sex superheroes, although they are instantly killed on the next page.
198* In ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAndHisAmazingFriends'', Aunt May had a female dog named Ms. Lion. Ms. Lion later appeared in ''ComicBook/PetAvengers'' as a male dog, [[GenderBlenderName but with the same name]].
199* There have been girl versions of Franchise/{{Batman}}'s sidekick, Robin:
200** In ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'', a young girl becomes the new Robin. News reports about Batman's new sidekick don't know any better, and continue to call his assistant "Boy Wonder".
201** [[ComicBook/Batgirl2009 Stephanie Brown]] became Robin when Tim Drake retired for a short time.
202** In the above-mentioned ''ComicBook/Earth2'' series, Robin was [[ComicBook/{{Huntress}} Helena Wayne]], Bruce's teenage daughter.
203* ComicBook/{{Taskmaster}} is a woman in ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} MAX''. RuleOfCool.
204* In ''Timestorm 2009-2099'', which features an alternate version of the ComicBook/Marvel2099 timeline, Bloodhawk of the X-Men 2099 is female.
205* Done InUniverse in ''ComicBook/AngelIDW''. There was a Hollywood movie (VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory) about The Fall, which had [[http://images.wikia.com/buffy/images/5/55/SheSpike.jpg Spike as a woman]] in a romance with Angel. [[note]]Technically it's a CompositeCharacter of Spike and Darla, but for all intents and purposes it's Spike as a woman. And yes, before you ask, fem-Spike gets pregnant.[[/note]] When they watched it, Angel was disgusted and insulted, while Spike thought it was hilarious.
206* Billy Lane from season 9 of ''ComicBook/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' is introduced as a normal teenage boy who takes on the Slayer role when his town is infested with zombified vampires in the aptly-named ''Billy the Vampire Slayer''. At the very end of the season, he gains a spiritual connection to the Slayer line (making him the very first male Slayer), but nothing ever comes of it and is only used to drive the main plot of the tenth season.
207* Due to the gender roles of TheThirties, ''ComicBook/SpiderManNoir'' has a male Federal Agent Jean De Wolfe standing in for the female Captain Jean [=DeWolff=] in mainstream continuity.
208* When Mick Anglo {{Exp|y}}ied the ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'' cast to make ''[[ComicBook/{{Miracleman}} Marvelman]]'', Captain Marvel became Marvelman, Captain Marvel Jr. became Kid Marvelman... and Mary Marvel became Young Marvelman.
209* In Creator/DCComics' ComicBook/New52 version of ''The Green Team'', Cecil Sunbeam, kid movie director, becomes Cecilia Sunbeam, starlet.
210* Dare, in the ComicBook/AmalgamUniverse title ''Assassins'', was an [[CompositeCharacter amalgam]] of Daredevil and Deathstroke, both male characters, but was female.
211* In the Bronze Age Superman story "The Turnabout Trap", Mister Mxyzptlk decided to make Superman's life miserable by gender-inverting the people in Superman's world so that his girlfriend Lois Lane doesn't exist, as she has been changed into Louis Lane. Superman realizes who is behind it as he sees among the pictures of Superwoman's enemies that Mxyzptlk didn't gender-invert himself (and made Superwoman and Clara Kent separate people, since Mxy wasn't aware Superman had a secret identity). At the end of the story, when Superman gets Mxyzptlk to undo his magic, he meets the real Louis Lane, who turns out to be Lois' cousin. This story likely served as the inspiration for Earth-11.
212* The ''Star Trek: Ongoing'' series by IDW, a continuation of the [[Film/StarTrek2009 film]] [[Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness series]], saw the publication of the first part of a two-part series, in which the entire crew of the ''Enterprise'' has been gender-swapped. There are a lot of women. [[spoiler: It gets hilarious in the end when they cross over into the normal universe and meet their counterparts.]]
213* In the ComicBook/New52 version of ''[[ComicBook/NewGods The Forever People]]'', Serifan has become Serafina. (She's also had a RaceLift, since she's [[RelatedInTheAdaptation now Vykin's sister]].)
214* In ''ComicBook/JustImagineStanLeeCreatingTheDCUniverse'':
215** ComicBook/TheFlash is a teenage girl named Mary Maxwell.
216** Lucinda Ramada is the first interpretation of the Parasite to be a woman, predating Alexandra Allston by two years.
217* Although ''ComicBook/Batman66'' is supposed to be based directly on the ''Series/Batman1966'' TV series, Warden Chrichton (played by white male actor David Lewis in the show) became an [[RaceLift African-American]] woman.
218* ''ComicBook/EarthOne'':
219** ''ComicBook/SupermanEarthOne'' [[spoiler: sees ComicBook/LexLuthor move from DecompositeCharacter to this with the Luthor husband dead and his wife Alexandra taking up the name "Lex"]].
220** Similarly, ''ComicBook/BatmanEarthOne'' takes a similar approach to [[spoiler: Two-Face, with Harvey Dent dying and his sister Jessica taking up the role.]]
221* In ''ComicBook/OdyC'', a space opera set in the aftermath of a male {{Gendercide}}, nearly all the male characters from ''Literature/TheOdyssey'' have been gender flipped. So have some of the female characters, because this is a sci-fi setting where "male" and "female" are not the only options.
222* ''ComicBook/SpiderGwen'':
223** The title character is a cross between this and a CompositeCharacter, being a version of Gwen Stacy who received the fateful radioactive spider bite that empowered Peter Parker in the mainline universe.
224** This version of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica is an [[RaceLift African-American]] woman named [[ComicBook/TheFalcon Samantha Wilson]].
225** In another Distaff/Composite mix, this universe's ComicBook/PeggyCarter is the one-eyed, [[OlderThanTheyLook long-lived]] director of ComicBook/{{SHIELD}}, effectively making her a female version of ComicBook/NickFury in all but name.
226** [[ComicBook/SpiderWoman Jessica Drew]] is a male agent named Jesse Drew.
227** The ComicBook/{{Venom}} symbiote was created by a scientist named Elsa Brock, a play on Venom's traditional alter ego of Eddie Brock.
228* ''ComicBook/{{Prez|1973}}'', the story of boy president Prez Rickard, was rebooted as ''ComicBook/{{Prez|2015}}'', the story of girl president Beth Ross. The original "Prez" has a supporting role as her Vice-President.
229* ''ComicBook/GothamAcademy: Second Semester'' reintroduces the Terrible Trio as Academy students. Armand Lydecker, the Fox, becomes Amanda Lydecker and Warren Lawford, the Shark, becomes Wendy Lawford. It's also mentioned that Amanda is descended from a 19th century Ambroos Lydecker who ''also'' called himself the Fox, so it's possible the original Trio are still in continuity as part of the AncientConspiracy.
230* Laufey from ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'' is an odd example. In the mythology, Loki is often referred to as "[[IAmXSonOfY Loki Laufeyson]]," the same way that Thor is called "Odinson;" ergo, Marvel created their own version of Laufrey as Loki's father. The thing is, in the original myths, Laufrey was actually Loki's ''mother,'' while his father was named FĂĄrbauti. Presumably the ''Thor'' writers just didn't realize that. (Incidentally, scholars aren't sure why Loki uses a matronymic; since the myths were originally written as poems, it's quite possibly just for {{alliterati|veName}}on.)
231* ''ComicBook/{{Superboy|1994}}'': Kon-El meets a number of alternate earth Superboys during the "Hyper-tension!" arc, one of whom is a female version of himself, with the same backstory, personality and fashion sense but cloned from Kara Zor-El instead of Kal-El because [[ComicBook/ElseworldsFinestSupergirlAndBatgirl her earth]]'s version of Kal was killed as an infant.
232* ''ComicBook/SuperSons'' Annual #1 reintroduces Streaky the Super-Cat. In this version Streaky is female (and apparently [[InterspeciesRomance in love with Krypto]]) although he was a tomcat on Earth-One and in the ''WesternAnimation/KryptoTheSuperdog'' cartoon.
233* ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' features a female {{Race Lift}}ed version of [[CanonImmigrant Jack (Jackie) McGee]] from ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk1977'' TV series.
234* At some point during one of the innumerable {{Soft Reboot}}s of ''ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUK'', Dennis's pet pig Rasher changed from a boar to a sow.
235* In the New 52 ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'' book, a female version of Silver Age GA villain the Red Dart (originally a man named Jonathan Mallory) was introduced as a member of Richard Dragon's Longbow Hunters. This version later appeared in ''Series/{{Arrow}}''.
236* ''ComicBook/DetectiveComicsRebirth'' reveals [[spoiler:Jeremiah Arkham has a daughter named Astrid, who's become a costumed villain targeting Batman. What puts her here? Her costumed identity is a combination of this, DecompositeCharacter, and SamusIsAGirl, as she takes up an identity held by an alternate version of [[Characters/BatmanJasonTodd Jason Todd]]: [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight the Arkham Knight]].]]
237* ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes2020'' changes R.J. Brande into a woman.
238* Milo Manara created a HotterAndSexier comic adaptation of ''Literature/GulliversTravels'' starring a woman that was titled ''Gullivera''.
239* In ''ComicBook/SupremePower'', Amphibian, who was a man in ''ComicBook/SquadronSupreme'', is female.
240* The Greek god of the west wind, Zephyrus, is apparently female in pre-Crisis ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'' comics, where Mary's magic word is explicitly said to refer to female mythological figures rather than the male ones who empower Billy and Freddy, but one of her powers is "the fleetness of Zephyrus".
241* Creator/IDWPublishing's ''ComicBook/{{Gobots}}'' miniseries depicts Vamp and Spay-C as male when the characters were female [=GoBot=]s in ''WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGobots''.
242* In Literature/TheWitches graphic novel the other child who is transformed into a mouse is a girl who is a lot more helpful to the protagonist, in the original book and it’s adaptations it was an overweight boy named Bruno.
243* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': After [[Creator/WilliamMoultonMarston Marston]] died and [[Creator/RobertKanigher Kanigher]] took over the book Kanigher quickly started replacing female supporting characters with male characters with no explanation, even though it was supposedly the same continuity. Characters replaced included Deisra of Venus, Queen Moonbeam and Queen Celerita, whom Kanigher replaced with Vertigo of Venus, King Moono and King Celerito.
244* The HumanPopsicle {{Expy}} of Literature/MikeHammer 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.
