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9->'''Rin:''' Why are you a woman?\
10'''''Sir'' Francis Drake:''' Well, I started growing breasts when I was thirteen and then...\
11'''Rin:''' Not remotely what I meant!
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14This character is supposed to be [[HistoricalDomainCharacter a recognisable figure from history]], but diverges in one notable way: [[GenderFlip their gender]].
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16InUniverse explanations for this vary. Sometimes "Alice" [[SweetPollyOliver disguised herself]] as "Aleister" or [[DisguisedInDrag vice versa]], sometimes the details were [[GossipEvolution lost over time]] or [[OrwellianRetcon covered up for political reasons]], and sometimes it's just an AlternateUniverse where the figure is replaced by a DistaffCounterpart or SpearCounterpart. UrbanFantasy has its own variant where history is unaltered, but the character is {{Reincarnat|ion}}ed in the modern day as the opposite sex.
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18Can be used to "spice up" a [[HistoricalFiction historical tale]] with new possibilities for character relationships, [[JackieRobinsonStory extra challenges]] for the protagonist to overcome... or just {{Fanservice}}. It can also happen as a side-effect of [[CompositeCharacter combining the roles of two or more people together]]. In extreme cases just about ''everyone'' in the story is like this, usually for the sake of creating an ImprobablyFemaleCast.
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20Since a primary advantage of using this trope is its ability to prevent male-dominated ChromosomeCasting, as exemplified by most of the examples on this page alone, in published works this trope is almost AlwaysFemale, likely due to the vast number of prominent male historical figures. Male examples do exist but they're exceedingly rare.
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22This is a SubTrope of HistoricalDomainCharacter and GenderFlip. Frequently overlaps with BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy, HistoricalBeautyUpdate (due to AttractiveBentGender) and SheIsTheKing. Not to be confused with CrossCastRole.
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24This may go hand-in-hand with HistoricalRelationshipOverhaul.
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31* ''Anime/BattleGirlsTimeParadox'' is set in an AlternateUniverse JidaiGeki where all the notable figures exist but [[OneGenderRace there are no men]].
32* ''Manga/BungoStrayDogs'' has several male writers in real life portrayed as girls/women.
33* ''Anime/{{Classicaloid}}'', a comedy series about [[{{Reincarnation}} reincarnating]] famous composers into [[ArtificialHuman new bodies]], genderbends Music/FranzLiszt and Music/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky into a mature woman and teenage girl respectively. Liszt doesn't seem to mind this change and indulges in {{Fanservice}}, while Tchaiko absolutely hates it - often reverting into a "old man" personality.
34* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' goes for the DistaffCounterpart route with [[UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein Nina Einstein]], though it's not obvious for a while - [[spoiler:she invents an atomic bomb, which is basically TheThemeParkVersion of AlbertEinstein's accomplishments]].
35* ''Manga/IkkiTousen'' is a retelling of ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'' which falls somewhere between {{Reincarnation}} and GenerationXerox.
36* Ikaros Publishing released in 2012 the controversial artwork ''[[http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2012/12/03/infamous-world-leaders-reimagined-as-moe-characters Nyotaika!! Dictator Biographies in the World]]'', which represents infamous dictators from 20th century as [[MoeAnthropomorphism cute and/or sexy girls]] accompanied with their biographies.
37* The Egyptian deity Wenet is a seldom mentioned hare-headed goddess sometimes associated with fertility. The deity Wenet in ''Anime/OhSuddenlyEgyptianGod'' is similar, except here he's depicted as male instead of female, and he has a male voice actor.
38* This is the entire point of ''Manga/OokuTheInnerChambers'', a historical alternate universe where an even-more virulent version of smallpox kills practically every man in seventeenth-century Japan and various historical figures are replaced by female versions. [[spoiler:This tendency carries on well into the 19th century after the pox is eradicated by a vaccine.]]
39* A manga called ''[[http://myanimelist.net/manga/67315/Shiroi_Majo/ Shiroi Majo]]'' was released in 2014 which features Simo Häyhä in the middle of the Winter War in 1939. Just one slight difference from reality: "Simo Häyhä" is [[GenderFlip a teenage girl]] who looks [[{{Expy}} outrageously similar]] to [[Literature/SwordArtOnline Sinon]].
