| 1 | !GenderFlip example cleanup |
| 2 | |
| 3 | !TO BE MOVED |
| 4 | [[folder:To Rule 63]] |
| 5 | * Gender-flipped versions of the cast of ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'' took the internet by storm, with Kyonko at the center of it all. There are even ongoing fan projects, which can be read at [[http://www.baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=Suzumiya_Haruki_no_Seitenkan Baka-Tsuki]] and at [[http://wiki.sos-dan.com/wiki/Category:Genderbending the SOS-dan wiki]] to ''completely Gender Flip the light novels''. Both were born on this [[http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=63152 Animesuki thread]]. It also has a [[FanFic/SuzumiyaHaruhiNoSeitenkan page on this wiki]]. |
| 6 | ** Similar to the ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'' example above, it's become popular among fans to make male versions of songs from ''Manga/KOn'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2LhKmsy_M0 Here's]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9Ee04NFf74 a few]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I813drN6nI0 examples.]] |
| 7 | [[/folder]] |
| 8 | |
| 9 | [[folder: to Historical Gender Flip]] |
| 10 | [[AC:Anime and Manga]] |
| 11 | * ''Literature/TheAmbitionOfOdaNobuna'' is yet another Gender Flip take on Warring States period, but only ''partially''. For example, [[UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga the eponymous character]] and Imagawa Yoshimoto are female, while Saitou Dousan, Takenaka Hanbei, and Asai Nagamasa remains male. [[spoiler:Actually, the last two are female too: Hanbei uses a male {{Familiar}} to act as her personage, while Nagamasa is being a SweetPollyOliver.]] |
| 12 | * ''Anime/BattleGirlsTimeParadox'' does this for the Sengoku period, the same as ''Koihime'', ''Strike Witches'' and ''Hyakka Ryouran'' |
| 13 | * [[{{Ghostapo}} The Thule Society's]] Dietlinde Eckhart, the BigBad of ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemistTheConquerorOfShamballa'', is based on and named after real life (and male) Thule Society member Dietrich Eckart. |
| 14 | * ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'': [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Kijima Matako and Imai Nobume]] are women, but their original historical counterparts Kijima Matabei and Imai Noburou respectively are male. This also applies to regular character Kyuubei, whose entire gimmick is that she was RaisedAsTheOppositeGender (ending up similar to the gender of her historical counterpart Juubei), and an arc that has her changing to ''match'' that counterpart genderbends everyone else along with her. |
| 15 | * ''Manga/OokuTheInnerChambers'' does this to Shogunate Japan from the reign of Iemitsu on, with three exceptions: the original Shogun Iemitsu, who died young and is replaced by his daughter, who takes on his name and reign, UsefulNotes/The47Ronin, who (mostly) stay all male, and [[spoiler: Shogun Ienari, becoming the first male shogun in decades.]]. |
| 16 | * In ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'', which takes cues from the Myth/KingArthur mythos, Merlin is a young looking woman that wears very revealing clothes. |
| 17 | * 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.]] |
| 18 | * ''Anime/StrikeWitches'', which features gender flipped versions of real life WWII {{Ace Pilot}}s. |
| 19 | * Hanako from ''Manga/ToiletBoundHanakoKun'' is a male version of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanako-san Hanako-san]], a well-known Japanese urban legend. |
| 20 | * In ''Literature/UlyssesJeanneDArcAndTheAlchemistKnights'', Arthur de Richemont, Philip of Burgundy, La Hire and Charlotte de Valois are all gender flips of historical characters from UsefulNotes/TheHundredYearsWar. Considering it is from the same author as ''The Ambition of Oda Nobuna'' above, is no surprise. |
| 21 | * Chapter 109 of ''Manga/UQHolder'' revealed that Karin is actually a female version of [[spoiler: Judas Iscariot]]. |
| 22 | |
| 23 | [[/folder]] |
| 24 | |
| 25 | [[folder:to GenderBent Alternate Universe]] |
| 26 | [[AC:Anime and Manga]] |
| 27 | * One chapter/episode of ''Manga/{{ARIA}}'' featured President Aria ending up in a world where the gender of everyone in the cast was flipped, but their names remained the same. Everybody also still behaves exactly the same as before. [[AllJustADream President Aria wakes up]] thinking that this alternate world may have been just a dream, [[OrWasItADream but then he sees his female otherworld self smiling at him through the mirror]]... |