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247[[folder:Comic Strips]]
248* ''ComicStrip/MadamAndEve'' does it in [[http://www.madamandeve.co.za/cartoons/me000243.jpg this strip]] to commemorate National Women's Day.
249-->'''Madam:''' "What should we celebrate?"\
250'''Eve:''' "That we're not men?"
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252
253[[folder:Eastern European Animation]]
254* ''Animation/HungarianFolkTales'':
255** "The Simple Prince" is the male version of "Literature/{{Cinderella}}".
256** "The Witch" is a variant of "Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast", with a princess turned into an old hag and a young boy with two jealous older brothers.
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259[[folder:Fairy Tales]]
260* ''Literature/MollyWhuppie'' is classified among the tales of the type "The Small ''Boy'' Defeats the Ogre", like ''Literature/HopOMyThumb''.
261* In ''Literature/TheRoseTree'', the [[WickedStepmother stepchild]] is a girl, unlike most variants of this tale, such as ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/47junipertree.html The Juniper Tree]]''.
262* The Literature/{{Child Ballad|s}} ''Literature/TheLordOfLornAndTheFalseSteward'' features a hero in a tale normally told with a heroine, such as ''Literature/TheGooseGirl''.
263* ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/jacobs/english/fishring.html The Fish and the Ring]]'' features a poor girl [[SelfFulfillingProphecy destined]] to marry a rich boy, instead of the usual poor boy destined to marry a rich girl.
264* "Literature/{{Cinderella}}": Cindy and her sisters have brothers, Cinderlad or Askeladden, in folklore in such tales as ''Literature/ThePrincessOnTheGlassHill'', ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/hopomythumb/stories/bootstroll.html Boots and the Troll]]'', and ''Literature/TheSevenFoals''.
265* ''Literature/SleepingBeauty'' and ''Literature/SnowWhite'' are the best known specimens of the common sleeping princess, but the sleeping prince is also known, as in the frame story of ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/pentamerone/1introduction1911.html The Pentamerone]]''.
266* ''Literature/KateCrackernuts'' rescues a prince, in a reversal of the story of ''Literature/TheTwelveDancingPrincesses''.
267* The SheCleansUpNicely plot of ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'' and her sisters has a Gender Flip 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"]].''
268* Man/woman acquires a magical spouse, [[ForbiddenFruit violates a prohibition]], and must go on TheQuest to find the spouse again.
269** The fairy tales classified 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 Gender Flip.
270** A special instance is the Indian tale of Urvashi and Pururavas, which is the Quest for a Lost Bride; however, the prohibition he breaks is that at night -- with the aid of a lightning flash provided by her sisters who want her back -- she sees him naked, when seeing the husband at night is usually from ''The Search for the Lost Husband.''
271* In ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/stories/blackcow.html The Story of the Black Cow]]'', it is a stepson who is aided against his WickedStepmother by a magical cow; they run away together and the cow's magical aid lets him [[RagsToRoyalty make a royal match]].
272* ''Literature/AraTheHandsome'' has a man who's the FairestOfThemAll and a Queen who obsessively falls in love with him, starting a war just to have him.
273* ''Literature/CatherineAndHerFate'' is a Gender Flip of a popular ChivalricRomance tale, the Man Tested by Fate.
274* ''Literature/{{Prunella}}'' is a Gender Flip 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.
275* There are tales of both frog princes and frog princesses throughout Europe.
276* In ''Literature/TheDeathOfKoscheiTheDeathless'' or ''Marya Morevna'', newly weds are parted when the wife goes to war, instead of when the husband does, as in ''The Girl Without Hands'' and many other tales.
277* The princess who can not laugh -- as in ''Literature/TheGoldenGoose'' -- has a male equivalent in the Indian tale ''The Jasmine Prince,'' who can't force himself to laugh -- and whom a rajah holds captive, wishing to smell the jasmine scent of when he does laugh, spontaneously.
278* A Chinese version of Creator/TheBrothersGrimm's "Literature/OneEyeTwoEyesThreeEyes" exists where the three titular daughters are boys, and the wise woman is also a man.
279* Many fairy tales have a heroine, held captive or dead, returning to her husband and child for a few visits, as in ''Brother And Sister,'' ''Bushy Bride'', and ''The Witch in the Stone Boat''. An Italian tale (included by Creator/ItaloCalvino in his ''Italian Folktales''), ''The King's Son In The Henhouse'', has the hero returning to his wife and child.
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282[[folder:Fan Works]]
283* In ''Fanfic/ABetterWordThanHumanity'', a ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' fanfiction, the main villain is a gender-flipped version of an obscure character from [[TabletopGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesAndOtherStrangeness the obscure tabletop game, of all things.]]
284* ''Fanfic/AlwaysVisible'': A psychic nanny named Josephine Thueson in '''Always Visible''' turns into the male culturologist Jordan Thurlow, Delia's neighbor.
285* In ''Fanfic/AquamanMonster'', Topo, a male octopus in the comics, is female here.
286* ''Fanfic/TheDevilFruitHero'': Kirby, usually a male in their home universe, is shown as a girl in this story.
287* "The Girl Who Lived" is a popular idea for stories in ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fandom:
288** ''Fanfic/AButterflyEffect'' is one of many, replacing Harry James Potter with Harriet Lily Potter.
289** ''Fanfic/ALongJourneyHome'' has Jasmine Potter.
290** ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheMysteriousCurseOfTheGirlWhoLived'' 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 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.
291** ''Fanfic/TheRigelBlackChronicles'' draws heavily on elements of the ''Literature/SongOfTheLioness'', with Harriett Potter swapping identities with her cousin Arcturus Black so she can attend pureblood-only Hogwarts. Interestingly, Archie mostly doesn't have to hide his gender at the American Institute of Magic, he just calls himself "Harry" and claims that the records saying "Harriett" were a prank. (Until Hermione, who also came to AIM, does some digging...)
292** ''Fanfic/WeasleyGirl'' keeps Harry a boy but gives the Gender Flip treatment to Ron Weasley instead, turning him into Veronica "Ronnie" Weasley.
293** ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3894793/1/Harry-Potter-and-the-Distaff-Side Harry Potter and the Distaff Side]]'' drops the "real" Harry Potter into an alternate dimension where ''everyone'' has been gender-flipped, including himself.
294** ''Fanfic/HollyPotterAndTheWitchingWorld'' has the premise that 90% of all magical births are female -- meaning that most of the ''male'' characters (with a few notable exceptions) have been gender-flipped, but none of the ''female'' characters have.
295** Slytherin student Blaise Zabini was an accidental subject of this trope for many years. Prior to ''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'', his name was mentioned only once at the end of the sorting ceremony, with no other description given (though WordOfGod confirmed him as male in 2004 in response to a translator's inquiry). Because "Blaise" is a unisex name and there were few canon female Slytherins, many fanfic writers imagined the character as female. Once ''Half-Blood Prince'' confirmed canon Blaise as male, some writers made the character purposely female or transgender instead.
296* ''Fanfic/OnACrossAndArrow'' features the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Mane 6]] ending up in an alternate world where ''everyone'' is gender-flipped, and thus they encounter their male counterparts. This fic proved to be so popular that the six stallion versions of the Mane 6 became their [[{{Fanon}} go-to names for gender-flips]] within the fandom (Dusk Shine for Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Blitz for Rainbow Dash, Bubble Berry for Pinkie Pie, Butterscotch for Fluttershy, and Elusive for Rarity, while Applejack is the same regardless).
297* ''Fanfic/NerimaMagistraNellyMagi'' is ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' with ''every character'' gender-flipped.
298* ''Series/Numb3rs'': ''Connecting'' has the gender flipped version of Megan Reeves and Larry Fleinhardt as Kevin Reeves and Laurie Fleinhardt.
299* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20364043/chapters/48290605 Of Woman Born]]''
300** The premise of the story is rather than a man, [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Dio Brando]] was born a girl named Diana Brando.
301** When the story enters the 20th century, it's revealed that [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Joseph Joestar]] is now an American girl named Josephine Joestar. It's also mentioned that Caesar Zeppeli is a girl named Calpurnia as well.
302* ''Fanfic/OnceMoreWithFeeling'': In canon, Asuka called Shinji, Touji and Kensuke "The Three Stooges". In this story, Asuka, Hikari and Rei are called -very privately and very, very quietly by the abovementioned trio- "The Three Stoogettes".
303* ''Fanfic/TheOneILoveIs'': In this story Kaworu Nagisa -a character is male in canon- is a girl (and gets a rename: Kaoru Nagisa).
304* Special mention goes to ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'' story Let It Rain which is a Gender Re-Flip of Jeremy was a girl in the books just with a different name and aged up.
305* ''Fanfic/CanonInG'' does this to Creator/KeyVisualArts' [[TheVerse Seasonverse]], more specifically, ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}''.
306* This comes up frequently in ''[[Fanfic/TotalDramaIslandByGilbertAndSullivan Total Drama Island, by Gilbert and Sullivan]]''. For many of the verses pertaining to romantic relationships and complications thereof, the gender roles in the ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' incidents are reversed from the original roles in the operettas. This is especially prominent with respect to Cody's unsuccessful suit for Gwen's affections.
307* 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.
308* Pivix user Yuu Kurono has made a number of character sketches and comics around the premise of gender-flipping a portion of the cast of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' (specifically [[MessianicArchetype Madoka]], [[TroubledButCute Kyoko]], and [[TheWisePrince Mami]]... And a token shota Human!Charlotte <[[HilariousInHindsight long before Charlotte's Pre-Witch form was even conceived by the staff, let alone revealed]]>), along with [[{{Bishounen}} Humanoid!Kyubey]]. They can all be found on Danbooru (try the tags "kurono_yuu" and "genderswap" to get started), but due to the nature of the site, it would be better to offer a link to a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVqVvZijqF0 surprisingly good fandub of most of the comics on YouTube]]. The [[HoYay romantic undertones]] of [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl Homura/Madoka]] and [[BelligerentSexualTension Sayaka/Kyoko]] suddenly become very blatant.
309* The ''Film/StarTrek2009'' story ''Fanfic/WrittenInTheStars'' featured a gender-swapped Kirk; Jane Tiberia, both in the Prime reality and the Alternate reality. [[spoiler: She and Spock hook up]].
