1 | '''Basic Trope''': In fiction, people who change genders tend to take on stereotypes of their new gender. |
2 | * '''Straight''': |
3 | ** [[GenderBender Bob becomes a girl]], and immediately starts wearing a dress. |
4 | ** Alice becomes a boy, and immediately signs up for the football team. |
5 | * '''Exaggerated''': |
6 | ** Bob becomes a girl, and immediately turns into a GirlyGirl. |
7 | ** A team of manly football players are turned into women, and they immediately put on frilly dresses and throw a princess-themed tea party. |
8 | ** Alice becomes a boy, and enlists in the army to engage in mass TestosteronePoisoning. |
9 | * '''Downplayed''': |
10 | ** Formerly male Bob’s sex drive is a bit lower and/or she's slightly more emotional(ly expressive), but otherwise maintains the same personality and interests. |
11 | ** Formerly female Alice is more perverted than before and/or slightly more stoic or aggressive, but other-wise maintains the same interests & personality. |
12 | * '''Justified''': |
13 | ** The gender-bending magic includes a compulsion to act the gender. |
14 | ** Bob is deliberately following gender stereotypes in an effort not to stick out like a sore thumb. (How successful these attempts are may vary wildly.) |
15 | ** Bob is taking advantage of being a woman by doing things he'd usually get made fun of for if he was still a guy. |
16 | ** Alice is taking advantage of her new status as a male and finally being taken seriously in her society, thus doing things that she wouldn't be able to get away with if she were still a woman. |
17 | ** Alice was TheLadette or a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak and now that she's a he, those behaviors no longer stand out. |
18 | * '''Inverted''': |
19 | ** Bob becomes a girl, and immediately starts watching football wearing boxer shorts and scratching herself... which she didn't do when she was a guy. |
20 | ** Alice becomes a boy, and becomes interested in very girly things such as fashion designing, which he had no interest in when he was a girl. |
21 | * '''Subverted''': Bob becomes a girl, tries out a feminine life, and decides that he dislikes it. |
22 | * '''Double Subverted''': |
23 | ** Bob becomes a girl, and refuses to change his dress in any way. However, it is later shown that in private, she is dressing up in frilly clothing[=/=]moonlighting at the local strip club[=/=]dating someone. |
24 | ** Alice becomes a boy, and acts the same way she used to so that her friends won't feel alienated from her. Underground, he's the [[ManlyMan macho man]] superhero who fights crime in the name of all things masculine. |
25 | * '''Parodied''': |
26 | ** Bob becomes a girl, and immediately starts acting like a GirlyGirl. '''Badly.''' |
27 | ** Alice becomes a boy, and enlists in the army to engage in mass TestosteronePoisoning. He fails [[IBrokeANail miserably]] |
28 | * '''Zig Zagged''': |
29 | ** Bob constantly switches between genders, instantly switching from a macho man to a girly girl inconsistently. |
30 | ** Bob becomes a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak. |
31 | ** Multiple people are [[GenderBender genderbent]]. Some act accordingly, some don't. |
32 | * '''Averted''': Bob becomes a girl, and doesn't act any different in her new body. |
33 | * '''Enforced''': "Well, ViewersAreMorons, so it's probably better to just make her, you know, act like a girl." |
34 | * '''Lampshaded''': "Aw crap, I'm a girl now. Quick, someone point me to the nearest dress and copy of ''Cosmo''." |
35 | * '''Invoked''': Bob becomes a girl, and actively tries to learn more about the female condition. |
36 | * '''Exploited''': Alice becomes a boy so that he will be easy to {{distract|edByTheSexy}} when the BigBad's EvilPlan comes into operation. |
37 | * '''Defied''': |
38 | ** "Aw man, I'm going to have to learn how to wear heels and everything, right? You know what? Screw that. I'm gonna be a {{tomboy}}." |
39 | ** "So now that I'm a guy I have to not shower, work in construction and do nothing at home but watch baseball games all week? Yeah, like that'll ever happen." |
40 | * '''Discussed''': "He's a girl now, huh? That means he has to learn how to cook, right? Hey, stop hitting me!" |
41 | * '''Conversed''': "Ok, have these writers ever heard of the term 'tomboy'? Why in the world does every gender bent kid turn into Little Miss Cheerleader?" |
42 | * '''Deconstructed''': |
43 | ** Bob becomes a girl, and subconsciously takes on some classical feminine traits. However, it is shown that it was because he was sexist to begin with. |
44 | ** Bob becomes a girl and begins acting in stereotypically feminine ways, then realizes what is happening and stops it. |
45 | * '''Reconstructed''': Bob becomes a girl, and takes upon newly appropriate gender stereotypes. However, upon changing back, he gains a new respect for the other gender, as well as a new understanding of his ''own'' gender stereotypes. Oh, and he never forgets to put the toilet seat down again. |
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49 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
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51 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
52 | %%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ??? |
53 | %%* '''Played For Laughs''': ??? |
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