| 28 | * ''Manga/FairyTail'': has a parallel world where they manage to make use of this without any adaptions. The Hughes they fought in the parallel world was a guy, but the one who they later meet in their own world is female. A more traditional variant happens later on when |
| 29 | |
| 30 | [[AC:Comic Books]] |
| 31 | * In TheMultiverse of Franchise/TheDCU, Earth-11 is an AlternateUniverse where all the genders are flipped. Thus you have [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Superwoman]] and [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Superlad]], [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Batwoman]], Alexis Luthor, [[Franchise/WonderWoman Wonder Man]] (or Wonder Warrior, depending on your sources), and so on. |
| 32 | * ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity'': |
| 33 | ** One of the major characters is Aquawoman, the ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} analog of Earth-11. |
| 34 | ** Blitzen, ComicBook/TheFlash of Earth-10 from ''The Multiversity: Mastermen #1'', is female. |
| 35 | * In ''ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal'', the Dark Multiverse's Earth -11, home of the Drowned, is also a GenderFlip world. |
| 36 | * Similarly, some ''ComicBook/{{Exiles}}'' stories had the team visit worlds with gender-flipped versions of Marvel heroes. The most prominent example would be the team's version of Sunfire, who had the civilian identity of Mariko Yashida rather than Shiro Yoshida. |
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| 38 | [[AC:Fan Works]] |
| 39 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3894793/1/Harry-Potter-and-the-Distaff-Side Harry Potter and the Distaff Side]]'' drops the "real" Harry Potter into an alternate dimension where *everyone* has been gender-flipped, including himself. |
| 40 | * ''FanFic/OnACrossAndArrow'' features the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Mane 6]] ending up in an alternate world where ''everyone'' is gender-flipped, and thus they encounter their male counterparts. This fic proved to be so popular that the six stallion versions of the Mane 6 became their [[{{Fanon}} go-to names for gender-flips]] within the fandom (Dusk Shine for Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Blitz for Rainbow Dash, Bubble Berry for Pinkie Pie, Butterscotch for Fluttershy, and Elusive for Rarity, while Applejack is the same regardless). |
| 41 | [[/folder]] |
| 42 | |
| 43 | [[folder:To Divine Race Lift]] |
| 44 | * ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' depicts the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl as a large-breasted woman. |
| 45 | * In ''Anime/SevenMortalSins'', all the angel and devil characters like Lucifer and Michael are female. |
| 46 | * Aither, in the original Greek mythology, is male. In the ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh OCG'', Aither is female. This makes sense, if they want a contrast between the ruler of Heaven and the ruler of the Underworld. |
| 47 | [[/folder]] |
| 48 | |
| 49 | [[folder:Gender Inversions of traditionally gendered premises]] |
| 50 | [[AC:Anime and Manga]] |
| 51 | * ''Anime/CodeGeass'': Kallen Kouzuki is who is a gender flipped version of your standard SuperRobot HotBlooded AcePilot, who also has a BodyguardCrush on her boss. She makes it really obvious with her lines too. '''RareFemaleExample of ... something, StockShonenHero maybe? And crossdressing''' |
| 52 | --> '''Kallen''':''If only you had justice!'' |
| 53 | * [[TheHero The Battle Lovers]] and [[PrecursorHeroes Maximum Gorar]] from ''Anime/CuteHighEarthDefenseClubLove'' are basically [[MagicalGirlWarrior Magical Boy Warriors]] and [[TakeOverTheWorld Caerula Adamas]] and [[PolarOppositeTwins team VEPPer]] are basically [[DarkMagicalGirl Dark Magical Boys]].[[spoiler:..until their respective {{Heel Face Turn}}s, that is]]. |
| 54 | * ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'' is a Gender Flip of an ActionGirlfriend series: Kaname Chidori takes the place of the not-so-ordinary AudienceSurrogate and eventual ActionSurvivor, while Sousuke serves as the attractive and highly skilled but [[NoSocialSkills extremely socially inept]] [[BodyguardCrush bodyguard[=/=]love interest]] that enters her life and changes it forever. |
| 55 | * ''Anime/MyHime'' has a bit of this. Tate Yuuichi, the only [[KendoTeamCaptain masculine]] male protagonist in the show, is constantly frustrated by the fact that he's [[DistressedDude completely helpless]] compared to all the {{Magical Girl}}s despite his (rusty) kendo skills (which would make him a BadassNormal in other shows), and even ''gets told so to his face'' when he finally figures out the {{Masquerade}}. |