310* In ''Fanfic/MechanicalManiacs'', the ''VideoGame/MegaMan3'' [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Robot Masters]] are {{Author Avatar}}s. After the first series of epilogues, Anton, the Needleman of the team, departed. For series 2, Gauntlet (Shadow Man)'s sister Psycho Magnet joined to fill the Needleman role, so the character became "Needlegal". During Series 5, Musashi Razz became inactive as Sparkman, so Classi Cal took over the role and it became "Spark Chan". And those are just the members that are still around -- around the same time Needleman became Needlegal, Sarah also took up the then-vacant Hardman role as "Hard Chick", until Series 2 ended.
311* In the ''VideoGame/Persona4'' fanfiction, ''Fanfic/FacadePersona4'', the protagonist Yu Narukami is gender-swapped. Not much really changes, except for one thing: No-one knows Yu is female.
312* Some ''{{Franchise/Kirby}}'' fanfics tend to portray Galacta Knight as female, usually with the intent of having 'her' paired with Meta Knight.
313* In ''Fanfic/TheBridge'', the canonically male Mothra Leo is changed to the female Mothra Lea. The author pointed out that since the [[AKindOfOne Mothra]] species reproduces asexually, they should logically all be female.
314* In the pre-Crisis Earth-S fanfic ''Whatever Happened to Isis?'', Isis's LoveInterest Rick Mason is given an AdventureArchaeologist sister named Regina, who is transformed by the Orb of Ra into a {{Shapeshifter}}; a gender flip of Earth-1's ''Rex'' Mason aka ComicBook/{{Metamorpho}}.
315* Many fanfics for ''Film/TheHobbit'' replace Bilbo with a hobbit woman, often with the intent to pair her off with Thorin. Some keep Bilbo's backstory, while others give him a sister, and there are also those where Bilbo didn't want to go on the quest and his relative Lobelia went instead. Then there is ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/4661757/chapters/10636026 The Monstrous Company of Thorin Oakenshield]]'' whose title is rather unsubtly based on Pratchett's ''Literature/MonstrousRegiment''. Accordingly, [[spoiler:the whole company with the exception of Bilbo and Gandalf turn out to be female.]]
316* Happens ''way too often to keep track of'' in ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' fan works, usually due to either ViewerGenderConfusion or flat-out {{Shipping}}. In fact, it's ''so'' common, that there are meme templates all over the Internet (mostly Website/DeviantArt) of what gender the animatronic characters are in the user's AlternateUniverse.
317** Officially speaking, all versions of Bonnie the Bunny are [[GenderBlenderName male]]. That doesn't stop people from portraying them as female, ''especially'' when it comes to [[DudeLooksLikeALady Toy Bonnie]] (who is often referred to as "Bon Bon" when his gender is flipped).
318** The first game's version of Chica the Chicken is occasionally written as male since she doesn't really look feminine and isn't referred to by name until Custom Night.
319** Mangle has an AmbiguousGender due to conflicting evidence from the second game. They're supposed to be a remade version of Foxy the Pirate Fox, who is male, and the game's instructor calls Mangle a male. However, Mangle's casing is white with [[PinkIsFeminine pink highlights]] and they appear in a challenge called "Ladies Night", leaving the fandom [[BrokenBase split]] on the issue entirely. Whatever gender Mangle is, they've ''definitely'' gotten this treatment in fan works and are likely the reason the aforementioned "gender memes" even exist.
320** The Puppet gets this treatment as well, in not one, but ''two'' ways. Like Mangle, it has an AmbiguousGender (but is generally agreed to be male) and it also resembles a [[MonsterClown clown]]. However, [[spoiler: the animatronics in the series are canonically possessed by dead children, whose genders are also unknown save for the Puppet's, which was often believed to be male [[SamusIsAGirl before turning out to be female]].]]
321* Monkey D. Luffy in ''Fanfic/SolInvictus'' becomes this along with some minor characters. She mostly still acts like her male counterpart.
322* In ''Fanfic/SpiderManFindingHome'', Peter Parker- attending college post-''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome''- is shocked when one of his professors is a one-armed woman who introduces herself as Doctor Catherine Connors, quickly guessing that she is the counterpart of Doctor Curt Connors, [=AKA=] the Lizard.
323* In a fairly minor example, the ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' fic ''Fanfic/LeftBehind'' makes the Leviathan Rohvu male rather than female; however, this change can be easily explained as the crew of Moya just assuming that Rohvu was female and nobody corrected them because they either didn't care or weren't in a fit state to do so.
324* ''Fanfic/Earth27'':
325** Red Lantern Rankorr becomes a woman named Jane Moore.
326** Psycho-Pirate becomes a woman named Regina Hayden.
327** Blue Devil is changed from Daniel Cassidy to Danielle Cassidy.
328* In ''Fanfic/AmazingFantasy'', the Prowler is a woman when he's normally the very male Hobie Brown in the comics.
329* ''Fanfic/IAintADollThisAintADollhouse'': The premise is that the story is an adaptation of ''VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureEyesOfHeaven'' with [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Jonathan Joestar]] both [[AscendedExtra having a larger role in the narrative]] ''and'' as a woman named Johanna Joestar. Additionally, Jonathan's LoveInterest Erina Pendleton is now a man named Erin.
330** A comment from Diego Brando in chapter 6 reveals that Jonathan's AlternateSelf, [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Johnny Joestar]], is also a woman named Joni Joestar, though as of chapter 7 she hasn't made an appearance yet.
331* ''Fanfic/SoTheTrauma'' is based off ''Kim Possible: So The Drama'' but with one crucial change: Eric is now Erica. Shego saw Drakken's plans for Eric and tweaked them because she [[{{Gaydar}} guessed]] Kim would prefer a female love interest instead. She was right, and the story ends up changing into a ComingOutStory.
332* In ''Fanfic/RWBYScars'', most of Salem's underlings are changed into women.
333* In ''Fanfic/YokaiWatchRe'', Pinkipoo is female. In the games Pinkipoo are [[OneGenderRace only male]].
334* ''Fanfic/HarbouredAndEncompassed'' (Modern AU ''Hornblower'' fic) has a male to female Gender Flip. Midshipman (No First Name) Clayton becomes Hannah Clayton who is Archie's neighbour.
335* This gender flip ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13226631/1/Shigeko-Kageyama-AKA-Mob Shigeko Kageyama AKA Mob]]'' in which Mob of ''Webcomic/MobPsycho100'' is born female and the entire series is retold through this. A character exploration and deconstruction of the usual gender flipped tropes in the fandom.
336* [[http://www.toughpigs.com/tag/the-great-muppet-casting-call/ A series of articles]] on Franchise/TheMuppets fansite ''Tough Pigs'' imagine the Muppet movies being recast without the Muppets, with various gimmicks to keep it interesting. For ''Film/TheGreatMuppetCaper'', the gimmick is ''said'' to be that they're mostly improv comedians, but it [[http://www.toughpigs.com/cast-muppet-caper/ quickly becomes apparent]] that it's this. (Creator/TinaFey as Kermit; Creator/JohnCReilly as Piggy; Creator/AmyPoehler as Fozzie; and so on, including Creator/JohnCleese and Joan Sanderson as Joan Sanderson and John Cleese.)
337* In ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'', [[spoiler:Dodoria, male in the original ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', was turned into a girl for the abridged series. This was PlayedForLaughs to invoke UnsettlingGenderReveal. (And also because the 'canon' reveal of Frieza destroying Vegeta's home planet was already common knowledge in the abridged series.)]]
338* Played with in ''WebVideo/SailorMoonAbridged''. Sailor Jupiter is still a girl like in canon, but she's pre-op UsefulNotes/{{transgender}} rather than cis female.
339* In ''Webcomic/ATaleOfTwoRulers'', Zelda's daughter Rinku is the current {{reincarnation}} of Link.
340* Dwarfs in ''Fanfic/WickedWiles'' are not a OneGenderRace. They almost all use he/him pronouns and look (and sound) masculine, but some are considered female by human standards. Grumpy and Happy would be considered female.
341* In the ''Ever After High'' fic ''Fanfic/{{Queens}}'', Briar Light's three sisters are turned into brothers.
342* In the fanfic ''Fanfic/WhiteMagnoliaPinkChrysanthemum'', WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}} is born a man named Ping. He also still falls in love with Shang, [[AdaptationalSexuality whose feelings are mutual]].
343* In the ''Film/KingKong2005'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13613007/1/More-Than-a-Monster More Than a Monster]]'', Ann Darrow and Jack Driscoll are gender-flipped, and named Anthony Darrow and [[AdaptationNameChange Jacklyn Drissel]] (though "Jack Driscoll" is her pseudonym to [[SamusIsAGirl hide her gender]]).
344* While the WesternAnimation/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|2012}} were all boys in the source material, in ''Fanfic/HamatoClanKunoichi'' they are all girls. With differing chromosomes comes an AdaptationNameChange; Leonardo is now Artemisia ("Misa"), Donatello is now Sofonisba ("Sofie"), Raphael is Lavinia ("Vini") and Michelangelo is Elisabetta ("Ellie").
345* In ''Fanfic/AHerosWrath'', Kurogiri is instead Miss Kuro.
346* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' fanfics, this trope is very commonly applied to [[DudeLooksLikeALady Haku]].
347* ''Fanfic/WingsOfRebellion'' and its predecessor ''Unfiltered'' has the ''VideoGame/Persona5'' protagonist Akira Kurusu as a girl, who develops a relationship with Goro Akechi [[spoiler:that leaves him to defect from the Conspiracy and aid her and the Phantom Thieves]].
348* In the ''Fanfic/AlternateTailSeries'', the Edolas versions of Gajeel and Levy are female and male respectively, whereas they were the same gender as their Earthland counterparts in the anime.
349* The ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' fanfic series ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/1110879 you want the world/well what's it worth?]]'' is set in a world in which the majority of the bots are females (as well as humans involved in the American political scene).
350* In the ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget2015'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13828922/1/Take-Two-And-DON-T-Call-Me-in-the-Morning Take Two (And DON'T Call Me in the Morning!)]]'', [[WesternAnimation/GadgetAndTheGadgetinis Fidget and Digit]] are female (and more humanoid, to boot).
351* In ''Fanfic/RiseOfTheSaveUms'', Max and Alexa, the human equivalents of Foo (female) and Noodle (male), are male and female, respectively.
352* ''Fanfic/MyFathersSon'': In this adaptation Allyria Dayne is instead Aleric Dayne, so that with Ashara and Arthur off at King's Landing, they can have someone of age to rule there after [[spoiler: Their father's death]]. It also changes the political dynamics as Ynys Yronwood marries him, basically creating a union between the two strongest minor houses of Dorne.