40* ''Anime/StrikeWitches'' is an AlternateUniverse version of UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo, with the protagonists taking names and traits from (mostly male) {{Ace Pilot}}s.
41* In ''Manga/UQHolder'', Karin is actually a gender flipped version of [[spoiler:[[Literature/TheBible Judas Iscariot]], Jesus' betrayer]].
42* An InUniverse example happens in ''Manga/YonaOfTheDawn'', in which Hiryuu, the legendary first king of Kouka, reincarnated into the young princess Yona that changed her from a RoyalBrat into a [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething Royal Who Actually Does Something]] during the series to the point of starting her own revolution to get her kingdom back as Hiryuu did once.
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46* In the AlternateUniverse of ''ComicBook/ExitStageLeftTheSnagglepussChronicles'', historical personage Roy Cohn is replaced by a woman, Gigi Allen.
47* A throwaway line in one issue of ''Comicbook/{{Exiles}}'' has Earth-187319 Reed Richards say he was a huge fan of the [[Creator/MarxBrothers Marx Sisters]] before Dr Doom outlawed comedy.
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51* In ''Fanfic/FateOfTheClans'' we have Mordred, the clone of the ''female'' King Arthur.
52* ''Webcomic/FateGamersOnly'': Lampshaded when Rikku meets the female Francis Drake as the third gender flip she's met after Artoria (King Arthur) and Altera (Attila the Hun).
53-->'''Rikku''': "At this point, I am convinced that there's some kind of malicious entity that is intentionally reaching back in time and genderbending historical figures for its own amusement."
54* ''Fanfic/FateHaremAntics'':
55** In addition to the many canon ''Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}'' examples, there is a very strange version with Shielder. She is a woman, but is soon revealed to be Sir Galahad, one of King Arthur's most famous knights. The odd part is that in ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', Shielder is Mash Kyrielight (female), an artificial Servant borrowing the powers and legends of Sir Galahad (male). In this fic, the two are combined so that Galahad was always female, and has Mash's appearance and personality. King Arthur recognizes her on sight, so it's definitely not one of the oddities of the Grail.
56** King Arthur herself is a woman and comments she hid her gender in life, so she's not particularly surprised that historians never discovered the truth.
57** As in canon, Sir Francis Drake is female here, and Rin lampshades the absurdity of it. In particular, Drake was married ''twice''; how did she keep her gender hidden from her wives? Drake smirks and says they knew, [[LoveableSexManiac but she persuaded them it was in their best interests not to tell]].
58** Fiore and her peers are surprised to learn Oda Nobunaga is a woman. As in canon, no real explanation is ever provided. Apparently she openly ruled as a woman and for some reason history recorded her as a man.
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62* ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemistTheConquerorOfShamballa'' turns [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Eckart Dietrich Eckhart]] into a woman named Dietlinde Eckhart.
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66* ''Literature/TheAmbitionOfOdaNobuna'' involves a UsefulNotes/SengokuPeriod universe where equal primogeniture was widely used. Because of this, many, but not all, of the big names of that era are female in this series, for example UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga (i.e. the titular Nobuna), UsefulNotes/TokugawaIeyasu, UsefulNotes/AkechiMitsuhide, UsefulNotes/DateMasamune, etc.
67* ''Boku to Tsundere to Heidegger'' depicts famous European philosophers as high-school girls.
68* ''Literature/TheGraceOfKings'' and its sequels are made up of characters who are mostly counterparts of historical figures connected with the founding of China's Han dynasty, with the first book being about the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chu%E2%80%93Han_Contention Chu-Han Contention]], and the second about the aftermath of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Gaozu_of_Han Liu Bang]], called Kuni Garu in the novel, gaining the throne. One of Kuni's allies is the street rat turned general Gin Mazoti, who is a gender-flipped version of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Xin Han Xin]], whose backstory is essentially identical to that of the historical figure (or at least legends about him), except for an added element of SweetPollyOliver.
