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

Here's a quick spin on an old story. Flip the traditionally male roles to the women and the women's to the men. If you are in a hurry, you don't need to change much but a few names and the casting.

If you are able to give it a little more thought, though, you can take this opportunity to explore how there might be a ''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 occasionally have GenderFlip variants; they are invariably played absolutely straight.

{{Fan Fic}}s that gender flip are fairly common (they're often tagged as 'Genderfuck', or 'GF').

A GenderFlip may also happen for some, but not all, characters in TheRemake, especially if the original version suffered from TheSmurfettePrinciple.

Compare DistaffCounterpart, ShesAManInJapan and GenderBender.
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[[folder: Anime and Manga ]]

* ''AbsoluteBoyfriend'' is a gender swapped version of the stereotypical ''MagicalGirlfriend'' series.
**Yuu Watase loves this trope. Her manga series very often feature a female protagonist forced by the events of the series to choose between two or more equally appealing suitors, in a gender-reversed version of the HaremAnime scenario.
*As is the (unfortunately defunct) {{Webcomic}}, ''[[http://www.fluffy-bunnies.com/magicalboys/archive.php?comicid=0 Magical Boys]]''.
* The Chinese epic ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'' gets ''three'' series that feature most of its historically male characters as attractive females: some [[IkkiTousen voluptuous]], some [[KoihimeMusou moe]], some [[RyofukoChan lolicious]]. As for the historically ''female'' characters, such as Diao Chan, the result in ''KoihimeMusou'' was... [[NorioWakamoto terrifying]].
* The doujin soft game [[http://www.download.com/3000-20-10536283.html Go! Magical Boy]] is a DatingSim 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.]]
* One episode of ''{{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. (A boy named Alicia...odd world.) Everybody also still behaves exactly the same as before. President Aria wakes up thinking that this alternate world may have been just a dream, but then he sees his female otherworld self smiling at him through the mirror...
* ''[[FateStayNight Fate/stay night]]'' and prequel ''[[FateZero Fate/zero]]'' put a spin on a famous legend - [[spoiler:KingArthur was a handsome young ''lady''.]]
** [[spoiler:Mordred]] too out of necessity since it's no longer possible to have the classic origin. In the anime at least it's hard to say if [[spoiler:Bedivere]] is a case of this or is just a {{Bishonen}} with a [[MamikoNoto really girly voice]].
*** Since she's voiced by a woman in both versions (original and dub), Bedivere is probably flipped, too.
** 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 Rin.
* The Manwha ''EviyoneOceanFantasy'' is a Gender Flipped version of Hans Christian Anderson's "the Little Mermaid".
* In what can be considered a MemeticMutation outbreak, gender-flipped versions of the cast of ''SuzumiyaHaruhi'' recently took the internet by storm, with Kyonko at the center of it all. There are even ongoing fan projects, which can be read at [[http://www.baka-tsuki.net/project/index.php?title=Suzumiya_Haruki_no_Seitenkan Baka-Tsuki]] and at [[http://wiki.sos-dan.com/wiki/Category:Genderbending the SOS-dan wiki]] to ''completely GenderFlip the light novels''. Both were born on this [[http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=63152 Animesuki thread]]. It also has a [[FanFic/SuzumiyaHaruhiNoSeitenkan page on this wiki]].
** There are gender flipped FanDub {{Image Song}}s. And at least [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZzCyLAT6iQ Kyonko's version of Kentai Life Returns]] is good.
** ANY ImageSong by Yuuki Nagato prompts [[BishieSparkle Bishie Sparkles]] from fangirls. There is also an english version of Yuuki Nagato's Select image song [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGlVh9F4Rjk that you can listen here.]] Haruki is just as GAR as [[FateStayNight Archer]], and Mitsuuru is basically a CuteShotaroBoy.
* The second anime adaptation of Hector Malot's novel ''Sans Famille'' does this to the main character.