353* ''Fanfic/Ben10Reincario'': [[spoiler: CanonImmigrant [[WesternAnimation/Ben102016 Lord Decibel]] is female in this story when she was male in the reboot show.]]
354* In bluebellwren's ''VideoGame/AceCombat'' fanfictions ''Fanfic/ThreeStrikes'' and ''Fanfic/TheDemonsSong'' both [[PlayerCharacter Trigger and Blaze]] are women.
355* ''Fanfic/TurtleKittens'':
356** While canon has all of the Turtles as boys, here Donatello and Michelangelo -- renamed "Donnatella" and "Mikelangela" -- are girls.
357** Instead of April O'Neil, she is replaced with "August O'Neil".
358* The ''Manga/SetonAcademyJoinThePack'' fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/41152626 Seton Academy Reversed]]'' has Ranka Okami go from a girl to the male Ranga, while Jin Mazama goes from a guy to the female Jun.
359* In the ''Fanfic/ThereWasOnceAnAvengerFromKrypton'' universe, Franchise/HarryPotter is a girl, having been raised as a boy to help better hide her from vengeful Death Eaters.
360* ''Fanfic/OneX'': Since it's established that each class is comprised of 20 students, and that [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia canonically]] there were only ''13'' girls between Class 1-A and 1-B, Nanocowie decided to change six of the boys into girls, picking Shoto Todoroki, Eijiro Kirishima, Fumikage Tokoyami, Rikido Sato, Hanta Sero, and Koji Koda, becoming Sho''ko'' Todoroki, Ei''ko'' Kirishima, Fu''tako'' Tokoyami, Rik''a'' Sato, Han''a'' Sero, and Ko''ko'' Koji.
361* ''[[https://www.deviantart.com/breakoutclub/gallery/84018432/beauty-within-the-beast-storybook Beauty Within the Beast]]'' is based on [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast the Disney version]] of the fairy tale, but takes place in the modern day and gender-flips several characters: the Belle counterpart is a young man named Billy, the Beast is a spoiled heiress named Isla, the Gaston counterpart is a blonde AlphaBitch named Gastelle, and Lumiere's counterpart is a woman by the name of Lenore.
362* ''Fanfic/InferiorOrSuperior'': Ravage is male in all iterations of ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' canon he appears in. The fic's version refers to Ravage as "her" upon being sent into battle.
363* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13092187/1/Survive-the-Night Survive the Night]]'': During the events of ''Film/HalloweenTheCurseOfMichaelMyers'', instead of having a son named Steven, Jamie Lloyd has a daughter [[DeadGuyJunior named after her sister, Rachel]].
364* ''Fanfic/AWolfInTheGarden'': In ''TabletopGme/Warhammer40000'', Ulthanesh is a hero from [[SpaceElf Aeldari]] mythology, and is referred to as being male. When Leman meets Ulthanesh amongst the other dead warriors in [[WarriorHeaven Khorne's realm]], she's female. Given that Eldar mythology is notably fragmented and self-contradicting even in canon, however, this isn't a particularly big leap.
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368* Mr. Tarantula/Legs from ''Literature/TheBadGuys'' becomes Ms. Tarantula/Webs in [[WesternAnimation/TheBadGuys2022 the movie]].
369* Ms. Li from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood'' is a female version of Mr. Li, a similar character from the original ''Under The Hood'' comic story.
370* ''WesternAnimation/TheHalloweenTree'', an animated film adapted from a book of the same title written by Ray Bradbury, changed the trick-or-treater dressed as a witch from a boy named Henry-Hank to a girl named Jenny.
371* The crocodile who wants to eat Captain Hook in ''Literature/PeterPan'' is female in the book. In the Disney adaptation, the crocodile ([[NamedByTheAdaptation known as Tick-Tock]]) is male.
372* The version of ComicBook/DoctorOctopus seen in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'' is a female scientist named Olivia "Liv" Octavius.
373* Terk (whose name is short for Terkina) from ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'' is (loosely) based on Terkoz from the original novels, who was male. Apparently, this was a result of Rosie O'Donnell's audition.
374* In ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'', Captain Smollett from ''Literature/TreasureIsland'' is a [[CatGirl feline lady alien]] named Amelia.
375* In ''Literature/TheTrueMeaningOfSmekday'' Pig the cat was a girl, in ''WesternAnimation/Home2015'' Pig is a boy cat, which is strange because real life calico cats are almost always female due to the genetics of coloring.
376* ''WesternAnimation/{{Uglydolls}}'':
377** The movie makes the character Wage female, with the character being male in the original toyline.
378** Wedgehead is another character turned female from the toyline. Unlike Wage, Wedgehead gets a design change, being turned [[AdaptationDyeJob bright yellow instead of the toyline's original dark blue.]]
379** Ice-Bat is also turned into a female character, a fact revealed from her bio on Hasbro's character website.
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382[[folder:Literature]]
383* ''Literature/{{Aniara}}'': The narrator is male in the poem, the 2018 film adaptation turned him into a lesbian woman.
384* ''Literature/AscendanceOfABookworm'': In-Universe, ''The Story of Fernestine'' is Elvira's retelling of Ferdinand's life, in which Ferdinand's counterpart is female among many changes that were made to keep the general public from knowing that the events are based on a real person's life.
385* Trivigaunte, in ''Literature/TheBookOfTheLongSun,'' is essentially a parody of fundamentalist Islam, but with the genders reversed.
386* ''[[Literature/ThePrincessTales Cinderellis And The GlassHill]]'', by Gail Carson Levine (and based on a Norwegian fairy tale called ''The Princess on the Glass Hill''), makes Cinderella a boy (Ellis, nicknamed 'Cinderellis'), with two older brothers and a princess as a love interest. (But note the comments about Cinderlad above.)
387* Terry Pratchett is fond of genderswapped gags in his ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' books.
388** In ''Literature/MovingPictures'', a film image of a woman is possessed by an EldritchAbomination, who transforms into a 50-foot monster. It immediately grabs up the Librarian (a male ape), and attempts to climb the 888-foot Tower of Art at Unseen University.
389** ''Literature/EqualRites'' has elements of ''Literature/AWizardOfEarthsea'', with Esk in Ged's role, and Granny Weatherwax as both the unnamed village witch and Ged's mentor Ogion.
390** And then there's the non-Discworld story ''Once and Future'' where a time traveller stuck in the past ends up re-enacting Myth/ArthurianLegend ... except for that the king who pulls the sword from the stone happens to be a woman.
391* 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.)
392* Literature/HonorHarrington, in her role as ''Literature/HoratioHornblower'' JustForFun/InSpace!
393* 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.
394* ''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.
395* 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.
396* Marianne Wiggins' ''John Dollar,'' which reworks ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies'' with a group of marooned girls.
397* 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.
398* ''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.
399* ''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.
400* ''Literature/MusketeerSpace'' 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.
401* 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.
402* ''Literature/ScavengeTheStars'': The main character Amaya Chandra is a female adaptation of the male Edmond Dantes from ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo''. This becomes downplayed later, as she's [[spoiler:eventually revealed to be a DecompositeCharacter with all of the more ruthless chessmastery of Edmond going to her father and mentor, Boon]].
403* The protagonist of ''Literature/SteelBeach'' by Creator/JohnVarley actually has an EasySexChange, but ''[[InvokedTrope invokes]]'' this trope. The protagonist calls him/herself Hildy Johnson as both a male and female. Hildy is also a reporter in the book, and chose the name.
404* In Literature/TimeScout, one of the theories floating around is that the Ripper Watch Team might be looking for ''Jill'' the Ripper.
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407[[folder:Music]]
408* The Music/{{Vocaloid}} song in the Music/EvilliousChronicles, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV99NZmurVA Lunacy of Duke Venomania]]'' by Music/{{Mothy}}, features the eponymous duke, played by Gakupo, converting various women into his sex slaves. Then comes ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL1_EDMJZYM The Madness of Miss Venomania]]'' from fans, which changes the protagonist to a girl, played by Luka, but subverts the trope by [[LesYay keeping all of her victims female]] (though there are heterosexual female versions if you look around).
409* The famous duet "Baby, It's Cold Outside" is usually sung with a man as the "Wolf" and a woman as the "Mouse". Exceptions:
410** 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.
411** Again flipped in a version with Creator/SelmaBlair and [[Series/TheOfficeUS Rainn Wilson]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hEJQbEYjRg Oh My!]]
412** 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".
413** 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".
414** The She & Him version has Creator/ZooeyDeschanel singing the "Wolf" part and M. Ward doing the "Mouse" part.
415* Music/DuranDuran has the video for "Girl Panic", that portrays the band as sexy girls, all of them [[CreatorCameo famous top-models]] getting in the skin of every band member.
416* As a kind of {{homage}} to Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love" video, Music/ShaniaTwain's "Man! I Feel like a Woman" video is the gender-flip version of the former.
417* Music/EltonJohn once said Robert Palmer's video for "Addicted to Love" was a gender-flip of Elton's song "Bennie and the Jets", as Bennie was a girl singer and the Jets were her all-male, homogenous-looking backing band.
418* In Music/TheMechanisms concept album "The Bifrost Incident", the traditionally male Loki and Odin are women, although [[CrossdressingVoices Loki is still sung by a man]].
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422* The ''[[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Rockman Ability]]'' pachislot game reimagines Dr. Light as a beautiful young woman instead of an old man. Downplayed in her character bio, which states she's the daughter of the original Dr. Light.
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426* The god Palandine is normally male and the husband of Mishakal in the ''TabletopGame/{{Dragonlance}}'' setting, but in ''Podcast/TheFallenGods'' Palandine is female and Mishakal's wife.
427* In the original continuity of the ''Podcast/RedPandaAdventures'', a one-off mention is made of the Red Panda having had a teenage sidekick. In the main continuity episode "The World Next Door", we learn that said sidekick, the Flying Squirrel, was a boy named Kent Baxter. This is quite a shock to the main universe's Flying Squirrel, adult woman Kit Baxter, especially, as she later reveals, because Kent was the name her parents would have given her had she been born a boy. A Sequel Episode, "A Dish Best Served Cold", also makes reference to the Necromator, who the Red Panda assumes was a male version of one of his female supervillains, Professor Zombie.
428* In ''Podcast/{{Wolverine}}: The Lost Trail'', the Master Mold A.I. is female rather than male.