69* "Once and Future" by Creator/TerryPratchett is about a time traveller called Mervin realising that he's at the beginning of the Myth/{{Arthurian|Legend}} era and in the perfect position to be Merlin. It ends with the youth who pulled the sword from the stone (an electromagnet controlled by Mervin) removing ''her'' hood, and Mervin frantically trying to remember if Nimue ever actually told him the sex of Uther's lost heir. (She didn't, probably on purpose.)
70* ''Once and Future'' by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori [=McCarthy=] is a SpaceOpera in which refugee Ari Helix discovers she's the 42nd reincarnation of King Arthur, and Merlin is utterly bewildered because Arthur has never reincarnated as female before. As it turns out, this is plot relevant: [[spoiler:The first step in breaking the cycle is Ari talking Morgana into a HeelFaceTurn by empathizing with her over Uther's rape of her mother. Previous Arthurs were utterly dismissive of her claims or else [[DeliberateValuesDissonance didn't care]], but she took the chance with Ari because she believed that another woman might listen to her.]]
71* ''Literature/SamuraiGirls'' is a "JidaiGeki figures [[{{Reincarnation}} reincarnated]] in the modern world" example... but it's an AlternateUniverse where modern Japan still looks like JidaiGeki.
72* In ''Literature/UlyssesJeanneDArcAndTheAlchemistKnights'', Arthur de Richemont, Philip of Burgundy, La Hire and Charlotte de Valois are all gender flips of characters from UsefulNotes/TheHundredYearsWar. Considering it is from the same author as ''The Ambition of Oda Nobuna'' above, is no surprise.
73* Santiago Posteguillo's ''Literature/AfricanusTrilogy'' changes King Gaia of Numidia into ''Queen'' Gala of Numidia. The flip is minor, as Gala is effectively TheGhost in the story, but it still stands out.
74* ''Literature/TheConquerorsSaga'' is AlternateHistory where UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler was a girl. The misogyny of her time adds considerable difficulties towards her journey to the throne of Wallachia, which she tends to overcome through sheer [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice brutality]].
75* ''Literature/LordElMelloiIICaseFiles'': As a Nasuverse property, it shouldn't be surprising that this comes up.
76** First off, Gray is (vastly simplifying the situation) an attempt to create a copy of King Arthur. Kairi Sisigou assumes something went wrong with the process or it was incorrectly applied to a female, but Waver explains that King Arthur was always a woman.
77** Faker introduces herself (before giving her class name, in fact) as Hephaestion, the childhood friend of Iskandar. Hephaestion was of course male in real life. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope However]], it turns out she's not really Hephaestion, but his twin sister who was NeverGivenAName. Her role in life was to serve as the king's BodyDouble, letting any curses directed at him hit her instead. Because of this, as a Servant she can use all of Iskandar's abilities]].
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81* ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'':
82** In the third series, Blackadder writes a novel under a female pseudonym and mentions that most of the famous "female" authors of the period, including Creator/JaneAusten and Dorothy Wordsworth, are doing the same: "James Boswell is the only real woman writing at the moment, and that's only because she wants to get inside Johnson's britches."
83** The fourth series includes a sexual-orientation version: Creator/OscarWilde is mentioned as being a huge, bearded man, the father of hordes of illegitimate children and the author of a treatise called Why I Like To Do It With Girls. It was only down to an Amoral Attorney that he was convicted for homosexuality.
84* ''Series/DoctorWho'': [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E6Extremis "Extremis"]] reveals that Pope Benedict IX was actually a woman, who the Doctor claims could do naughty things with castanets, in a clear reference to the legendary "Pope Joan". [[spoiler:However, the episode is revealed to be almost entirely a computer simulation. ''But'', as the simulation's creators tried to make it as realistic as possible, the claims about Benedict IX could still be true InUniverse.]]
85* ''Series/DrunkHistory'' has Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr being portrayed by females, with no attempt to hide it. This is of course primarily RuleOfFunny as it makes the circumstances of Aaron Burr's death about ten times more ridiculous than they already were.