* Several fans have [[EpilepticTrees theorized]] that the three leads of ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' are examples; noting [[http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/may_chan/TG%20Images/Evangelion/Evangelion_TG_Would_be_Better.jpg how few would speak ill of]] a [[TheWoobie sad little]] {{Moe}} Shinji, HotBlooded JerkAss Asuka, and TheStoic Rei were they the opposite genders. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9ZOf-3q2x4 This Video]] shows a nice example of that idea.
** Shinji in particular. See, for instance, the fanfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4673040/1/And_If_That_Dont_Workr And If That Don't Work?]]''.
* SailorMoon is, effectively, a GenderFlip of the typical FiveManBand {{Sentai}} series.
* The usual MagicalGirl story has an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent suddenly met a MysteriousProtector and a [[{{Mentors}} Mentor]], one of which will give them a [[TransformationTrinket magical device]] that allows them to [[TransformationSequence instantly change]] into ''fabulous'' new clothes! Cool! Oh, and it will also make them stronger. Somehow. Anyway, with these sexy clothes, the hero makes friends instantly and fight TheHeartless who are always interested in the souls of their hometown, while never actually killing anyone, but instead magically ''healing them'' of their meanness. And you always know this team is stronger by an [[FrillsOfJustice upgrade of their outfits' sexiness.]] Wait. Isn't this the plot of ''{{Bleach}}''?!?!!? Not to mention that there's pretty much [[MsFanservice equal]]-[[EstrogenBrigadeBait opportunity]] {{fanservice}}.
* ''{{Mai-HiME}}'' 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 [[JamesBondage completely helpless]] compared to all the {{MagicalGirl}}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}}.
* A variant shows up in ''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.
* ''StrikeWitches'', which features gender flipped versions of real life WWII {{Ace Pilot}}s.
* ''CodeGeass'' has Kallen Kouzuki, who is a gender flipped version of your standard SuperRobot HotBlooded AcePilot, who also has a BodyGuardCrush on her boss. She makes it really obvious with her lines too.
--> '''Kallen''':''"If only you had justice!"''
** She is [[http://animanachronism.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/kasshu-family.jpg said to have descended]] from [[GGundam Domon Kasshu]] himself. Taught never to retreat, never to surrender... Oh, wait, [[ThreeHundred wrong movie]].
** Let's not forget the fact that ALL of her mechs have been [[MobileSuitGundam red.]]
* Lots of AxisPowersHetalia fanart feature the BlueBishonenGhetto being turned into a PinkBishoujoGhetto. Female!England and Male!Hungary are particularly popular. As for the author's reactions... [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/minnna.jpg well...]]
** ''Afghanis-tan'' (the Moe-tan version of the modern history of Afghanistan) and ''Hetalia'' are (probably) unintentional Gender Flips of ''each other''.
* ''KodomoNoJikan'' had a [[http://manga.animea.net/kodomo-no-jikan-chapter-34-page-28.html gender]] [[http://manga.animea.net/kodomo-no-jikan-chapter-34-page-29.html flip]] {{Omake}}, and since then there have been several gender flipped {{Imagine Spot}}s, and even a short (non-canon, obviously) manga story that came with the 3rd OAV DVD.
* The cast of ''SchoolRumble'' and ''CardCaptorSakura'' both staged gender-flipped versions of ''SleepingBeauty'' and ''{{Cinderella}}'', respectively.
* Similarly, the cast of ''HourouMusuko'' has gender flipped ''The Rose of Versailles'' and ''Romeo & Juliet.''
* ''BlackLagoon'' has a genderflip omake at the end of volume 4. Poor, poor Rock.