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432* Unlike other women's promotions at the time, which usually didn't feature male talent, Mildred Burke's WWWA reversed the standard gender dynamics of fourfive male title belts and 12 female titles, having five women's divisions and two male divisions, albeit, midget male divisions.
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436* In ''Series/FraggleRockBackToTheRock'', not only is Doc female, but there are references to her [[TheGhost unseen]] landlady, Mrs Shimmelfinny; the original Doc's unseen neighbour was ''Ned'' Shimmelfinny. Henchy, sidekick to the World's Oldest Fraggle is also female.
437* In ''Film/TheMuppetsWizardOfOz'', Rizzo the Rat takes the role of the Queen of the Field Mice, which has been [[CompositeCharacter conflated]] with the Mayor of Munchkinland.
438* ConversationalTroping in ''Series/TheMuppets2015'' episode "Got Silk?", when Uncle Deadly says his theatre group is performing a gender flipped ''Film/{{Clueless}}'' (although in the performance we see, Deadly is playing Cher in drag because the leading lady cancelled - in a podcast, Deadly's puppeteer, Matt Vogel, suggested that it was actually an all [[CrossCastRole Cross-Cast Roles]] production). Apparently it works better than their previous play; a gender flipped ''Film/KnockedUp''.
439* ''Series/SesameStreet'': In Episode 3408 when Celina's dance class acted out the song and story of the "Alligator King" cartoon, the seven alligator sons were changed to unisex "alligator children" given that some of the kids were female. The seventh and youngest child in particular was played by the female Gabi.
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443* ''TabletopGame/HeroRealms'' does this a bit literally. Character Packs are custom starting decks based on traditional Fantasy RPG classes. Each pack comes with Character Cards and Health Trackers, with each having one side featuring a male version of the Character, and on the other side with a female version. Other than aesthetics, the gameplay is not affected.
444* ''TabletopGame/InNomine'': A few characters derived from scripture or the public domain have their genders flipped to provide more gender diversity in what would otherwise be a heavily male-dominated lineup, which is explained in-universe through gender being a very optional and malleable concept for Celestials. For instance, while Gabriel is male when his gender is mentioned in the scriptures and Edgar Allan Poe's poem "Israfel" describes the titular angel as male, both are women in the game.
445* ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'', in its fifth edition version, replaces a few originally male Darklords with similar female characters: Vlad Drakov became Vladeska, Victor Mordenheim became Viktra, and Pieter van Riese became Pietra. Vladeska is less evil than Vlad was (being a militaristic, power-hungry tyrant, but at least not a bigot or a rapist), Pietra is worse than Pieter (going from an obsessed explorer who murdered his own crew to a pirate with a long career of atrocities), and Viktra more or less stayed at her predecessor's moral level (i.e. heavily in the red) but as a full Darklord while Victor's status as such was more ambiguous.
446* The ''ComicBook/{{Grandville}}'' RPG gives Chance Lucas, the CaptainErsatz of ComicBook/LuckyLuke from ''Grandville: Noel'', a mare named Jolie as his detective partner; a gender flipped (and {{Anthropomorphic Shift}}ed) Jolly Jumper.
447* ''TabletopGame/ResArcana'': The ''Alternative Mage Packs'' contain gender-flipped re-imaginings of the [[GenderEqualEnsemble gender-equal ensembles of mages]].
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451* In the Broadway version of ''Theatre/TheLionKing'', Julie Taymor changed Rafiki's gender from male to female to combat TheSmurfettePrinciple. Since it didn't change Rafiki's role at all, it works quite well.
452* There was a stage play of "Literature/SleepingBeauty" where the beauty was played by a guy and it was the girl who administered the [[TrueLovesKiss Wake-Up Kiss]].
453* Neil Simon wrote a version of ''Theatre/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.
454* ''Oh My Godmother'' is the classic Cinderella story retold in modern-day San Francisco in which "Cinderella" is now a love-struck, gay, teenage boy.
455* There's also an official female-cast version of ''Theatre/TwelveAngryMen'' (making it ''Twelve Angry Women''). Since women now serve on American juries, modern productions are often staged as ''Twelve Angry Jurors'' where the director can cast whichever roles he or she feels like as women.
456* ''Errand Into The Maze'' by Martha Graham is a Gender Flip of the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur]], expressing in dance. The creature may or may not [[MindScrew be entirely in her mind, representing Fear]].
457* Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/KingLear'' has had incarnations that explore this technique:
458** In ''Lear'' (Maleczech, 1990), Lear was a queen and the conflict on division of the realm was among three sons, rather than three daughters. All of the dialog was left as found (save for pronouns).
459** ''Queen Lere'' was a feminist production that had women in all the roles, updated language, and things turned out much less tragically. [[WriterOnBoard Little bit of "agenda"]], in that one.
460** Creator/AkiraKurosawa's ''Film/{{Ran}}'' has his Lear analogue divide his realm between three sons. Except one of them is basically married to Lady Macbeth and it ends really really badly for everyone.
461** Thirteenth Floor Theatre's 2017 production changed Kent to a woman - who then [[SweetPollyOliver disguises herself as a man]]. The Fool also became a woman - strongly implied to be [[TheLostLenore the ghost of Lear's dead wife]]. Goneril's servant Oswald became female too with the resulting fight between Oswald and Kent becoming a DesignatedGirlFight.
462* ''Theatre/JasperInDeadland'':
463** The River Lethe is named after Mr Lethe, even though Lethe was a goddess in Greek Mythology.
464** Some productions cast Jasper as a female role.
465* There was a production of ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'' in which Caesar [[CrosscastRole was played by a woman, but still referred to by the male pronoun]]. Calpurnia, however, became Calpurnius, and ''he'' got ''his'' pronouns changed. (The production had other changes as well: it thought it was set in a dance club TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture.)
466* Matthew Bourne's "Theatre/SwanLake" took the ballet and turned all the swans into male characters.
467* Gender flipping is not terribly uncommon in modern productions of Shakespeare. Since all of the women's roles in Shakespeare are actually roles for boys in drag, having women onstage at all is nontraditional casting; it doesn't take much of a leap to consider putting women in other roles as well. Also, especially in the case of student or amateur productions, there may be a surplus of female performers and a shortage of good male ones if you don't do this.
468** The practice is [[OlderThanTheyThink older than you'd think]]. Sarah Bernhardt, the most celebrated actress of her day, played Theatre/{{Hamlet}} on the stage in 1899. Curiously, part of a performance was filmed as ''Le Duel de Hamlet'', making the "first movie Hamlet" a woman!
469** Sara Bernhardt is by no means the only female Hamlet in movies -- Hamlet (1921) had Asta Nielsen as a female Hamlet who had been reared as a boy, and was much more interested in Horatio than Ophelia.
470** Amateur Shakespeare productions often do this simply to allow more casting balance, with no change to the plot whatsoever. Puck in ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'', for instance, has no real need to be male or female, so the role can easily be cast for the best performer of either sex. Likewise, many minor characters are presumed to be male, but could just as easily be female.
471*** This is nearly always done to Titania's fairy servants. They were originally played by boys, ''as'' boys. Bottom even calls them things like "Monsieur Mustardseed" and "Master Cobweb". The more modern female association with fairies, coupled with the fact that a ''lot'' more girls will usually audition for any given production of ''Midsummer'', leads to the gender flip.
472*** Numerous 21st century productions of ''Midsummer'' have introduced same-sex relationships between the lovers by turning Lysander or Helena (or both) into Lysandra and/or Helenus. A female Lysander can add an interesting dimension to the "forbidden love" aspect of her relationship with Hermia and lend a homophobic explanation to Egeus' opposition to this relationship, while a male Helena can turn Demetrius' character arc into a ComingOutStory and lend credence to the theory that he was in denial of his true feelings at the beginning of the story (because, in this case, he was closeted).
473** ''Theatre/TheTempest'' also sees a few roles often get flipped. [[GenderBlenderName Ariel]] becoming female is an obvious one, but Stephano or Trinculo also may become a female [[UnfortunateImplications to make the subtext between the two more palatable]] and Prospero can sometimes become a woman named Prospera as well; this last one has the greatest impact as Prospero and his daughter Miranda are two of the main characters and the relationship between them changes when it's a mother and daughter rather than a father and daughter. Other roles that have gotten get this treatment include Antonio (thus becoming Antonia), Adrian, Sebastian, and Francisco.
474** National Theatre's 2017 production of ''Theatre/TwelfthNight'' cast Maldonado as a female, named Maldonada in the play, which gave the scenes where she believed that Olivia desired her an added twist. Fabio was also cast as a female, although in her case it didn't change the role much, apart from allowing her to dress as Rey from ''Film/StarWarsTheForceAwakens'' for the entire performance.
475* In some productions of ''Theatre/{{Oliver}}'', the Artful Dodger is played by a girl, and actually referenced as such in the play (with the additional few lines of "Dodger's a girl?" "So what if I am? I could lick you any day!"). It doesn't have much bearing on the plot whether Dodger is played by a boy or girl, though.
476* At one Literature/{{Discworld}} Convention, a group did a dramatisation of the scene in ''Literature/InterestingTimes'' where the Silver Horde are hanging around waiting for the battle, with a female Truckle the Uncivil. During the discussion of the afterlife, she delivered the line about a paradise full of young women as if she'd ''just'' spotted the flaw, and her response to Cohen's "And that's your reward, is it?" was "Dunno. Maybe it's me punishment". (In the original it's "Maybe it's ''their'' punishment".)
477* Maureen's partner Joanne Jefferson in ''Theatre/{{Rent}}'' is a Gender Flipped version of Musetta's lover Alcindoro in ''Theatre/LaBoheme''.
478* A Contemporary Theatre's 2012 production of ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' gender-flipped the Ghost of Christmas Present, for only the third time in the show's history (in the mid-1980s the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, as a nod to the areas Scandinavian heritage, Christmas Present was a St. Lucia expy rather than Father Christmas/Santa Claus; in 1990, an actress played all three ghosts).
479* Creator/CirqueDuSoleil's ''Amaluna'' is a loose adaptation of Shakespeare's ''Theatre/TheTempest'' with a 70% female cast; for example, the main character, Prospero, becomes Prospera, the queen of the titular island.
480* Samuel Beckett was adamant that this not be done to ''Theatre/WaitingForGodot''. When he took legal action against an all-female Dutch theater company and lost, he declared a ban on ''all productions of his plays'' in The Netherlands. When asked by the press why he felt so strongly about this matter, Beckett replies "Because women don't have prostates," referring to one of the characters in the play's prostate disease. Female casts have still gone ahead, but not without having to wrangle with his estate.