| 56 | * ''Manga/MagicalGirlOre'' flips the SuperGenderBender flavor of MagicalGirlWarrior: the cute girls in frills are the starting point, while the tough, masculine beefcakes are the transformations. |
| 57 | * The josei manga ''Manga/PrivatePrince'' is a complete gender flip of the WellExcuseMePrincess trope: here we have a ''prince'' and a commoner ''girl'' falling victim to BelligerentSexualTension. |
| 58 | |
| 59 | [[AC:Fairy Tales]] |
| 60 | * ''Literature/MollyWhuppie'' is classified among the tales of the type "The Small ''Boy'' Defeats the Ogre", like ''Literature/HopOMyThumb''. |
| 61 | * In ''Literature/TheRoseTree'', the [[WickedStepmother stepchild]] is a girl, unlike most variants of this tale, such as ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/47junipertree.html The Juniper Tree]]''. |
| 62 | * The Literature/{{Child Ballad|s}} ''Literature/TheLordOfLornAndTheFalseSteward'' features a hero in a tale normally told with a heroine, such as ''Literature/TheGooseGirl''. |
| 63 | * ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/jacobs/english/fishring.html The Fish and the Ring]]'' features a poor girl [[SelfFulfillingProphecy destined]] to marry a rich boy, instead of the usual poor boy destined to marry a rich girl. |
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| 65 | |
| 66 | [[/folder]] |
| 67 | |
| 68 | [[folder:Other misuse]] |
| 69 | * ''Anime/CodeGeass'': |
| 70 | ** In Picture Drama 07, Ashford apparently has a "Cross-dressing festival". Cue Suzaku in a [[SailorFuku sailor uniform]], Rival as a maid with oversized breasts, and Lelouch is [[AttractiveBentGender disturbingly]] [[GorgeousPeriodDress convincing]]... Of course, the fans love it. Re-enacted in the ''Lost Colors'' game - where Lelouch makes a surprisingly good bride, Suzaku has fun in a cheerleader outfit, and the male lead is dolled up in a qipao (with fake boobs and OdangoHair included) |
| 71 | ** In another Picture Drama, Lelouch has to crossdress ''yet again'', but is offset by the {{Fanservice}} of C.C and Kallen in slinky belly dancer outfits. |
| 72 | * [[Franchise/TheDCU The DC Universe]] has several examples of male-to-female "recasting" via the AffirmativeActionLegacy method: |
| 73 | ** ComicBook/{{Zatanna}} (for her father, Zatara) |
| 74 | ** Jesse Quick (for her father, Johnny Quick, though Jesse has also taken on her mother's costumed identity as Liberty Belle.) |
| 75 | ** Beth Chapel, a protegeé of the original Dr. Mid-Nite, took on his role (with a slightly different spelling) as Dr. Midnight. |
| 76 | ** Dr. Fate's role was assumed by females (Linda Strauss and Inza Nelson) twice. |
| 77 | ** Yolanda Montez had a brief tenure as Wildcat before being killed by Eclipso. |
| 78 | ** Eclipso ''itself'' was recast as a female villain, after typically taking male hosts, during the run toward DC's Infinite Crisis event, taking Jean Loring as a host. |
| 79 | ** The new Judomaster is a woman, Sonia Sato. |
| 80 | ** During World War II, Danette Reilly took over the Firebrand identity from her brother Rod. |
| 81 | ** After retiring as ComicBook/{{Starman}}, Jack Knight passed his legacy and his Cosmic Rod onto the Star-Spangled Kid, Courtney Whitmore, who then changed her name to Stargirl. |
| 82 | ** Renee Montoya took up the mantle of ComicBook/TheQuestion. |
| 83 | ** ComicBook/{{Metamorpho}} has now been replaced by Element Woman. As she is also of Korean descent, she counts as a [[TwoferTokenMinority Twofer]]. |
| 84 | * ''ComicBook/{{Superboy|1994}}'': Kon-El meets a number of alternate earth Superboys during the "Hyper-tension!" arc, one of whom is a female version of himself, with the same backstory, personality and fashion sense but cloned from Kara Zor-El instead of Kal-El because [[ComicBook/ElseworldsFinestSupergirlAndBatgirl her earth]]'s version of Kal was killed as an infant. |
| 85 | * The ''Toys/AmeComiGirls'' series takes place in such a world. Jesse Chambers is Franchise/TheFlash, Natasha Irons is ComicBook/{{Steel}}, Carrie Kelly is ComicBook/{{Robin}}, Jade Yifei is Earth's ComicBook/GreenLantern, and Duela Dent is a stand-in for ComicBook/TheJoker. '''This is closer to AffirmativeActionGirl, as those were introduced as female versions of initially male characters.''' |
| 86 | * Sir Ystin (a cross-time counterpart of the original Shining Knight, Sir Justin) in Creator/GrantMorrison's ''[[ComicBook/SevenSoldiers Shining Knight]]'', turns out to actually be the female Ystina [[SweetPollyOliver in disguise as a boy]]. Later usage of Ystin in ''ComicBook/DemonKnights'' fleshed out the portrayal of Ystin's gender being intersex. '''Literally SweetPollyOliver''' |
