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While it's not possible to pull off with every trope, as some of them require certain biological features (not that this stops some people; see also Mr. Seahorse), and others are automatically seen in a different light when gender-inverted, (like the Mama Bear and the Papa Wolf, or the Action Girl and the Action Hero), making them an entirely different trope, others are only based on certain generic concepts associated with the gender, and nothing stops the writers from playing with them.

It might be Played for Drama, with people who doubt their own sexuality due to their opposite gender traits, Played for Laughs as a character's unique quirk, or even not intended at all: For example, maybe a writer simply thought that gypsy men are hot, and didn't even realize that Hot Gypsy Woman is a lot more common trope.

Conversely, it can be our own fault, due to Values Dissonance, as our trope definitions are largely based on western and Japanese works, so it is possible that for example an Indian or Latin American show's characters can be only described with our vocabulary as "Like this trope, but male", even though it could be considered a different trope over there, but none of us knows enough about the culture to make a page for it.

In trope lists, it is often referred to as Rare Male Example and Rare Female Example. See also Distaff Counterpart.

Examples:

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Anime and Manga

In Nogizaka Haruka No Himitsu, Shute Sutherland is a Rich Bastard with a Boy Posse, sporting a Nobleman's Laugh.
The relationship between Suzumiya Haruhi and Kyon is sometimes described as Belligerent Sexual Tension, but with a male Tsundere, and a female Jerk.
In Kore wa Zombie desu ka?, the male lead gets Magical Girl powers.
In Iono the Fanatics, the protagonist is a young queen of a foreign country. She likes girls, too: she has 1000 courtesans. She goes so far as to call herself a "skirt chaser".
In Nyarko San, it is the heroine Nyaruko who is the perverted one and the male protagonist Mahiro punishes her for indecent behaviour by stabbing her with a fork, making her bleed and squick.
In Saiyuki, three of the protagonists are a male version of the Three Faces Of Eve: Son Goku (the Child), Cho Hakkai (the Wife) and Sha Gojyo (the Seductress).
In The Weatherman Is My Lover, Amasawa is a Cosplay Otaku Guy.
In Axis Powers Hetalia Poland, Finland, Sealand and Prussia have many characteristics of a Plucky Girl. Albeit their versions are highly flamboyant (Poland), Finland, childish (Sealand) and/or narcissistic (Prussia) ones.
- And let's not forget that Germany and England are male versions of the Tsundere trope.
Brock from the Pok�mon anime is Team Mom supreme. He cooks, cleans, heals injured Pok�mon, and even Ash's mother praises his domestic skills ("He's a better seamstress than I'll ever be"). It's overt from his first episode, as we first see him taking care of his nine brothers and sisters in their parents' absence, and his stated goal is to be a Pok�mon Breeder (one who raises/cares for Pok�mon). Eventually he leaves to become a Pok�mon Doctor.
Kamille Bidan from ZetaGundam and Dilandau Albatou from Vision of Escaflowne are male versions of The Ophelia at some point of the story. They both get better.
- And in the second case, Dilandau actually starts out as a girl.
Ishida and arguably Yumichika from Bleach are also genderflipped Plucky Girls.
There's more than one male Yamato Nadeshiko in manga and anime. Some examples are: Kiminobu Kogure from Slam Dunk; Shouma Takakura from Mawaru-Penguindrum; Japan (obviously) from Axis Powers Hetalia; Haku from Naruto; Yukito Tsukishiro and Fujitaka Kinomoto from Cardcaptor Sakura; Seiichiro Aoki from X/1999; Miyazaki from the Tokyo Babylon OAV, and arguably young!Subaru before it got worse; Taro Misaki from Captain Tsubasa; Tomohisa Kaname from Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Rey from Saint Beast, etc.
Misaki from Hana No Mizo Shiru is an endearingly clumsy boy who initially behaves irritably, but gradually warms up to his love interest over time, acting more shy and easily flustered around him. Said love interest also finds his teary face adorable. Unsurprisingly, he's from a Boys Love manga.
Eco from Plus-Si is a male Kawaiiko.
Night from Absolute Boyfriend is a Magical Boyfriend.
Kuranosuke from Kuragehime is a male Nerd Nanny, and a Manic Pixie Dream Guy.
In Kirby of the Stars, Sirica wants to kill Meta Knight because he killed her mother (the normal version of the trope is later played straight by Knuckle Joe).

Comics

In What Ever Happened To The Man Of Tomorrow, Pete Ross suffers a male version of Stuffed into the Fridge.
Plastic Man is a male version of Absolute Cleavage.