481* Productions of ''Literature/TheHobbit,'' especially for children, often add an elf ''queen'' rather than the king from the book--which makes sense, since the book literally has no female characters whatsoever. Tolkien canon does not specify anything about Thranduil's wife other than she must exist, because Thranduil has a son, Legolas; however, Thranduil is a bit character in ''Literature/TheHobbit'' and the story will not lose anything if he's replaced by a queen. Other productions have had Gollum, a relatively genderless role even in the book, played by women.
482* In ''Theatre/ShrekTheMusical'', the Three Blind Mice are females, while in the films they're males.
483* In the original novel ''Literature/LesMiserables'', the overseer who fires Fantine is a woman, Mme. Victurnien, who kicks her out simply for being an unwed mother. In [[Theatre/LesMiserables the stage show]], the unnamed Foreman is male, and is given the additional motive of Fantine turning down his romantic advances.
484* Music/GioachinoRossini's Cinderella-based opera, ''Theatre/LaCenerentola'' replaces the stepmother with a stepfather, Don Magnifico, and the fairy godmother with a male mortal philosopher, Alidoro, making this considerably OlderThanRadio.
485* The musical adaptation of ''Film/TheToxicAvenger'' makes Mayor Belgoody a woman.
486* A short-lived 2011 revised production of ''Theatre/OnAClearDayYouCanSeeForever'' turned Daisy Gamble into David Gamble.
487* In the stage musical of ''Film/{{Nativity}}'', the Critic, played by Alan Carr in the film, is Jo Brand.
488* TheMusical of ''Film/MrsDoubtfire'' gender-flips Jonathan Lundy into Janet Lundy.
489* ''Theatre/{{Cats}}'': Rumpelteazer is implied to be male in the original ''Literature/OldPossumsBookOfPracticalCats'' poems but is female in the ''Cats'' play.
490* The ''Manga/CutieHoney'' stage play ''Cute Honey: Emotional'' makes Professor Kisaragi into a woman.
491* A 2020 Scottish adaptation of ''Theatre/MrPuntilaAndHisManMatti'', in addition to relocating it to Argyll, becomes ''Mrs Puntila and her Man Matti'', with the title character being played by Elaine C. Smith.
492* In the National Theatre's 2014 production of ''Theatre/{{Treasure Island|2014}}'', protagonist Jim Hawkins is a girl (her full name is mentioned at one point to be Jemima). Dr Livesey is also female, as are several of the sailors and pirates.
493* In Jake Heggie's opera adaptation of ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'', the GuardianAngel Clarence Oddbody is recast as Clara.
494* Productions of ''Theatre/TheDrowsyChaperone'' needing more female roles will commonly flip the Man in Chair (becoming "Woman in Chair") or at least one of the pastry chef mobsters.
495* ''Theatre/PrinceKaguya'' changes Kaguya from a girl to a boy who is RaisedAsTheOppositeGender.
496* The 2018 West End revival of ''Theatre/CompanySondheim'' changed Robert into Bobbie, Amy into Jamie and Robert's girlfriends April, Marta and Kathy into Andy, PJ and Theo.
497* David Greig's stage play of ''Literature/{{Solaris}}'' makes Dr. Sartorius female and gender-swaps Kris Kelvin and his LostLenore Rheya, renaming the latter Ray.
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501* A few ''Franchise/CareBears'' have had their genders flipped over the decades in both the toyline and the different animated shows, namely Funshine Bear (female to male) and Secret Bear (male to female). Even some of the cousins are not immune to this trope: Lotsa Heart Elephant (went from being a male to a female), Proud Heart Cat is generally female (but at one point was referred to as a male), and Swift Heart Rabbit switches from being male to female.
502* Plum Pudding in the original ''WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake'' line was originally a boy, "he" was later reintroduced to the line as a "she".
503* One infamous figurine released early in G1 of ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' has Moondancer and Glory in [[OfficialCouple wedding attire]]. They're both female in canon but for the figurine Glory was male. [[FanonDiscontinuity Fans ignore the gender flip]].
504* Japanese figure maker Kotobukiya have turned famous horror movie characters like [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]], [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]], [[Film/ChildsPlay Chucky]] and Film/EdwardScissorhands into cute and sexy women.
505* ''Toys/MonsterHigh'' is a Creator/{{Mattel}} toyline of dolls who are children of the classic monsters, generally with the gender flipped as is directed toward girls (so, logically, most characters will be female); including Draculaura (Dracula), Frankie Stein (Frankenstein), Clawdeen (the Wolf Man), Cleo (the Mummy) and of course the opposite case with Deuce Gorgon (Medusa).
506* ''Toys/EverAfterHigh'' depicts the Cheshire Cat as Kitty Cheshire's mother, when the character was male in the novel by Lewis Carroll.
507* ''"WebAnimation/TheTransformersPowerOfThePrimes'' toyline 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, manga from Japanese releases of the concurrent toylines and her appearances in ''[[WesternAnimation/TransformersRescueBotsAcademy Rescue Bots Academy]]''.
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511* Technically all games where you can pick the gender of your PlayerCharacter feature gender flipped versions of the protagonist. No matter if you play as male or female, your character is given the same backstory, same quests, and same character arc. A good example is Creator/BioWare's ''Franchise/MassEffect'' trilogy, where Shepard is given the same last name, familial backstory, and pre-service record regardless of gender, so the male and female versions of Shepard are essentially Gender Flipped alternate versions of each other. Some games, however, like ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', avert this by making the male and female versions of the PlayerCharacter distinct. In the case of ''Fallout 4'', the male and female versions of the Sole Survivor are husband and wife, the former a retired military veteran, and the latter an out-of-practice lawyer and stay-at-home mother. [[spoiler:The PC of the chosen gender is the only one to survive the prologue and a main part of the character's motivation through the story is finding the one who kidnapped their son and killed their spouse.]]
512* ''VideoGame/SuperPrincessPeach'' gave Peach a starring role where she saves the Franchise/SuperMarioBros. from Bowser for a change, instead of the brothers setting out to rescue her as in so many previous Mario games. Also, the subplot of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' appears to be a gender-flipped version of ''Literature/TheLittlePrince''.
513* Dr. Julie Langford from ''VideoGame/BioShock1'' was originally a man named Holden Langford, but Ken Levine made her female to add more female characters to the game. The art subtitles still mistakenly read "Holden Langford" for every sign in her lab.
514* ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons'': ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonBackToNature For Girls'' ([=PlayStation=]), ''More Friends of Mineral Town'' (Game Boy Advance), ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife Harvest Moon Another Wonderful Life]]'' ([=GameCube=]), and ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonDS Cute''. All four had official localizations, though the first one was not translated until the PSP compilation ''Boy and Girl''. Future games allow you to choose your gender at the start.
515* The three ''VisualNovel/TokimekiMemorialGirlsSide'' games. The Platform/NintendoDS ports of the first two ''Girl's Side'' games also have complete fan translations.
516* ''VideoGame/WarriorsOrochi'' features a female [[Literature/JourneyToTheWest Tang Sanzang]] (Sanzou Houshi). This is likely a nod to the old Koei game ''VideoGame/SaiyukiJourneyWest'', where you can choose Sanzang's gender.
517* ''VideoGame/NamuAmidaButsuUtena'' where Ashuku Nyorai/AkáčŁobhya is inexplicably female ([[CrossdressingVoices though still]] [[Creator/YuusukeKobayashi voiced by a guy]]). She gets flipped again in the anime where she's a crossdressing guy instead.
518** While the actual Mahāmayƫrī is occasionally depicted as male, she is officially a female deity in Buddhist mythos. In the game, King Konjikikujaku is a dashing young man.
519* In ''VideoGame/Onimusha2SamuraisDestiny'', WordOfGod states that the Yagyu Jubei who is the main character is the grandfather of ''the'' UsefulNotes/YagyuJubei. ...then ''VideoGame/OnimushaDawnOfDreams'' comes out and there's a Jubei (it's a title in the family) and she's his granddaughter... Any sign of a [[Anime/JubeiChan lovely eyepatch?]]
520* ''VideoGame/{{Onmyoji|2016}}'' features a male Tamamo-no-Mae.
521* ''VideoGame/PaperChase'': The English professor goes from male in the BASIC version to female in the Inform version.
522* Due to the personalized nature of Personas in the ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'' series, some of the personal Personas of the playable characters have this happen to them.
523** In [[VideoGame/Persona1 the first game]], [[ClassClown Hidehiko Uesugi's]] Initial Persona, Nemhain, is an [[Myth/CelticMythology Irish war goddess]], but in the [[AudioAdaptation CD Drama]], Nemhain is given a male voice.
524** In the ''Innocent Sin'' half of ''VideoGame/Persona2'', [[TokenMinority Lisa Silverman's]] Initial Persona is [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Eros]]. In Greek myth, two male deities share that name, one being a love god and the other the primordial deity of procreation, but in this game, she's female.
525** The ''VideoGame/Persona3'' VideogameRemake for the [[Platform/PlayStationPortable PSP]], you can play as a female protagonist. While she herself averts this trope - not only does she have a [[GenkiGirl drastically]] [[TheHeart different]] personality from her [[TheEeyore male]] [[SugarAndIcePersonality counterpart]], she also has her own set of [[RelationshipValues Social Links]] - her Initial Persona is a feminized version of [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Orpheus]], which is the same Persona as the male's. [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior Ken Amada's]] Initial Persona, meanwhile, is the female Nemesis, but due to its [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/megamitensei/images/e/e3/Nemesis.png/revision/latest?cb=20161019072510 oddly toyetic appearance]], it comes off as more gender neutral.
526* ''VideoGame/PersonaQ2NewCinemaLabyrinth'' likes to play around this ''a lot''. Most of the movie OCs that the party encounters are Gender flipped from what they actually are, [[spoiler:as they are originally all people in Hikari's cognition given forms by Persona users who got dragged into the movies.]]
527** Kamoshidaman, the superhero of his titular movie, [[spoiler:has nothing to do with the ObviouslyEvil pervert rapist teacher that he resembles. Instead, he's actually a teacher in Hikari's primary school who is seen as "absolute authority," who is a woman.]]
528** Yosukesaurus, the outcast dinosaur of ''Junessic Land'', has nothing to do with Yosuke, nor is he as calm and determined as the real one. [[spoiler: He's actually Hikari in secondary school who was being isolated by her friends for having different opinions about dealing with bullied students.]]
