Basic Trope: When receiving super powers, a character goes through a Gender Bender event.
- Straight: Mike receives super powers, and becomes Michelle as a direct result.
- Exaggerated: The average-Joe Mike receives super powers, and becomes the world's-most-desired-woman Michelle as a result. Yay!
- Downplayed: Mike receives super powers, a side effect of which turns him androgynous.
- Justified:
- Those who can bear these superpowers are Always Female (like Valkyries.)
- The Green Rock that effects this power also floods the body with female / male hormones, potentially turning its user into the opposite sex.
- Mike is actually a trans woman and the source of “his” powers transforms the host into an idealized version of themself.
- Inverted:
- Mike loses his powers when a spell turns him into Michelle.
- Or, Mike gets turned into Michelle and doesn't get superpowers, but then gets superpowers from some other source and can turn back to male using them.
- Subverted: It's told that the powers Mike is about to receive will change his gender, but after receiving them, he is still a boy...
- Double Subverted:
- The gender alteration was a delayed effect.
- "Mike" was already Michelle in disguise. Mike didn't appear to change, but he/she is no longer wearing a disguise.
- Parodied: Mike gains powers after a perfectly mundane (if easy) sexual reassignment surgery Gone Horribly Wrong.
- Zig Zagged: Michelle/Mike keeps changing back and forth between her/his female and male forms, getting different superpowers for each form.
- Averted: No one changes gender upon receiving powers.
- Enforced: Michelle is a Wish-Fulfillment/Escapist Character made by a Transgender author.
- Lampshaded:
- "I received new powers and became a girl. Go figure."
- "Look at you... Blessed with power and beauty, and still you find a reason to complain! Seriously Michelle: What. The. Hell!"
- Invoked: A transgender person seeks an Enigmatic Empowering Entity to bestow upon them exactly this kind of power. Double profit!
- Exploited: Michelle starts dating one of his lesbian classmates/workmates/other.
- Defied: Mike has a super power that turns him into a girl if overused, he makes sure to never cross that limit.
- Discussed: "Well, that's one good reason not to abuse my powers. Or two, I guess."
- Conversed: "If they were trying to give the superpower thing a drawback by turning him into a woman, I'm not sure it worked."
- Deconstructed: Michelle has to deal with suddenly becoming a girl, and all the troubles that comes with it (ID, social security, social issues, hormones, periods...), as well as all the troubles that comes with being a Super Hero.
- Reconstructed:
- While these issues are stressful at first, Michelle manages to adjust and come to term with her new body.
- Michelle has some trouble adjusting to her new gender, but it's relatively minor. Adjusting to being responsible for the safety of the world, on the other hand, takes a heavier toll... And one that wouldn't be any easier if there were no gender-bending involved.
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