| 87 | |
| 88 | [[/folder]] |
| 89 | |
| 90 | !!Examples: |
| 91 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 92 | |
| 93 | [[folder: Advertising '''DONE''']] |
| 94 | * In the 1990s UK adverts for Coco Pops, Coco's gang included a male giraffe named Shorty and a female hippo named Hefty. The 2010 adverts feature a female giraffe and a male hippo (names unrevealed). |
| 95 | * The 80s rebranding of Advertising/{{Freakies}} cereal turned the male Snorkledorf into the female Tooter and the female Goody-Goody into the male Hotdog. The two of them would be returned to their original genders and names for subsequent merchandise and lore, which chose to ignore the 80s canon in favor of the original. |
| 96 | * It's not ''entirely'' clear if it's this or LarynxDissonance, but in the Wildlife Trusts' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZYcoeqzxVI short film]] based on ''Literature/TheWindInTheWillows'', Ratty is voiced by Creator/CatherineTate, and (unlike Alison Steadman as Mole), she doesn't seem to be Doing a Voice that might be intended to sound male. |
| 97 | [[/folder]] |
| 98 | |
| 99 | [[folder:Anime & Manga '''DONE''']] |
| 100 | * In the 2003 ''Anime/AstroBoy'' series, Photar is reimagined as a woman called Epsilon. ''Manga/{{Pluto}}'' splits the difference by keeping Epsilon male, but [[DudeLooksLikeALady giving him an extremely feminine appearance]]. |
| 101 | * ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'': Himaruya updated his blog [[http://himaruya.blog61.fc2.com/blog-entry-858.html#more with more genderflips]]. Including Taiwan, who goes from a GenkiGirl to a cute little boy [[RealMenWearPink with a flowery jacket pin.]] |
| 102 | * ''Manga/BlackCat'': In the original manga, Shiki was a female, but was made a male for the anime adaptation. Some American fans may not know this, due to the fact that the English version of the manga [[ShesAManInJapan made Shiki a male as well]]. |
| 103 | %%* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' has a [=genderflip=] omake at the end of volume 4. Poor, poor Rock. |
| 104 | * ''Anime/BombermanBDamanBakugaiden'', loosely based on the ''VideoGame/{{Bomberman}}'' game series, included a female Akabon (Red Bomber) rather than the male Akabon from the videogames. |
| 105 | %%* Unlike most of the Universe 6 [[MirrorUniverse counterparts]] in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', Caulifla and Kale serves as this to Goku and Broly respectively. Their relationship, however, is far friendly compared to the latter. |
| 106 | * The manhwa ''Manga/EvyioneOceanFantasy'' is a gender-flipped version of Hans Christian Andersen's "Literature/TheLittleMermaid". |
| 107 | * ''Manga/FairyTail'': The 13th constellation Orphiuchus the Serpent-Barer appears during one of the later arcs is very clearly a female, despite the constellation being male. For that matter, Aries of the ''ram'' constellation has always strangely been female. '''Does this go better in AnimalGenderBender?''' |
| 108 | * In ''Literature/FromTheNewWorld'', [[spoiler:Maria and Mamoru's child]] is a boy in the original novel but a girl in the anime. |
| 109 | * The 2001 anime adaptation of ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' accidentally did this, as it almost OvertookTheManga and thus made several changes to the plot in order to give it a satisfying ending. Late in the manga, [[spoiler:Akito, the BigBad of the series,]] is revealed [[spoiler:to actually be female, though she was RaisedAsTheOppositeGender due to her mother Ren's [[JealousParent petty jealousy]]]]. The 2001 anime is only based on the first seven volumes of the manga and was released before this revelation. As a result, [[spoiler:Akito is depicted as male, having a male voice and being shown with a completely flat chest in the final episode]]. |
| 110 | * ''Franchise/FullmetalAlchemist'': |
| 111 | ** The first [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003 animated series]] made the homunculus Sloth a female. The [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist manga]] hadn't introduced Sloth, so the anime used a completely separate character [[spoiler:who was Trisha Elric's homunculus]]. |
| 112 | ** In the manga and ''Brotherhood'', Envy is [[AmbiguousGender of unknown gender.]] In the 2003 anime, Envy is male [[spoiler:and the failed transmutation of Hohenheim’s first son,]] despite looking just as androgynous (if not [[DudeLooksLikeALady more so]].) |