529** The Overseer, resembling the [[spoiler:seemingly]] friendly and punny chairman of S.E.E.S, has no relation to the real thing. [[spoiler:It's actually a hybrid cognition of Hikari's [[EducationMama Education Relatives]] who destroyed her completely by suggesting that she should get a good resume then a "normal" office worker job instead of letting her become a movie director.]]
530** The BigBad [[spoiler:Nagi, actually the Mesopotamian God of justice and storms "Enlil" is a woman, even in her OneWingedAngel form where she was clearly masculine. The original god is actually a man.]]
531* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'':
532** Lightning was billed as a DistaffCounterpart to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''[='=]s Cloud Strife. This got hilarious when fans of the series, after decades of extremely pretty and androgynous heroes, were all too ready to complain that Lightning was "just another girl-faced guy". Until they found out that she actually ''was'' a girl. In fact, Lightning being [[{{Bifauxnen}} mistaken for a pretty boy]] is almost a RunningGag in the games themselves, not helped that Square Enix once used her to model in a men's fashion magazine.
533** Fang from the same game was initially conceived as a sexy male character, but eventually became a sexy female character (letting them desexualise Lightning, which they wanted to do). As a result, she ended up [[MasculineGirlFeminineBoy subverting the usual gender roles of]] ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'', and became quite popular as a result. Especially notable is that Fang's gender flip had little, if any, effect on her [[LesYay relationship with Vanille]].
534* ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' features a gender-flipped Saika Magoichi. However, this is subverted in that it could be any woman who has taken the title 'Saika Magoichi' to lead the Saika mercs. The real life Suzuki Shigehide (the best known Saika Magoichi) is said to have had a wife/sister/daughter, and she could very well be any one of them.
535* In ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'', Kunimitsu was initially a palette swap of Yoshimitsu, but in the second game, was [=gender flipped=] and given a mostly-new moveset.
536* ''VideoGame/AkaSeka'' features a male Creator/MurasakiShikibu.
537* In ''VideoGame/BionicCommando Rearmed'', Hal was replaced by Haley.
538* Samus from ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' was (like Aliens above) gender-neutral until the very end where the designers decided to add a twist to the end. The twist? Create a new trope! SamusIsAGirl indeed.
539* One of the playable characters of ''[[VideoGame/OtogiMythOfDemons Otogi 2: Immortal Warriors]]'' is the cold and stoic [[KungFuWizard imperial sorceress]] Seimei, a major protagonist and spiritual guide who's based on the real-life man and legendary Japanese folk-figure Abe no Seimei.
540* ''VideoGame/ChoiceOfGames'': The game ''Choice of Broadsides'' 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]] '''Women'''. ''[[VideoGame/AffairsOfTheCourt 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.
541* ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'': Longtime recurring enemy [[NeatFreak Broom Hatter]], who had previously been referred to as female up until this point, is suddenly referred to with ''male'' pronouns.
542* In the original ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland2LeChucksRevenge'', when Guybrush calls the Creator/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.
543* ''The Flower Shop: Summer in Fairbrook'' was a 2010 indie game about [[SimulationGame gardening]] and [[DatingSim relationships]]. It was followed up with a reverse harem game called ''Winter in Fairbrook'' the next year.
544* The main games in Red Entertainment's ''VideoGame/SakuraWars'' franchise all feature male main characters.
545** Between 2010 and 2011, the same company created a similar two-part [=PS2=] and PSP series called ''Scared Rider Zechs'', with a female lead and a harem of men.
546** Also, a manga spinoff called ''Sakura Wars Kanadegumi'' began publication in 2011. It's a story about one girl and several guys that take place in the Sakura Wars universe.
547* The ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' games have LouisCypher as a recurring character. ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney'' has Louisa Ferre instead.
548* ''Strange Journey'' gets even stranger: everyone's favorite [[GagPenis penis demon]], Mara, is '''female''' for a change. Yes, she's ''still'' a penis.
549* In the original version of Creator/LucasArts' 1990 fantasy adventure game ''VideoGame/{{Loom}}'', the main villain is Chaos, the King of the Dead. As an inhuman undead specter, Chaos' gender is determined only by the other characters' dialogue--and in the original release, they refer to ''him'' and ''he''. In the rewritten talkie PC CD version, however, the dialogue is changed so Chaos becomes ''she''. (This may have occurred in part because Chaos' design was based on the look of [[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty Maleficent]].)
550* Milk, the hero of the NES game ''Nuts & Milk'', was female in the earlier Japanese PC versions.
551* The Rip Van Fish are female in ''VideoGame/{{Something}}'' because they are [[PinkMeansFeminine pink]] and their [[CatchingSomeZs Zs]] are replaced with [[SayItWithHearts hearts]]. They only show up in Only Water Level.
552* ''VideoGame/SpiderManShatteredDimensions'' has a female version of ComicBook/DoctorOctopus as the BigBad of the ComicBook/SpiderMan2099 portion of the game. Also, counts as a [[TwoferTokenMinority Twofer]] since she is of Indian descent.
553* The main antagonist of ''VideoGame/SpiderManMilesMorales'' is the Tinkerer, who is reimagined as a young woman instead of the elderly man from the comics.
554* One dad [[http://kotaku.com/5958918/father-hacks-zelda-for-his-daughter-makes-link-a-girl hacked]] a copy of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' to turn Link into a girl by changing all the gendered pronouns.
555* ''Franchise/TombRaider'' star Lara Croft was originally envisioned as a man, but the character was changed into a woman because the developers felt that the character would be too similar to Franchise/IndianaJones.
556* The NES (and most well-known) version of ''VideoGame/{{Uninvited}}'' changed the protagonist's younger brother into an older sister who otherwise fills the same role.
557* ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork's'' [[AlternateUniverse reimagining]] of [[VideoGame/MegaMan4 Ring Man]] is female.
558* ''VideoGame/ShovelKnight'' added Body Swap Mode as part of the Treasure Trove update, allowing players to switch the genders of whichever major characters they choose, updating the sprites and dialog to match. The only thing it doesn't affect is the visuals of the intro cutscene, since the developers would have needed to create versions of the pixel art for every possible permutation of the main cast's genders.
559* ''VideoGame/DefenseOfTheAncients'' had Tresdin the Legion Commander: a mustachioed and [[FantasticRacism racist]] [[ExactlyWhatitSaysOntheTin commander of a legion.]] In ''VideoGame/Dota2'' Tresdin has been retooled into a woman, is still a commander of a legion, and the racism is toned down but she is still aggressively adamant in her distrust of non-humans, ''especially'' demons after [[DoomedHometown Stonehall.]]
560* In the NES version and one of the US arcade versions of the Capcom shoot-'em-up ''Legendary Wings'', the two main characters of Michelle Heart and Kevin Walker are replaced by nameless angels, both of them male.
561* The Famicom game ''VideoGame/FinalMission'' featured two male commandos as the main characters. When the game was localized for the NES under the title of ''[[VideoGame/SpecialCyberneticAttackTeam S.C.A.T.: Special Cybernetic Attack Team]]'', one of them became female.
562* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'' has a female version of Copperhead as one of the boss characters. Batman even lampshades this by stating that all of the data he had thus far collected in relation to Copperhead indicated a man.
563* [[VideoGame/SpiderManTrilogy The tie-in game to]] ''Film/SpiderMan3'' does this to Dr. Farley Stillwell, making him female.
564* The main character of the book ''Literature/{{Bedlam}}'' is Ross Baker (whose gamertag is Bedlam), a man. The main character of its video game adaptation, ''VideoGame/{{Bedlam}}'', is Heather Quinn (whose gamertag was Athena), a woman (though the game's still named after the original protagonist). WordOfGod says he wanted a woman in the game because so few FPS protagonists are women, and says in retrospect that he should have made the main character of the book a woman, too.
565* ''VideoGame/{{Loved}}'' does this to ''the player''. The voice asks you whether you're a man or a woman; if you respond "man," the voice refers to you as "girl" for the rest of the game, and if you answer "woman," it refers to you as "boy."
566* There's a part in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky'' where the characters put on a SchoolPlay at the Academy. The students stage the classic play "The Madrigal of White Magnolias" but with gender-swapped casting: thus Estelle and Kloe play the dueling knights while Joshua is cajoled into playing the role of the princess.
567* The ''VideoGame/{{Bomberman}}'' series has the arcade spinoff ''VideoGame/BomberGirl'', 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).
568* The ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' video game ''VideoGame/ScoobyDooWhosWatchingWho'' features two suspects who are female versions of male villains from ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'':
569** One of the three suspects for the true identity of the Space Kook is Henrietta Bascombe, who is based on Henry Bascombe, the true identity of the Space Kook in the original series episode "Spooky Space Kook".
570** In the Oceanland level, one of the suspects for the true identity of the Ghost of Redbeard is Professor Alicia Wayne. She is loosely based on Professor Wayne from the original series episode "Scooby's Night with a Frozen Fright".
571* ''VideoGame/HeroesOfTheStorm'': Two heroes have this. The Barbarian from ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' is almost always marketed as the male one, but the [=HotS=] team opted to create the female character Sonya for the barbarian representative. Likewise, the Siege Tank unit was male in both ''VideoGame/StarCraft'' games. Heroes instead use a female CanonForeigner named Sgt. Hammer.
572* The ''VideoGame/KunioKun'' spinoff ''VideoGame/RiverCityGirls'' has Misako and Kyoko rushing off to rescue Kunio and Riki.
573* In ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII: [[VideoGameRemake Reforged]]'', the Demon Hunter and the Death Knight in skirmishes can be optionally played as female variants, with voice lines to boot. Some of the creeps were changed from male to female, particularly the [[OurCentaursAreDifferent centaurs]] and [[FaunsAndSatyrs satyrs]]. Count as GuysSmashGirlsShoot since the swapped gender of those units were archers and spellcasters.
574* In most dubs of ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'', the computer voice that greets the Doom Slayer in Urdak is female. In the Polish dub, the voice is male.
575* When ''VideoGame/UltimaIV'' was ported to the NES, the female tinker Julia was changed to the male Julius.
576* Much like in ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'', ''VideoGame/IronManVR'' presents Ghost as a [[RaceLift black]] woman instead of a white man.