86* In ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS2E12Camelot3000 Camelot/3000]]" has two of these. Stargirl having traveled back to Camelot is revealed to actually have become Myth/{{Merlin}}. In addition, while most of the Arthurian figures are present, there is a noticeable absence of Lancelot, that is until Guinevere says to Sara "I enjoyed meeting you, Sara Lance-a-lot", revealing Sara to be the inspiration for the legendary knight who wooed Arthur's wife.
87* In the ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode "Parallel Universe" the protagonists come across a gender-flipped reality where the first person to walk on the moon was Nellie Armstrong, the most famous writer was Wilma Shakespeare (whose plays included ''Rachel the Third''), and an influence on the "masculist" movement of the '60s (when they burned their jockstraps) was Jeremy Greer, who wrote ''The Male Eunuch''.
88* ''Series/Warehouse13'' does this with H.G. Wells. Not only is the famous writer made female, but she is also a MadScientist who actually invented quite a few of the devices featured in the books, with her brother Charles acting as H.G. Wells in public.
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92* Music/{{Buttress}}: In "Brutus", she reinterprets Marcus Junius Brutus as a woman, with all of it'd imply in the very misogynistic Roman society. As a result, her motivations for murdering Julius Caesar expand from just feeling lesser due to humble origins to a matter of dignity and gender inequality.
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96* Ride/DisneyThemeParks: Invoked in Franchise/TheMuppets' ''Great Moments in American History'' show. Miss Piggy is incensed that there isn't a female role for her, so she takes on the role of King George (or, rather, Queen Georgette).
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100* Creator/MurasakiShikibu in ''VideoGame/AkaSeka'' is a young man who takes an inverse MoustacheDePlume to better promote his literature.
101* ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'' applies this trope to the BeastOfTheApocalypse, being female despite being referred to as male in the Literature/BookOfRevelation. Justified, however, since this version of the Beast is the final form of [[AbusiveParents Isaac's Mother]] taking on the form of The Beast after [[MixAndMatchCritters possibly fusing with]] {{Satan}}, [[ZigZaggingTrope and downplayed]] in that it's [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane likely]] not the actual Beast, and is just Isaac's imagination.
102* ''VideoGame/DragaliaLost'' {{downplay|edTrope}}s this with three of the Hinomoto Wyrmclan Lords, since they are named after their ancestors regardless of gender.
103** Nobunaga of the Horse Clan is based on UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga who takes on her historical counterpart's BloodKnight tendencies.
104** Mitsuhide of the Mouse Clan is named after UsefulNotes/AkechiMitsuhide who when she's not being a {{Sleepyhead}} LazyBum, she's still a skilled tactician... at BEING a LazyBum! Her dialogue has references to her historical counterpart's Honnoji Incident.
105** Yoshitsune of the Rooster Clan is named after UsefulNotes/MinamotoNoYoshitsune, and her immortality is based on a rumor that the original Yoshitsune did not commit {{seppuku}} but rather escaped Japan to become UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan.
106* In the [[Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms Three Kingdoms Era]] of ''VideoGame/InazumaEleven GO 2: Chrono Stone'', when the heroes finally meet [[spoiler:Zhuge Liang]] she turns out to be a woman.
107* ''VideoGame/NamuAmidaButsuUtena'': Ashuku Nyorai (Akṣobhya) is a [[AmbiguousGenderIdentity possibly trans]] woman, while Konjikikujaku-ō (Mahāmāyūrī) is a PrincelyYoungMan.
108* ''VideoGame/{{Onmyoji|2016}}'': Tamamo no Mae is a drop-dead handsome {{Bishonen}} and Enma, ruler of Buddhist Hell, is a queenly woman.
109* Magoichi Saika is depicted in ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' as a red haired woman. In this case, "Magoichi Saika" [[LegacyCharacter is the title worn by the current leader of the Saika faction]]. Magoichi is proud to announce that she's the first woman to carry the mantle.
110* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'':
111** Toyosatomimi no Miko is a [[OurLichesAreDifferent shikaisen]] version of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Shotoku Prince Shotoku]]. Why the history books record her as a man is unexplained, though [[{{Doylist}} it should be noted]] that ''Touhou'' has an ImprobablyFemaleCast.