| 113 | * A variant shows up in ''Literature/GargoyleOfTheYoshinagas''. When Gargoyle is transported to a mountain village, he meets a pair of siblings who resemble Futaba and Kazumi almost exactly. Since Futaba is a tomboy and Kazumi is very feminine, the gender flipped pair are more normal than their counterparts. |
| 114 | * In-universe example in ''Literature/{{Gate}}''. Shandy Gaff Marea writes a report on the heroes, but for some reason turned Tuka into a man. |
| 115 | * ''Manga/GetterRobo'': |
| 116 | ** In the OVA ''Armageddon'', TagAlongKid Genki from the original series is reimagined as a girl and given the new name Kei Kuruma (as she was adopted by Benkei Kuruma after losing her father and older sister). She's also a pilot and one of the main characters thanks to a TimeSkip. |
| 117 | ** ''New Getter Robo'' does this again, but this time, to Raikou Minamoto. And by the way, she predates ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'''s Mama Raikou! |
| 118 | * ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' has the very strange and short-lived manga ''Gunnota no Onna'', which is about a female Char Aznable working as an OfficeLady while trying to hide her being a ''Gundam'' {{Otaku}}. While most of the cast is Gender Flipped Universal Century characters, a few remain intact, like Gunnota's best friend [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Flay]] and a [[TheCameo cameo]] by [[HitmanWithAHeart three]] [[ActualPacifist familiar]]-[[TheLancer looking]] [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing children]]. |
| 119 | * ''Anime/GundamBuildFighters'' has a {{Running|Gag}} MythologyGag where famous characters from across the franchise's history will appear in brief [[TheCameo cameo]] roles. [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Heero Yuy]] appears in Episode 14, but as a teenage girl rather than a dude. |
| 120 | * The [[AlternateContinuity 2009 TV special]] of ''Manga/KimbaTheWhiteLion'' has Pauly Crakcer/Cocco being female rather than male in the original anime/manga. |
| 121 | * The main cast of ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' are based off of Kaguya-hime and her five suitors in ''The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter''.[[note]]Well, four suitors. Abe no Miushi's counterpart has yet to be introduced.[[/note]] All of the original suitors were male, but two of them in the manga (Kuramochi no Miko and Ishidzukuri no Miko) are female (Fujiwara and Iino respectively). Also, the ''Official Doujinshi'' SpinOff had a chapter where all the characters were female, with Kaguya and Shirogane's DuelOfSeduction being reimagined as a PseudoRomanticFriendship. |
| 122 | * The second ''Manga/LupinIII'' manga gave Inspector Zenigata an assistant named Melon Kiichi, a.k.a. Melon Cop. The 1977 ''Anime/LupinIIIPartII'' anime featured an episode that loosely adapted Melon Cop's first appearance, but with the character changed to a female investigator from France named Melon Ganimard, a.k.a. Detective Melon. |
| 123 | %%* ''Manga/MaidSama'' had one such manga chapter. |
| 124 | * In ''Anime/MarvelDiskWarsTheAvengers'', Death Adder from the Serpent Society is a woman. Death Adder is traditionally depicted as a male in the ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' comics. |
| 125 | * ''Manga/MazingerAngels'' is a gender-swapped version from the Mazinger universe: takes the worlds of ''Anime/MazingerZ'', ''Anime/GreatMazinger'' and ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'', replaces the male main characters and their manly HumongousMecha with the female leads and their {{Fem Bot}}s and you have this series. |
| 126 | * In ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'', Nozaki is prone to this when taking inspiration from people he knows - Mikoshiba, Wakamatsu, Hori and Seo all inspire gender-flipped characters. This can also be invoked by the manga itself as many of the male characters have personality traits more commonly associated with female characters, and vice versa. For instance, Mikorin is basically a blushing male {{Tsundere}}, while Kashima is a female HandsomeLech, ChickMagnet and [[TheCharmer Charmer]]. |
| 127 | * ''Anime/OsomatsuSan'' likes to do this because only three of its usual main cast (Matsuyo, Totoko and Nyaa) are female. In the second cour of the first season and the first cour of the second, there were the "Girlymatsu-sans" who resemble the Sextuplets but are female, with a job, [[spoiler: and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking not related]]]]. By the second cour of the second season, new characters (often female) are assembled out of the Sextuplets to better suit the one-off stories' needs. |