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[[folder: Comic Books ]]

* Redlance and Nightfall of ''ElfQuest'' are a couple whose gender roles are deliberately reversed and they're perfectly comfortable with it. Redlance (the guy) is shy, gentle and nurturing, while Nightfall is a tough hunter and warrior. In one scene she even goes off to war leaving him to look after the kids. This is in direct contrast to Strongbow (a bad tempered, taciturn tough guy) and his quiet, submissive partner Moonshade. These characters were intended to bookend the elves' entire range of gender types, but [[DoubleStandard ironically]] some fans complained about Moonshade's submissiveness while never batting an eyelid at Redlance's.
* In TheMultiverse of TheDCU, Earth-11 is an AlternateUniverse where all the genders are flipped. Thus you have [[Comicbook/{{Superman}} Superwoman]] and [[{{Supergirl}} Superlad]], [[Comicbook/{{Batman}} Batwoman]], Alexis Luthor, [[WonderWoman Wonder Man]] (or Wonder Warrior, depending on your sources), and so on.
* One issue of the old ''WeirdScience'' comic featured an America where gender roles were switched, ostensibly after a woman took the presidency and then influenced big business. While the story could have had potential, it was undermined by being very heavy-handed; rather than having, for instance, the women use female viewpoints and opinions in their new social positions, they assume roles and behaviors almost identical to males; men become meek, retiring 'househusbands', while working women kick back at the strip bar (with rather unattractive male strippers), and so on. The only aversions made are usually wholly inappropriate, such as a group of female miners forming a strike for the right to have a powder room (to fix their makeup) on each level of the mine. The story ends with the male narrator, in a hospital, rushed off to the Paternity Ward...
** An episode of {{Sliders}} had the same idea, and carried it off reasonably well. Women, having been in charge for generations, have become self-indulgent and arrogant in more or less the same way as extremely patriarchal men, but people there also have slightly different ideals and priorities than people in our own world. The female politician Arturo ends up running against in an election believes that men are unfit for positions of power because they aren't as good at cooperation and peaceful negotiation as women, and Arturo's attempt to throw the election by pretending that a debate has hurt his feelings (which he assumes will make the voters regard him as being overly sensitive) [[SpringtimeForHitler instead causes him to win]], because he comes off as human and relatable.
** StarTrek: The Next Generation did something similar. The Enterprise visited a planet where the women ran the show and the men were in subservient positions. The women acted as stereotypical men and vice versa. The only really interesting thing to note is that the men actually did look smaller and frailer and the women looked bigger and tougher than is typical.
* Quite late in GrantMorrison's ''[[SevenSoldiers Shining Knight]]'' mini, we learn that Sir Ystin (a cross-time counterpart of the original Shining Knight, Sir Justin ... sort of) is [[SweetPollyOliver secretly]] Ystina.
* Mike W. Barr likes this trope and used it both in Camelot 3000 for Tristan and in Mantra (first series) for the title character.
* One issue of ''SpiderMan [[{{Elseworld}} Fairy Tales]]'' was yet another gender-flipped Cinderella. Peter was Cinders, with Norman and Harry Osborne as the evil stepfather and stepbrother, Gwen as the princess, and MJ is a servant at the Osbornes who helps Peter (possibly a gender flipped version of the {{Panto}} character Buttons).
* ''{{GI Joe}} Reloaded'', an UltimateUniverse attempt for the franchise published by Devil's Due, Gender Flipped "Doc" into a female TwoferTokenMinority to help avert TheSmurfettePrinciple.

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[[folder: Fairy Tales ]]

* [[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/hanselgretel/stories/molly.html Molly Whuppie]]'s story is classified among the tales of the type "The Small ''Boy'' Defeats the Ogre", like [[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/hopomythumb/index.html Hop O' My Thumb]].
* In [[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/hanselgretel/stories/rosetree.html The Rose Tree]], 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]].
* [[http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch271.htm The Lord of Lorn and the False Steward]] features a hero in a tale normally told with a heroine, such as [[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/goosegirl/index.html The Goose Girl]].
* [[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.
* Cinderella and her sisters have brothers, Cinderlad or Askeladden, in folklore in such tales as [[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/asbjornsenmoe/princessglasshill.html The Princess on the Glass Hill]], [[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/hopomythumb/stories/bootstroll.html Boots and the Troll]], and [[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/asbjornsenmoe/sevenfoals.html The Seven Foals]].
* SleepingBeauty and SnowWhite are the best known of the common sleeping princess, but the sleeping prince is also know, as in the frame story of [[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/pentamerone/1introduction1911.html The Pentamerone]].
* [[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/twelvedancing/stories/katiecrackernuts.html Katie Crackernuts]] rescues a prince, in a reversal of the story of [[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/twelvedancing/index.html The Twelve Dancing Princesses]].
* The SheCleansUpNicely plot of {{Cinderella}} and her sisters has a GenderFlip equivalent in ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/bearskin/index.html Bearskin]]'', and such variants as ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/bearskin/stories/dongiovanni.html Don Giovanni de la Fortuna]]'', ''[[http://www.gwu.edu/~folktale/GERM232/bearskin/web%20pages/SoldierandtheBadMan.html The Soldier and the Bad Man]]'', ''[[http://www.gwu.edu/~folktale/GERM232/bearskin/web%20pages/RoadtoHell.html The Road to Hell]]'', ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/bearskin/stories/rewardkindness.html The Reward of Kindness]]'', [[http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0361.html#sutermeister ''The Devil As Partner'' and ''Never Wash'']].
* Man/woman acquires a magical spouse, [[ForbiddenFruit violates a prohibition]], and must go on TheQuest to find the spouse again. . . . The fairy tales classifed as "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/eastsunwestmoon/other.html The Search for the Lost Husband]]" are as plentiful as those classified "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/swanmaiden/other.html The Quest for a Lost Bride]]", making it impossible to say which is the original and which the GenderFlip.
* The ChildBallad ''[[http://www.bartleby.com/243/76.html The Lord of Lorn and the False Steward]]'' and the FairyTale ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/goosegirl/index.html The Goose-Girl]]'' are {{GenderFlip}}s of each other. Both feature protagonists who were overpowered by servants and promised never to tell of the crime in order to save their lives. The servants then took their place and made them work as menial servants until someone (the father of her intended bridegroom for ''The Goose Girl''; the daughter of a local lord for ''The Lord of Lorn and the False Steward'') figured out how to get the tale without ([[ExactWords technically]]) breaking the promise.
* 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]].

