Ambiguous Name (Alt names crowner as of 6/21/13): Somethings Different About You Now

Yes, this trope is about meeting someone who had a sex change at a high school reunion.

But the title implies anything. Say that someone does not see someone for a long time. Then they notice that they have changed, maybe a little, maybe a lot. The problem is that the title is not specific to sex changes.

I see some misuse, particularly in one Johnny Bravo example on another trope page and partial misuse in the Truth in Television page. This article needs a title that makes it more clear that it's about sex changes.

Classic Stock Phrase suckitude.

Rename this, pronto.

How much misuse?

From Reunion Revenge:

Because I never watched Johnny Bravo, I'm not too sure about this one, but the example's wording implies that the writer confused it for She Is All Grown Up.

From TruthInTelevision.S-U:

Only one of the possibilities listed applies.

edited 19th May '13 11:28:03 AM by MikuruFan

I've taken a quick scan and these look like the problem usage to me:

• Showa & Vampire
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (?)
• TruthInTelevision.S-U (mentioned)
• Two and a Half Men (?)
• Reunion Revenge (mentioned)
• Magic Plastic Surgery (?)
• Just Shoot Me (ZCE)
• Interstellar Detectives (?)
• Girl In My Dream (ZCE)
• Cyanide and Happiness (URL)
• Chuck
• Becker (ZCE)
• Anyone But Virginia (?)

That's up to 13, out of 45 total pages.

A related Stock Phrase would be No Doubt the Years Have Changed Me, which is the non-TG supertrope.

edited 19th May '13 12:31:00 PM by Stratadrake

Definitely needs a rename. Stock phrases make terrible names.

I just watched that episode. All the more reason to rename.

edited 19th May '13 10:27:09 PM by Rethkir

From playing Guess That Trope Definition, I would've figured this was more along the lines of (from the Firefly episode "Trash") Mal running into an old friend and then noticing something different, not being able to figure out what it is, and then realizing the old friend shaved his beard.

+1 to rename.

Possible trope names:
Gender Bendered Reunion
He'sNowAShe <-> She'sNowAHe (either is too specific, but it gets the point across.)
She Was A Boy <-> He Was A Girl (same problem as before)

edited 20th May '13 7:22:07 AM by Rethkir

Reunion Gender Bender?

@9 would be in the good range for me. @8 still looks like dialogue to me.

I guessed from the name that this was about really huge obvious changes that couldn't possibly be overlooked, such as the friend being replaced by a twelve foot horned ogre, but the speaker just can't seem to place what's different about them. So I'd vote to rename.

I support the rename.

Stat. Do we start a crowner here?

Right now, it's between Gender Bendered Reunion and Reunion Gender Bender. I don't really like my other suggestions, but I wanted to toss them out there because I was thinking about them.

edited 20th May '13 4:00:24 PM by Rethkir

RGB doesn't work. In fact, neither of them really sound right....

It's hard to describe the trope without being awkward and wordy or gender neutral. Maybe:
You Had A Sex Change?

edited 20th May '13 7:54:49 PM by Rethkir

The problem with that is that it's not specific to reunions.

Reunion After The Sex Change?

Close, but it doesn't really have a ring to it.
Gender Bender is actually another trope which it uses Applied Phlebotinum. This applies to Easy Sex Change. (There's no trope for Not So Easy Sex Change.) How about: Reunion After Sex Change. Drops the "the" for better zippynes.

Ohh, you beat me to the edit. We were both thinking that.

edited 21st May '13 7:24:49 AM by Rethkir

Works for me. We can also drop the 'the'.

Old Friend, New Gender?

That's the best one by miles.

OFNG sounds the best to me.

Has my vote.

I tend to roll eyes at any "contrasting pair" trope title.

New Gendered Friend?