| 128 | * One episode of ''Literature/{{Oreimo}}'' sees Kirino's novel getting adapted into an anime series. InUniverse, the writers of the TV show propose changing the heroine into a boy in order to better entice young male viewers. |
| 129 | * ''Manga/PrincessPrincess'' had "Prince Prince". [[NoFourthWall Two girls from that story argued over the existence (or not) of differences resulting from the gender flip]]. |
| 130 | * ''Manga/SaintSeiya'': |
| 131 | ** Scorpio Milo was a man in the original manga and anime, but was changed into a woman in the 3D movie ''Anime/SaintSeiyaLegendOfSanctuary''. |
| 132 | ** In ''Anime/SaintSeiyaKnightsOfTheZodiac'', Andromeda Shun is flipped to Andromeda ''Shaun'', though she's got BoyishShortHair compared to Shun's long locks. |
| 133 | * Koan's first appearance in the ''Manga/SailorMoon'' manga had her kill a little girl who saw her and her droids at night. In ''Anime/SailorMoonCrystal'', the unfortunate witness Koan murders in this scene was changed to an adult businessman. |
| 134 | * The second anime adaptation of Hector Malot's novel ''Literature/SansFamille'' does this to the main character. |
| 135 | * The cast of ''Anime/SchoolRumble'' staged a gender-flipped version of "Literature/SleepingBeauty". |
| 136 | * ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato2199'' has Akira "[[InSeriesNickname Rei]]" Yamamoto, who was originally a male pilot with a relatively small role in the [[Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato original]], becoming a female pilot with a much [[AdaptationExpansion larger one]]. Comparisons with [[Series/BattleStarGalactica2003 Starbuck]] are not uncommon among the fan base, who use "Starbuck" as her FanNickname. |
| 137 | * The ''Manga/{{Splatoon}}'' manga uses Goggles, Rider, and Gloves as {{Decomposite Character}}s of both Agent 3 and Agent 4, while the ''[[VideoGame/Splatoon2 Octo Expansion]]'' story arc features a male Agent 8. The genders of these characters can be [[CharacterCustomization customized]] in the ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' games; however, promotional materials for both games and the in-game canon for [[VideoGame/Splatoon2 the second]] have the protagonist roles filled by females. |
| 138 | * ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}} Comic'' portrays Leo as a teenage boy, as it was written before Katsuhiro Harada had revealed that she's actually a {{Bifauxnen}} (with "Leo" being short for "Eleonora"). |
| 139 | * In the 1987 anime ''Anime/TheThreeMusketeers'', Aramis is a woman who disguised herself as a man to join the Musketeers. In the original novel, all the musketeers are men. |
| 140 | * The cast of ''Manga/WanderingSon'' played gender-flipped versions of ''The Rose of Versailles'' and ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' in school plays. |
| 141 | [[/folder]] |
| 142 | |
| 143 | [[folder:Audio Plays '''DONE''']] |
| 144 | * Creator/TerryNation's failed {{pilot}} for his Dalek TV series, "The Destroyers", had brother and sister team David and Sara Kingdom (a {{Transplant}} - she had been a ''Series/DoctorWho'' companion, although the show was not intended to take place in ''Doctor Who'' continuity), with David taking the ActionHero and protagonist role, and Sara spending most of the story captured and getting kidnapped by Daleks. When Creator/BigFinish adapted it as an audio drama for their ''The Lost Stories'' range, the adaptation mostly worked off the original script but switched the roles of David and Sara to make her the main character. |
| 145 | * In the audio drama version of Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/TheMist'', the Hatlen character, named Mike in the original novella, is renamed Stella Hatlen. She shares her male book counterpart's fate of getting killed by spiders in the pharmacy. |
| 146 | [[/folder]] |
| 147 | |
| 148 | |
| 149 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 150 | |
| 151 | * Many male Creator/MarvelComics characters become females in the Manga/MarvelMangaverse: |
| 152 | ** ComicBook/ThePunisher is a [[RaceLift Japanese]] woman. |
| 153 | ** The Human Torch from the ComicBook/FantasticFour becomes a teenage girl, with her name changed from Johnny Storm to Jonatha Storm. She's also a rather blatant {{Expy}} of Asuka from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''. |
| 154 | ** ComicBook/IronMan became Antoinette "Toni" Stark, though it was later revealed she's the younger sister of the "real" Tony Stark. |
| 155 | ** The ComicBook/XMen villain Pyro is changed from an Australian man to a British woman. |