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[[folder: Film ]]

* The Jerry Lewis movie ''[=CinderFella=]''.
* In one of the most famous examples of this trope, Ripley of the ''{{Alien}}'' series takes a role usually filled by a man. The writers of the original script kept things basic so they could have any character be male ''or'' female; somebody suggested Ripley be a woman and they liked the idea, so they used it. Only in later films did she receive her first name of Ellen.
* Conversely, Bruce Campbell in ''EvilDead'' plays what is essentially the FinalGirl of the horror movie. His first name, Ashley, is even feminine. By the sequels, however, he's a BadAss.
** Not that this was actually planned ahead of time. The order in which characters died mirrored the order in which the actors left. Apparently Campbell was the one without a life.
* The character of Dizzy Flores in ''StarshipTroopers'' was a man in the original Robert A. Heinlein novel. He was switched to a she and played by Dina Meyers in the movie. ''[[RecycledTheSeries Roughnecks]]'' followed the movie's lead.
** Note that in the book, ground combat roles were filled by men with above-average upper-body strength, while all pilots were women, who had better reflexes and higher g tolerance.
* The live-action adaptation of [[DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney's]] TheJungleBook gender-bends Bagheera - and Bagheera alone - so that s/he's a female for the duration of a movie. (This is presumably so Mowgli would have a motherly figure, but it's still odd when it's your first time viewing the adaption as a kid when the only version you've seen as a kid is the animated one, where Bagheera is a dude.
* Done in two recent versions of ''TreasureIsland''. In ''Muppet Treasure Island'', Ben Gunn is changed to Benjamina Gunn just so Miss Piggy can have a role to play. In ''TreasurePlanet'', the captain is a [[CatGirl feline lady alien]] named Amelia.
* The famous duet of [[strike:seduction]] date rape "Baby, It's Cold Outside" was first introduced in the movie ''Neptune's Daughter'' by Esther Williams and Ricardo Montalban. She plays "The Mouse" and he plays "The Wolf," as you would expect. But the song is soon reprised by Betty Garrett and Red Skelton, and this time he's the one who's resisting and she's the one who's advancing.
** Again flipped in a version with [[{{Hellboy}} Selma Blair]] and [[TheOffice Rainn Wilson]]. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hEJQbEYjRg Oh My!]]
** Probably in a {{Shout Out}} (or not, this ''is'' Miss Piggy after all), one episode of ''TheMuppetShow'' had Miss Piggy being the "Wolf" to the Guest Star with this song.
* The film version of ''SergeantBilko'' turned Cpl Rocky Barbella into Cpl Raquelle Barbella. (Bilko's other sidekick, Cpl Henshaw, was given a RaceLift).
* A 1990s adaptation of Mickey Spillaine's ''Come Die With Me'' made Mike Hammer's cop buddy Lt. Pat Chambers into ''Patricia'' Chambers.
** The HumanPopsicle {{Expy}} of Hammer in the comic book ''Mickey Spillaine's Mike Danger'' worked with a Lt. Patrick Chandler in the 1950s, but his descendent Patricia after he was thawed out in the future.
* ''HeadOverHeels'' is a gender-flipped romantic comedy version of ''RearWindow''.
* The Howard Hawks classic newspaper comedy ''His Girl Friday'' is a gender-flipped version of the play ''The Front Page'' (which had already been made into an acclaimed movie once before). Hawks turned the "Hildy Johnson" character into a woman and made it a romantic comedy. Billy Wilder later remade it yet again with two male protagonists, and then an '80s remake called ''Switching Channels'' - set this time in the television news industry - put the romance aspect back.
* Most shadowcasts of the RockyHorrorPictureShow will let anyone, regardless of gender, audition for any part.
** Except the gender [[spoiler fuck]] shows that specifically flip the roles.