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579[[folder:Visual Novels]]
580* The Chinese epic ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'' gets two HGame then later ''three'' anime series that feature most of its historically male characters as attractive females: some [[Manga/IkkiTousen voluptuous]], some [[VisualNovel/KoihimeMusou moe]]. As for the historically ''female'' characters, such as Diao Chan, the result in ''Koihime Musou'' was... [[Creator/NorioWakamoto terrifying]].
581* The ''VisualNovel/ChuSinGura46Plus1'' VisualNovel series by Inre turns almost all [[Film/The47Ronin 46 ronin]] (you play as the [[TimeTravel time-traveling]] protagonist 47th one) and all members of UsefulNotes/TheShinsengumi into [[{{Moe}} cute]] [[{{Stripperiffic}} girls in microskirts]] who are all ready for you to screw, and in the case of the ronin, to knock up. It also has a surprising amount of plot and faithful historical references to the event as well.
582* The ''[[VideoGame/EiyuuSenkiTheWorldConquest Eiyuu*Senki]]'' HGame series by Tenco features a hodgepodge of cute, screwable gender flip (female) historical/legendary/mythological figures from all over the world, ranging from feudal Japan (Date Masamune, Yamato Takeru, Miyamoto Musashi, etc.), to China (Qin Shi Huang, Sun Tzu, Lu Bu, Jiang Ziya, etc.), to India (Ashoka), to Mongolia (Kubilai Khan), to the Americas (Christopher Columbus, Geronimo, Montezuma II, Wayna Qhapaq, Blackbeard, Kamehameha), to the Middle East (Hammurabi, Tutankhamun, Gilgamesh, Cambyses II, etc.), to Europe (Marco Polo, King Arthur and other Arthurian figures, Palamedes, Aristotle, Achilles, Heracles, Nostradamus, Alexander the Great, Caesar, Napoleon, Charlemagne, Beethoven, Faust, Leonardo da Vinci, Ferdinand Magellan, Ivan the Terrible, Grigori Rasputin, Copernicus, CĂș Chulainn, Sigurd, Loki, etc.). Also features one cameo of Uesugi Kenshin from ''Sengoku Rance''. A few characters are based on actual female figures, such as Himiko, Joan of Arc and Cleopatra.
583* The HGame ''Sengoku Rance'' by Creator/AliceSoft re-imagines some historical figures of the Sengoku (Warring States) period such as Uesugi Kenshin and Yamamoto Isoroku, as cute, screwable girls.
584* ''Franchise/FateSeries'':
585** The series as it released is gender flipped compared to [[WhatCouldHaveBeen the scenario originally planned]]: Saber herself was originally going to be a male character and servant of a {{Meganekko}} who was the basis of [[DecompositeCharacter Shirou and Rin]]. The original scenario was eventually turned into a 12-minute long [=OVA=] called ''Anime/FatePrototype'' and later expanded to the ''Fragments of Pale Silver'' novels.
586** In the parody manga ''Sensha Otoko: A True Tank Story'', Waver Velvet is a girl and Iskandar's love interest. Enkidu, who in canon is AmbiguousGender but is usually referred to with male pronouns, is a girl and Gilgamesh's love interest.
587* [[Literature/SherlockHolmes Colonel Sebastian Moran]] and Henry Irving have both been [=gender flipped=] in ''VisualNovel/ShikkokuNoSharnoth'', though for the former it's quite possible that it is not her real name.
588* The doujin soft game ''[[http://www.download.com/3000-20-10536283.html Go! Magical Boy]]'' is a RomanceGame that switches the genders of the MagicalGirl genre. [[spoiler:Well, mostly -- the player character looks like a girl to others when transformed and has to give up his powers to a legitimate girl in the end. So not the best game ever.]]
589* ''Koikari Love For Hire'' is a romcom RomanceGame that reimagines ''Manga/RentAGirlfriend'', starring a male equivelant to Chizuru, in a web of deception between multiple girls and turning down their confessions because he's OnlyInItForTheMoney.
590* The ''Pia Carrot'' HGame series had male main characters and a group of female love interests in its four NumberedSequels and spinoffs. Then a reverse harem story called ''Prince Pia Carrot'' was released on Platform/PlaystationPortable in October 2014 with just a [[UsefulNotes/MediaClassifications CERO D]] rating.
591* ''VisualNovel/ShallWeDateMyFairyTales'' does this to a majority of the love interests. They're all male counterparts to famous fairytale characters such as ''Literature/SnowWhite'', ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'', ''Literature/TheLittleMermaid'' and so on and so forth.
592* ''VisualNovel/ShallWeDateOz'' features two love interests that are male versions of two original characters from ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz''.
593* The ''[=TaishoXAlice=]'' series of visual novels does a different take on fairy tales, folktales, and their female protagonists... by sending the heroine of the series into a fairy tale world where all of them are men. Even [[AliceAllusion Alice]] and Princess Kaguya get included into this. And since this is also a DatingSim, it stands to reason that miss Heroine is our prince character.
594* In the {{game mod}} based on ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'', there is ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiSwitcheroo'' in which the main girls in the original game are reimagined as boys. This even extends to the default player character who is represented as a female in this version.
595* In traditional ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' stories, Inspector Lestrade is a man. ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney'' reimagines Lestrade as a female pickpocket who joins the force between games.
596* Most titles in the ''VisualNovel/DaCapo'' franchise feature a male lead and some adult content. ''Da Capo Girl's Symphony'' features a female lead and no adult content.
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600* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'':
601** Every team is based on a particular theme. The theme of JNPR is [[ItMakesSenseInContext "gender flipped heroes of legend of varying eras and nationalities, whose original basis crossdressed."]] Jaune Arc is a [[JeanneDArchetype male Joan of Arc]], Nora Valkyrie is a [[Myth/NorseMythology female Thor]], Pyrrha Nikos is a [[Literature/TheIliad female Achilles]], and Lie Ren is a [[Literature/TheBalladOfMulan male Mulan]].
602** Robyn Hill and her Happy Huntresses are all gender flips of characters from the Myth/RobinHood mythos (though Maid Marian {{Expy}} May Marigold is a transgender woman rather than a man).
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606* ''Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace'':
607** Tristram, Argavaine and Gareth are female in the space and contemporary arcs. Isolde is female in all arcs, and this makes no difference to Tristram's story. (However, Gareth's paramour becomes male in the space arc.)
608** Sir Bromell, Elaine of Carbonek's knight protector, is an interesting example -- he's a male knight in the baseline arc just like in the legends, and female in the contemporary one (where she and Elaine only exist in Arthur's webcomic). But because AKOTAS-Elaine is based on Helen from ''{{Webcomic/Narbonic}}'', the baseline Bromell is actually a gender-flipped version of Mell.
609* ''Magical Boys'' and ''Webcomic/MahouShounenFight'' gender-flips the MagicalGirlWarrior series.
610* ''Webcomic/{{Spinnerette}}'' is a Gender Flip of ComicBook/SpiderMan.
611* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', this is played with. [[spoiler:The Scratched Universe introduces 4 new main characters: Roxy is the counterpart to Rose and Dirk is the counterpart to Dave, but John and Jade are gender flipped to Jane and Jake, respectively. Justified, as the post-Scratch kids are actually meant to correspond to the pre-Scratch characters' guardians rather than the kids themselves. John's father was born the traditional way rather than by ectobiology, so Jane represents his grandmother]].
612* In ''Webcomic/ElsannaBramStokersDracula'', Elsa is the {{Expy}} to the titular Dracula from the [[Film/BramStokersDracula 1992 film]].
613* Within ''Webcomic/MissAbbottAndTheDoctor'' is 10 chapters of ''Mister'' Abbott and the Doctor, with the genders of the main couple reversed.
614* In chapter 11 of ''Webcomic/LottaSvardWomenOfWar'', Helle tells a scary story about four soldiers, who happen to look exactly like male versions of the four protagonists. Later on, [[https://setzeri.tumblr.com/post/655339681470365696/ the artist would release more detailed art of these flips]] and reveal their names: Tuure, Timo, Heikki and Launo[[note]]Based on Tyyne, Taimi, Helle and Lahja respectively[[/note]].
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618* The official designation for the Creator/NickJr logo from 1988 to 2009 is called "Father and Son", featuring an orange humanoid, Nick, and a smaller blue humanoid, Jr, both commonly envisioned as male. In ''ARG/TheNoedolekcinArchives'', Jr. is [[https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1116777439897596024/1135744090835779755/image.png?width=1005&height=334 confirmed]] to be female through WordOfGod.
619* In ''[[Webcomic/AsteroidQuest Polokoa Quest]]'', Chief is female in Rokolo's Compilation AI (CAI). In [[Webcomic/UnnaturalSelection the story they originate from]], he is male. Polokoa Quest is an alternative universe spinoff that has a number of changes to various characters from the original.
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622[[folder:Web Videos]]
623* The review of ''Partymania'' on ''WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment'' took place in a genderswapped 80s world. Linkara (or rather, his 90s Kid persona) became 80s Chick and Spoony became the giggly girly Spoonette. And Benzaie... let's not talk about Veronique.
624* In WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'' review, male "FanDumb of the Opera" is stalking female Beth, but female Hyper is still wanting to force male Critic into being with her.
625* ''WebVideo/TheVeronicaExclusive'', a web series adaptation of ''{{Film/Heathers}}'' makes [[SerialKiller Jason "J.D." Dean]] into [[PsychoLesbian Jane "J.D." Dean]].
626* ''Funny or Die'' presented a parody of ''Series/TheHandmaidsTale'' called ''The Handman's Tale'', where men are in the role of the oppressed Handmen who live under the thumb of a theocratic society controlled by women.
627* ''WebVideo/MiddlemarchTheSeries'' reimagines Will Ladislaw as Billie Ladislaw, Mary Garth as Max Garth, and James Chettam as Jamie Chettam.
628* In ''WebVideo/TheEmmaAgenda'', George Knightley is instead Jordan Knightley, and Jane Fairfax is Jon Fairfax.
629* ''WebVideo/MerryMaidens'' gender-flips Robin Hood and the Merry Men.
630* In WebVideo/SsethTzeentach's [[https://youtu.be/_G0yeNCu5VU review]] of ''VideoGame/{{Wizardry}} 8'', his party consists of several other [=YouTube=] personalities, with painstakingly-created animated portraits for each of them, including [[WebVideo/DownTheRabbitHole Fredrik Knudsen]] - who is made a woman, because all of the best magic-boosting trinkets in the game are only able to be equipped by women "and we need to {{minmax|ing}}".
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