| 156 | * There's also one universe where ComicBook/IronMan is a woman named Natasha Stark, who ended up falling in love with and marrying Captain America. Think of that what you will. |
| 157 | * The WhatIf story ''Catwoman: Guardian of Gotham'' is essentially a gender-flipped version of the Batman mythos, with ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} as a superhero and Batman as her nemesis. Additionally, gender-flipped versions of Alfred and Two-Face appear in supporting roles. |
| 158 | * ComicBook/TheSpirit's sidekick Ebony White is a girl in the ''ComicBook/{{First Wave|DCComics}}'' universe. This is because writer Brian Azzarello felt Ebony was more fitting as a female name in the 21st century. |
| 159 | * In the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Universe: |
| 160 | ** ComicBook/TheVision from ComicBook/TheAvengers is female. |
| 161 | ** The Mad Thinker was male in the main Franchise/MarvelUniverse; his counterpart, Rhona Burchill from ''ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour'', is female. |
| 162 | ** The Ultimate versions of Swarm and Hurricane are also made female. Bonus points for Hurricane becoming [[RaceLift Asian as well]]. |
| 163 | ** [[ComicBook/AlphaFlight Sasquatch]] has the human identity of Rahne Sinclair rather than Walter Langkowski. [[ViewerGenderConfusion The reader is only made aware of this once]] [[SamusIsAGirl Sasquatch returns to her human form]], as otherwise it's nearly [[AmbiguousGender impossible to tell the monster's gender]]. |
| 164 | ** Stone from ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'' is a woman as well. |
| 165 | * ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'': |
| 166 | ** The Thor Corps consists of various versions of [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] from across the Multiverse, including female wielders of Mjolnir like ComicBook/{{Storm|MarvelComics}}, ComicBook/{{Gamora}}, ComicBook/{{Dazzler}} and ComicBook/MariaHill. |
| 167 | ** In the ''[[ComicBook/ShangChi Master of Kung Fu]]'' limited series, female versions of ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}} and ComicBook/MoonKnight are seen as entrants in the tournament to decide the new ruler of K'un-L'un. |
| 168 | * ComicBook/Earth2: |
| 169 | ** ComicBook/RedTornado is a {{Gynoid}}. |
| 170 | ** The Earth 2 version of ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} is, well, Aquawoman. |
| 171 | ** Lee Travis, the Crimson Avenger pre-New 52, is now a female reporter and given a RaceLift. |
| 172 | * In Marvel's all-ages Marvel Adventures imprint, [[ComicBook/AntMan Giant-Man]] is replaced by Giant-Girl, a teenage version of [[ComicBook/TheWasp Janet Van Dyne]]. However Hank Pym does later appear as Ant-Man. |
| 173 | * The proposed 2015 reboot of the Creator/ArchieComics hero ''The Web'' changed the character from an adult man named John Raymond to a 14-year-old [[RaceLift Korean-American]] schoolgirl named Jane Raymond. |
| 174 | * Tristan in ''ComicBook/{{Camelot 3000}}'' is a rare simultaneous example of Gender Flip and GenderBender. The "role" of Sir Tristan is recast (via reincarnation) for a female... but Lady Tristan remembers her life as a man. |
| 175 | * One issue of ''ComicBook/SpiderMan [[{{Elseworld}} Fairy Tales]]'' was yet another gender-flipped Cinderella. Peter was Cinders, with ComicBook/{{Norman|Osborn}} and Harry Osborn as the evil stepfather and stepbrother. Gwen was the princess, and MJ a servant at the Osborn household who helped Peter (possibly a gender-flipped version of the {{Panto}} character Buttons.) |
| 176 | * ''ComicBook/SpiderVerse'': |
| 177 | ** ''Edge of Spider-Verse'' has the SP//dr mech, which is piloted by Peni Parker, a Japanese-American schoolgirl who is her universe's version of Peter Parker. The later ''Edge of ComicBook/SpiderGeddon'' mini-series also introduces a girl named Addy Brock, the pilot of the [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} VEN#m]] mech. |
| 178 | ** Also introduced in ''Spider-Verse'' is Penelope Parker, an elementary schooler who gained powers after being bitten by a radioactive spider during a field trip. Additionally, her teacher is a female version of Kraven the Hunter named Ms. Kraven. |
| 179 | * Examples from ''Franchise/GIJoe'' properties: |
| 180 | ** ''Franchise/GIJoe Reloaded'', an UltimateUniverse attempt for the franchise published by Devil's Due, Gender Flipped "Doc" into a female TwoferTokenMinority to help avert TheSmurfettePrinciple. She became a CanonImmigrant of sorts when she was released as a convention figure, with her file card stating she was the male Doc's niece. |