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[[folder: Literature ]]

* {{Shakespeare}}'s ''King Lear'' has had incarnations that explore this technique. 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).
** ''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.
** ''King Lear'' is itself loosely based on the story of how, in the early 6th century, Clovis Merovingian divided France up among his three sons for them to rule equally, which didn't turn out so well -- ''Lear'' is a Gender Flip to begin with.
** AkiraKurosawa's ''{{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.
* Even stranger than the ''King Lear'' examples above, there was a production of ''Julius Caesar'' in which Caesar 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 problems as well: it thought it was set in a dance club TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture.)
* Matthew Bourne's "SwanLake" took the ballet and turned all the swans into male characters.
* Neil Simon wrote a version of ''The Odd Couple'' with every role gender swapped, simply called ''The Odd Couple: Female Version''. The biggest difference is that the British Cuckoo Pigeon sisters are changed to a pair of Italian brothers, whose names and accents become the source of a great deal of wordplay.
* ''Cinderellis and the Glass Hill'', by Gail Carson Levine, 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.)
** ''Cinderellis and the Glass Hill'' is based on a Norwegian fairy tale called ''The Princess on the Glass Hill''
* This shows up in a ''StainlessSteelRat'' story from Harry Harrison. The AdventureTown planet he has to rescue happens to have a very matriarchal structure. The male lead ends up in the standard uniform of the invaded planet's army for a while. For some reason, if memory serves, the heels weren't quite the same as you see on normal combat boots.
* [[{{Dragaera}} The ''Khaavren Romances'']] are a fantasy [[RecycledInSpace recycling]] of ''TheThreeMusketeers'' and the rest of that series. 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.
* Trivigaunte, in ''The Book of the Long Sun,'' is essentially a parody of fundamentalist Islam, but with the genders reversed.
* Terry Pratchett is fond of genderswapped gags in his {{Discworld}} books.
** In ''Discworld/TheLightFantastic'' Cohen the barbarian attempts to free the virgin girl sacrifice from the deadly druid priesthood. He goes through the priests like a chainsaw through butter, but Cohen is about 90 years old at this point, and his back goes out. He ends up fleeing the temple, slung over the shoulder of the virgin girl.
** In ''Discworld/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.
** In ''Discworld/MonstrousRegiment'' the whole point of the story is that the 'Male Only' military is really half female.
**''Discworld/EqualRites'' has elements of ''[[EarthseaTrilogy A Wizard Of Earthsea]]'', with Esk in Ged's role.

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[[folder: Live Action TV ]]