112** Hieda no Akyuu is a milder example - she's the latest "Child of Miare", a line of {{Reincarnation}}s of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieda_no_Are Hieda no Are]], but the only memories of his that she retains are scholarly knowledge. Possibly inspired by theories that Are was actually a woman.
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116* ''VideoGame/EiyuuSenkiTheWorldConquest'' and its sequel apply this trope to all sorts of famous generals and rulers in history all over the world. Notably, all the {{mooks}} are also female, implying that women fighting and leading is seen as more "natural" there, though the protagonist doesn't face much discrimination for being a man, and it's generally pretty silly and lighthearted anyway. [[spoiler: Things don't necessarily make much sense because Nyarlathotep didn't put much thought into her "toybox" while stringing it together]].
117* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' has the most famous/notorious example of this, wherein the female Saber's ([[ItWasHisSled now very well known]]) true identity is a gender-flipped Myth/KingArthur, commonly known as Artoria Pendragon. The success of the VN led to the sprawling ''Franchise/FateSeries'', encompassing various media, and gender-flipping famous historical and/or legendary figures has for better or worse become one of the series's hallmarks.
118** Saber's character is thoroughly explored in different ways in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' and the prequel ''Literature/FateZero''. It should be noted that she is quite insistent [[SheIsTheKing on being called "king,"]] and spent most of her life doing everything she could to ignore or hide her female gender. Due to sexism, she didn't have much choice. A relatively small core of her inner circle knew the truth, including Merlin, Lancelot, Gawain, Guinevere, and her older foster brother Kay. Certainly puts a different spin on Lancelot and Guinevere's affair, doesn't it?
119** ''VideoGame/FateEXTRA'' features a gender-flipped version of [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/{{Nero}}]] as the playable Saber. It also has a female [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/FrancisDrake]] as the PirateGirl Rider, originally implied to be Queen Elizabeth in disguise, though later games have dropped that interpretation. ''VideoGame/FateExtellaTheUmbralStar'', the spin-off, added a female version of UsefulNotes/AttilaTheHun ([[spoiler:who was more notably an alien superweapon]]).
120** In ''Literature/FateApocrypha'', Assassin of Black is gender-flipped UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper (though justified as Jack's true identity is unknown, and while Assassin of Black killed prostitutes, she doesn't know for certain if she was Jack due to her vague memories) and Saber of Red is a gender-flipped [[Myth/ArthurianLegend Mordred]] (created through a bizarre set of circumstances involving sorcery who, like her "father," insists on not being treated as female). Non-historically, it also has a gender-flipped [[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Frankenstein's Monster]], because Victor Frankenstein always intended to make a [[AdamAndEvePlot pair]] (instead of being blackmailed by The Creature to make a mate) but just made "Eve" first and was turned off after seeing how she turned out with her wanting him to finish the job. Amusingly, it also features a subversion with Astolfo, who several characters in-universe originally mistake for being female due to both [[DudeLooksLikeALady looks]] and [[{{Keet}} personality]], but he's still a guy, as Jeanne finds out first-hand [[UnsettlingGenderReveal when he comes out of the shower naked with his privates exposed]]. Worth noting is that Astolfo's existence as a gender neutral character is what lead to Modred being made female, so as to avoid having two amibigiously gendered characters.
121** ''Literature/FateStrangeFake'' changes genders without flipping the male/female binary. [[Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh Enkidu]] gets changed from being male to having NoBiologicalSex and an androgynous appearance (depending on the translation, they're given "he" or "they" pronouns). There's also another iteration of Jack the Ripper, this one a personification of Jack's legend; they have no fixed gender, and are able to take the form of anyone or anything that's been identified as Jack, including Assassin of Black.
122** ''Koha-Ace'' features a genderflipped UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga and [[UsefulNotes/TheShinsengumi Okita Souji]]. The rest of the cast retain their historical genders until the introduction of [[UsefulNotes/UesugiKenshin Nagao Kagetora]]. Since it's a gag series, it isn't treated particularly seriously, but Nobunaga has actually been fleshed out a bit more in later, more serious works, where she crushed all dissent through force and ruled openly as a woman, and her downfall came when one of her retainers, Akechi, who was in love with her and envious of her seemingly favoring others, assassinated her out of mad jealousy. It also introduced well in advance the idea that Sun Wukong has the power to [[VoluntaryShapeshifting change his physical gender along with his shape]].
123** ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', having a huge cast compared to most other entries in the franchise, has naturally added many more examples, such as Minamoto-no-Raikou (Yorimitsu) and her descendant Ushiwakamaru (Yoshitsune). As early as the first event, the developers had already begun to parody the trope with [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Artemis]], who originally pretends to be a gender-flipped Orion, and the cast buys it before the ''real'' Orion, whom she's trapped as a stuffed animal, starts to speak up. In fact, gender-flipping historical figures has gotten so common that the franchise has begun to try to be clever about it. UsefulNotes/MiyamotoMusashi is a woman, but she actually comes from an AlternateTimeline while the "main" Nasuverse's Miyamoto Musashi is explicitly referred to as male. Creator/LeonardoDaVinci appears as a woman, but is confirmed to have been male in life; his obsession with aesthetics and the Golden Rule (Beauty) skill altered his appearance and gender into that of the Mona Lisa (not that da Vinci seems to mind). And the original Katsushika Hokusai takes the form of a tiny octopus that floats near his daughter Oui (the "Servant Hokusai" is ''both of them'', since Oui produced some of her own art under her father's name). Xu Fu is a woman and comments that some bureaucrats hated her seemingly for being a woman given the important task of discovering immortality for the emperor and thus wrote her as being a man just to spite her (her own androgynous looks combined with her clothing doesn't hurt either). Van Gogh claims to be a female Creator/VincentVanGogh, but it is noted that the real one was male, with lots of evidence to counter her claim; [[spoiler:she is eventually revealed to be an artificial mashup of Van Gogh's memories and the body and soul of [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Clytie]], created by an EldritchAbomination after the real Van Gogh refused to serve its plans to the point of killing himself.]] Meanwhile, Kiichi Hougen appears to be another genderbent servant, but it turns out that Hougen has [[VoluntaryShapeshifting the ability to shapeshift into different genders]] (in which their gender is listed as unknown instead). Lostbelt 6 introduces GenderFlip and Fairy versions of Lancelot, Gawain, and Tristan that serve Morgan le Fay. [[spoiler:However, they are revealed by the Tristan from Proper Human History to actually be Fairies that have stolen the identities of the real knights]]. Russian folk-hero Dobrynya Nikitich appears as a woman rather than a male, [[spoiler:though it's revealed that like Artemis with Orion, it is actually Dobrynya's wife Nastasia taking over his Spirit Graph when summoned]]. Literature/DonQuixote's squire Sancho Panza is a [[LittleBitBeastly horsegirl]], but rather than being gender-flipped, she's a [[CompositeCharacter composite]] of Don Quixote's supporting cast, including Sancho, Dulcinea, Altisidora, and his horse Rocinante.
124** While she was alluded to and had a voiced cameo prior to her official [[UnseenNoMore reveal]], ''Fate/Grand Order Arcade'' introduces Merlin Prototype, who is a gender-flip of both her male counterpart Merlin from the main game, and also of the mythological figure Merlin who himself was an [[CompositeCharacter amalgamation of different historical and mythological figures]]; in [[Anime/FatePrototype her native universe]], Arthur and Mordred are male, and she's the one who got gender-flipped.
125** The mobile and arcade versions of ''Fate/Grand Order'' are basically {{Alternate Timeline}}s, with one of the differences at first glance being that Jacques de Molay is a male Saber in Arcade and a female Foreigner in Mobile. However, Foreigner Jacques was a man in life, who changed genders post-mortem due to the influence of his patron Outer God, which would point to them actually being different classes of the same Heroic Spirit... if it weren't for the fact Foreigner Jacques asserts she wasn't strong enough to become a Heroic Spirit by herself, and dismisses the idea of her Saber counterpart's existence. What's actually going on with them is currently unknown.
126** The practice in ''Fate/Grand Order'' is {{Justified|Trope}} (and mocked) in the parody manga ''Webcomic/LearningWithMangaFGO'', where the implied reason for the genderflips among the original Servants' ranks is due to the protagonist being a lesbian with a "no boys" policy. This is the origin of the Myth/PaulBunyan servant in the game, who doesn't understand how on earth she became a small girl.