Fan Fiction

In First Try Series, Tetsuo is a male example of Career Versus Man
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic Stallions On Strike is about the 1960s-70s feminist movement with stallions.
Zastruga, a Rise Of The Guardians fanfic, has Jack Frost playing the Boy in the Tower while being held by Pitch. As a further inversion, the "tower" in question stretches down into the ground, rather than rising above it.
Mpreg fanfics automatically by definition gender invert nearly every pregnancy and birth trope in the book.
In Here, There Be Dragons, Bilbo is a Mafia Prince.

Films — Animated

In The Princess and the Frog, Dr. Facilier is a male example of Bare Your Midriff

Literature

Butcher Brakespeare in the Flora Segunda books is a female Exalted Torturer.
Devereaux D'Orsay in The Heir Chronicles is a male version of Daddy's Little Villain.
Draco Malfoy in Harry Potter is a Rich Bastard.

Live-Action TV

In Veronica Mars, Wallace is a male Girl Friday, and Logan often acts as a male Femme Fatale.
In The Brittas Empire, Tim is a Clingy Jealous Guy to Gavin.
One episode of El Chapul�n Colorado featured a House Husband whose life was so similar to a House Wife's it was Played for Laughs. He complained about his wife wanting to watch a game instead of taking him to the movies like she promised; tells her "don't touch me" like some wives usually do on TV while mad at her husbands. When the husband of a former patient of his (he was a gynecologist before becoming a House Husband when his wife started making more money then he did) showed up needing help, Chapulin encouraged him stating he needed to show men could work.
Renn Kousaka/Go-on Blue from Engine Sentai Go-onger, a near-perfect example of a male Yamato Nadeshiko and Team Mom.
Stargate SG-1 gender-flips Belligerent Sexual Tension with Vala Mal Doran as a Jerk with a Heart of Gold and Daniel Jackson as a Type B Tsundere.
Austin & Ally gender-flips the P.O.V. Boy, Poster Girl trope. Ally is the POV Girl, while Austin is the Poster Boy that drives the plot along.
Power Rangers Operation Overdrive has a male example of My Biological Clock Is Ticking.

Videogames

In Chrono Trigger, there seems to be a gender-inverted variant of Wife Husbandry going on between Ayla and Kino. See character page for details...
In Team Fortress 2, thanks to Australium, Australian women have Badass Moustaches.
Thanks partially to the fact that Falena is ruled by Queens rather than Kings, many tropes are gender inverted in Suikoden V. Bodyguard Crush, Brotherhood of Funny Hats, White-Haired Pretty Girl, and White-Haired Pretty Boy all have gender inversions in this game.
Tales Of Symphonia Dawn Of The New World has Emil, a male Shrinking Violet.
There are some males from Fire Emblem who are White Magician Dudes: Corple and his expy Sharlow from Seisen no Keifu, Sleuf from Thracia 776, Saul from Binding Blade, Moulder from Sacred Stones, and Rhys from Path of Radiance.
- Fire Emblem Awakening offers another White Magical Boy in the form of Brady, but due to the reclass system, he doesn't have to remain one. FE: A also gives a rare A-Grade Zettai Ryouiki in the form of Krom/Chrome, who also dons Thigh-High Boots. Naturally, he's a Memetic Sex God.
In Boktai, Sabata is a Dark Magical Boy.
In Super Paper Mario, Luigi is a male Apocalypse Maiden.

Webcomics

From Homestuck, John's relationship with Vriska could be seen as a gender-flipped version of the 'Jerk with a Heart of Gold Antivillain Woobie meets eternally-optimistc good girl who redeems him'' trope. If so, it's ultimately subverted, though, when Vriska meets Death By Redemption and John later admits that in retrospect Vriska was just kind of crazy. That this particular relationship was especially good at inciting a Broken Base may or may not be relevant.

Western Animation

In Avatar The Last Airbender, Aang is the male equivalent of a Magical Girlfriend who fights using She-Fu. Meanwhile, Toph the Big Guy is a 12-year-old blind girl.
During the episode in Yukon of Total Drama World Tour, Noah receives a Marshmallow Hell from Owen, after Bridgette didn't let him hug her.
- Eva as a character is a rare female Jerk Jock who's not a Straw Feminist.
A gender-inversion of I Have You Now, My Pretty in Galaxy Rangers. The Queen is delighted when she finally has Zachary in her clutches, and even Word Of God was commenting about the "S&M overtones."
In The Legend Of Zelda, Spryte is a Beautiful Lech.
Animaniacs, the show that introduced us to Hello, Nurse!, also had a Spear Counterpart of the trope for Dot.
In Biker Mice From Mars, Dr Carbunkle is a male version of Combat Stilettos (he wears boots with stiletto heels).

Real Life

It has been suggested that the Mr. Fanservice appeal of many male soccer player uniforms, which involves a small piece of bare thigh between the socks and the shorts, might be based on the same principle as the female Zettai Ryouiki trope.

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Trope Tropes

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alternative title(s): Rare Male Example; Rare Female Example; Gender Inverted Example; Gender Inverted

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