* ''TheXFiles'' gets part of its peculiar feel from the male lead and female lead taking on the [[MotherNatureFatherScience aspects]] usually given to the other gender: Mulder is intuitive and ready to believe, while Scully is hard-nosed and science-minded. [[SkepticismFailure Mulder was right]].
* Similarly, in ''{{Stargate SG-1}}'' Carter is the one who can identify leptons by mass. Daniel Jackson is the one who believes aliens built the pyramids. (In Daniel's defense... they did.) It goes much deeper than that, however. Carter is also shown as the second most proficient fighter, with the current team leader being the most proficient. Especially in the early episodes Dr. Jackson is shown as barely knowing how to hold a gun, much less use it, while Carter mows down bad guys and calls tactics. Stargate, in general, has been on the good side of this trope, Teyla in Stargate Atlantis is also shown to be an extremely capable fighter, able to teach the guys a thing or two, while [=McKay=] is even worse than Jackson.
*One of the episodes of the new ''FantasyIsland'' featured a terminally ill woman who wanted to experience life as a soldier in a combat zone. Instead of being placed with a company of male soldiers like she expected, she was placed in a gender-reversed version of TheSquad, which was filled with the requisite roughneck personality types, only with women playing the roles.
* HotAmazon Zoe and pilot Wash in ''{{Firefly}}'' are a case similar to Redlance and Nightfall from ''Elfquest'' listed above.
* Pamela Anderson sitcom ''Stacked'' was basically a GenderFlip version of the Sam & Diane relationship in ''{{Cheers}}'' with the BookDumb popular extrovert (Skyler) being female and the socially inept academic (Gavin) being male.
** Speaking of which, ''BarbWire'' is a GenderFlip version of ''{{Casablanca}}''.
* One episode of ''Flight Of The Conchords'' had Bret in a relationship in which all the male and female clichés were reversed (Bret wanted a long-term relationship, while the woman he was with just wanted sex, and pretended she was getting shipped out to Iraq).
** A similar gag was used in ''{{Scrubs}}'' when Elliot was dating a male nurse. And to a lesser extent with her relationship with Keith.
--->'''Dr Kelso''': You were having an argument, but it was like he's the chick and you're the guy.
* The ''BattlestarGalactica'' remake {{Gender Flip}}s Starbuck and Boomer (also a RaceLift) from the original. And Commander (now Admiral) Cain.
* Both perpetuated and subverted in ''RemingtonSteele''. The woman is actually the brains behind the detective agency, but a con man plays the part of the private eye. However, while he's a lead, she's still the boss.
* Robin and Ted's relationship in ''HowIMetYourMother'' had this feel -- Ted wanted to settle down and have kids, while Robin shied away from commitment.
** When Ted tells the story of how he lost his virginity, it seems very conventional. He later confesses that he switched the roles--actually, the girl was the lying cad, and he was the naive kid with a crush.
* The crew of the RedDwarf ''meet'' the {{GenderFlip}}ped versions of themselves in a parallel universe.
** Although, not all of them were flipped. Cat, the ultimate narcissist, is looking forward to meeting the feminine version of himself for... obvious reasons. It turns out, his counterpart on the 'female' ship is a dog with zero dress sense.
* {{Chuck}} is the gender-flipped version of the toughened, emotionless spy (Sarah) falling for the sensitive, caring normal guy (Chuck) she's protecting. The series also plays with gender-flipping with Ellie and Awesome's relationship; in one episode, when the couple are buying engagement gifts, Ellie chooses the wide-screen TV while Awesome goes for the washing machine.
* ''All That Glitters'' was a soap opera/sitcom in 1977, created by Norman Lear. The series depicted an alternate world where the women are dominant corporate executives, and the men are househusbands and secretaries. Only lasted for 13 episodes, but stirred up quite a reaction from critics at the time.
* ''WillAndGrace''. Will wanted to stage an all-male rendition of ''{{Ben-Hur}}'' titled "Ben-Him". Grace mentioned her mother appeared as "Millie Loman" in "Death of a Sales Lady".
*Djaq in ''Series/RobinHood'' is a GenderFlip of the Saracen outlaw seen in ''RobinOfSherwood'' (Nassir) and ''RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'' (Azeem).
* ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', like ''{{Aliens}}'', features tough ''girls'' fighting monsters.

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[[folder: Video Games ]]

* The entire point behind ''SuperPrincessPeach'' was to give Peach a starring role where she saves the Mario Bros. from Bowser for a change. With... Flowers, hearts, and magical mood swing powers.
* Oh yes, and [[{{Metroid}} Samus]] [[SamusIsAGirl Is A Girl]] for a reason.
* The "For Girl" versions of ''HarvestMoon'' and ''Tokimeki Memorial'' games.
* ''Warriors Orochi Z'' recently features a genderflipped [[JamesBondage Tang Sanzang]] AKA [[JourneyToTheWest Genjou]] [[{{Saiyuki}} Sanzou]] as their most recent addition.
* In ''{{Onimusha}} 2'', WordOfGod states that the Yagyu Jubei who is the main character is the grandfather of ''the'' YagyuJubei. ...then ''Onimusha 4'' comes out and there's a Jubei (it's a title in the family) and she's his granddaughter...
** Any sign of a [[{{Jubei-chan}} lovely eyepatch?]]
* The ''{{Persona 3}}'' VideogameRemake for the {{PSP}} is going to have the option to have a female version of the protagonist. There are also shots of a male version of Elizabeth named "Theodore." The fandom has taken this and ran with it in terms of fanart.
* [[FinalFantasyXIII Lightning]] is billed as a DistaffCounterpart to [[FinalFantasyVII Cloud Strife]].