127** ''Literature/FateRequiem'': Erice Utsumi ponders on the series' tendency to have men in history and myth actually be women, using Francis Drake as an example, as all of her contemporaries remember her as either male or female. Erice concludes that Drake's actual gender doesn't really matter, compared to the great feats achieved. So far, the Greek mathematician Euclid has been revealed as a woman.
128* ''VisualNovel/ChuSinGura46Plus1'' is a retelling of UsefulNotes/The47Ronin with most of the ronin as women. It has a fair amount of {{Fanservice}}, but it's also a faithful and accurate depiction of the Ako Vendetta.
129* ''VisualNovel/KamigamiNoAsobi'': [[Myth/JapaneseMythology Amaterasu]], better known by pseudonym ''Akira Totsuka'', is a DudeLooksLikeALady who gets upgraded to selectable love interest for the female protagonist in the second game.
130* ''VisualNovel/KoihimeMusou'' is an all-female version of ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms''. The only historical female-to-male flips in the franchise are Chousen and Himiko, both of which are [[MachoCamp extremely beefy deep-voiced men in microbikinis.]] The first game also featured the Qiao sisters as intersex twins, though they have not returned in subsequent installments. That said, it's also an AlternateUniverse and involves travel across time, space, and parallel realities.
131** The same company that developed ''Koihime†Musou'' also made ''VisualNovel/SengokuKoihime'', which takes this concept and applies it to the UsefulNotes/SengokuPeriod. Unlike ''Koihime†Musou'', there are no female-to-male flips - characters who were female to begin with remain female.
132* In ''VisualNovel/MyVowToMyLiege'', the protagonist Fuchai is not actually a genderflip of the historical King Fuchai of Wu--[[SweetPollyOliver she's actually his sister Tengyu]], an obscure princess who gets exactly one line of mention in the history books for [[LawOfDisproportionateResponse having committed suicide in a rage at the insult of her father offering her a fish dish he'd already eaten half of.]] In the game, however, it's the original Fuchai who's dead after their father's attempt to [[KillTheGod kill a god]] went horribly wrong, forcing the SoleSurvivor Tengyu to inherit the throne under his identity. Her love interest [[LongHairedPrettyBoy Shi Yiguang]] (better known as Xi Shi) and high priest [[DudeLooksLikeALady Zheng Dan]] ''are'' genderflips of Fuchai's historical lovers, however.
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136* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'':
137** Team JNPR is composed of gender-flips of four historical crossdressers: Jaune is a male UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc, Nora is a female [[Myth/NorseMythology Thor]], Pyrrha is a female [[Literature/TheIliad Achilles]], and Ren is a male [[Literature/TheBalladOfMulan Mulan]].
138** Mantle's Happy Huntresses are obviously gender-flips of the Merry Men: Robyn Hill is Robin Hood, Joanna Greenleaf is Little John, Fiona Thyme is Friar Tuck and [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} May Marigold]] is Maid Marian.
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142* The ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'' fan setting ''[[https://www.echoesofthemultiverse.com/viewtopic.php?t=1631 A World Less Magical (But No Less Fantastic)]]'' zig-zags the Gender Flip UsefulNotes/UesugiKenshin often receives by mentioning the theories that Kenshin was a woman, and saying that conventional historians are right to dismiss them; Kenshin was a man. [[https://www.echoesofthemultiverse.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1631&p=165969#p165969 A transgender man who was assigned female at birth.]]
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146* ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'' reveals in the third season that a clone of Jack the Ripper is among the high school's students of clones of historical figures, only it turns out the one who committed the Whitechapel murders was actually the female Jackee the Ripper.
147* In the retelling of the story of Moses on ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', Angelica plays the Pharaoh.
148* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' occasionally does this, for instance, portraying Lisa as "Connie Appleseed" (Johnny Appleseed).
149* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': In "Irrational Treasure", while investigating about the town's foundation, Dipper and Mabel find out about a few ancient national secrets, including that Benjamin Franklin was a woman.
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