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*''ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace'' has Dame Tristram, Dame Argavaine and (female-term-for-squire) Gaheris. At least in the space arc. Tristram is also female in the contemporary arc, but the others haven't appeared yet. Isolde is female in all arcs, and this makes no difference to Tristram's story.

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* ''The Princess and the Pauper'', a girls' video based on {{Barbie}} dolls.
** Also ''Barbie and TheThreeMusketeers''.
* A particularly demented example occurs in ''DrawnTogether'' on the episode "A [[VerySpecialEpisode Very Special]] Drawn Together Afterschool Special" where the characters, in an attempt to help Xandir prepare for revealing his homosexuality to his parents, role play as Xandir's parents (among other random roles). Eventually even this fake family has to see a therapist (Woldoor), who suggests that said role playing family role play yet again. This ends with Captain Hero being a meek, feminine housewife, Toot being a homophobic blue-collar father, and Xandir becoming a prostitute for Japanese businessmen.
* Kim Possible has female Kim playing the competent, repressed, easily-embarrassed, uncertain hero in need of reassurance; and male Ron playing the intuitive, accepting, undiscriminating, adoring, clumsy 'girl friday', who suffers clothing damage regularly.
* Some have accused ''JohnnyTest'' of being a gender-flipped version of ''[[DextersLaboratory Dexter's Laboratory]]'' (annoying ''male'' sibling with super-intelligent ''sister(s)'' instead of the opposite).
**It's because Chris Savino, who directed seasons 3 and 4 of ''Dexter's Laboratory'', worked on ''Johnny Test'' as a contributing writer, producer, and director of some episodes.
* In the ''CaptainScarlet'' remake, Seymour Griffiths (CodeName: Lt. Green) is replaced by Serena Lewis (also {{codename}}d Lt. Green).
* ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Fans often joke that the roles of the EvilOverlord's son and daughter on the EvilOverlordList are gender flipped with Zuko and Azula. [[AllThereInTheManual The Nick website]] also suggests Ozai and Zuko are a rare Gender Flip of the FairestOfThemAll trope.
** The series also has two [[WhatCouldHaveBeen developmental]] gender flips: Toph and Azula both started as ''male'' characters (the latter being called "Prince Azul", and initially having a much smaller part that didn't come up until the end).
* In the 90s cartoon version of ''FlashGordon'', Flash's ally Prince Thun of the Lion People became Princess Thundar.
* When ''TheSimpsons'' puts their cast members in another story to parody the original, occasionally Lisa will be given a role that was originally male. For instance Lisa was given equivalent roles for SherlockHolmes, Johnny Appleseed, and {{Amadeus}} (as Sally Eri).
* The CGI ''RupertTheBear'' cartoon flipped Ping Pong and Ferdy Fox into females. Ferdy was also renamed "Frieda".
* ''MonstersVsAliens'' features a parody of the cliche old B-movie scene where two teenagers pull into "Lover's Lane" only to stumble across supernatural weirdness, with the gender roles reversed: the girl makes the first move and wants to investigate the crashed alien ship, while the guy is nervous about TheirFirstTime, chickens out, and twists his ankle.

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* In the Broadway version of ''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.
* There was a stage play of ''SleepingBeauty'' where the beauty was played by a guy and it was the girl who administered the wake-up kiss.
* Neil Simon's ''The Female [[TheOddCouple Odd Couple]]''.
* ''Errand Into The Maze'' by Martha Graham is a GenderFlip of the [[GreekMythology Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur]], expressing in dance. The creature may or may not [[MindScrew be entirely in her mind, representing Fear]].
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