| 181 | ** Dial-Tone was also changed into a female for ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeResolute'', the IDW G.I. Joe comics and the ExpandedUniverse of ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra''. Her background includes a brother named just like the male Dial-Tone, but this is more a MythologyGag than anything. |
| 182 | * Some versions of ComicBook/TheGreenHornet have used a female Kato: |
| 183 | ** The current Dynamite series features Mulan Kato, daughter of the original Kato. |
| 184 | ** The NOW Comics version had Mishi Kato (half-sister to the original), who eventually became Hornet's DistaffCounterpart, the Crimson Wasp. |
| 185 | * In the original [[MediaNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] continuity (and, apparently, in the "Post-Zero Hour" continuity), the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes' [[TheCommissionerGordon Science Police liaison]] Shvaughn Erin was a woman. The "Five Years Later" continuity retconned her into being a UsefulNotes/{{transgender}} person named ''Sean'' Erin, who stopped using [[AppliedPhlebotinum Pro-Fem]] when he realised Element Lad was actually gay. |
| 186 | * ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'' briefly dabbled with this by introducing an alternate universe in which all sexes were reversed. At one point Midnighter recruits an entire army of reversed-sex superheroes, although they are instantly killed on the next page. |
| 187 | * There have been girl versions of Franchise/{{Batman}}'s sidekick, Robin: |
| 188 | ** In ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'', a young girl becomes the new Robin. News reports about Batman's new sidekick don't know any better, and continue to call his assistant "Boy Wonder". |
| 189 | ** [[ComicBook/Batgirl2009 Stephanie Brown]] became Robin when Tim Drake retired for a short time. |
| 190 | ** In the above-mentioned ''ComicBook/Earth2'' series, Robin was [[ComicBook/{{Huntress}} Helena Wayne]], Bruce's teenage daughter. |
| 191 | * ComicBook/{{Taskmaster}} is a woman in ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} MAX''. RuleOfCool. |
| 192 | * In ''Timestorm 2009-2099'', which features an alternate version of the ComicBook/Marvel2099 timeline, Bloodhawk of the X-Men 2099 is female. |
| 193 | * Done InUniverse in ''ComicBook/AngelIDW''. There was a Hollywood movie (VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory) about The Fall, which had [[http://images.wikia.com/buffy/images/5/55/SheSpike.jpg Spike as a woman.]] [[note]]Technically it's a CompositeCharacter of Spike and Darla, but for all intents and purposes it's Spike as a woman. And yes, before you ask, fem-Spike gets pregnant.[[/note]] When they watched it, Angel was disgusted and insulted, while Spike thought it was hilarious. |
| 194 | * Billy Lane from season 9 of ''ComicBook/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' is introduced as a normal teenage boy who takes on the Slayer role when his town is infested with zombified vampires in the aptly-named ''Billy the Vampire Slayer''. At the very end of the season, he gains a spiritual connection to the Slayer line (making him the very first male Slayer), but nothing ever comes of it and is only used to drive the main plot of the tenth season. |
| 195 | * Due to the gender roles of TheThirties, ''ComicBook/SpiderManNoir'' has a male Federal Agent Jean De Wolfe standing in for the female Captain Jean [=DeWolff=] in mainstream continuity. |
| 196 | * When Mick Anglo {{Exp|y}}ied the ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'' cast to make ''[[ComicBook/{{Miracleman}} Marvelman]]'', Captain Marvel became Marvelman, Captain Marvel Jr. became Kid Marvelman... and Mary Marvel became Young Marvelman. |
| 197 | * In Creator/DCComics' ComicBook/New52 version of ''The Green Team'', Cecil Sunbeam, kid movie director, becomes Cecilia Sunbeam, starlet. |
| 198 | * Dare, in the ComicBook/AmalgamUniverse title ''Assassins'', was an [[CompositeCharacter amalgam]] of Daredevil and Deathstroke, both male characters, but was female. |
| 199 | * In the Bronze Age Superman story "The Turnabout Trap", Mister Mxyzptlk decided to make Superman's life miserable by gender-inverting the people in Superman's world so that his girlfriend Lois Lane doesn't exist, as she has been changed into Louis Lane. Superman realizes who is behind it as he sees among the pictures of Superwoman's enemies that Mxyzptlk didn't gender-invert himself (and made Superwoman and Clara Kent separate people, since Mxy wasn't aware Superman had a secret identity). At the end of the story, when Superman gets Mxyzptlk to undo his magic, he meets the real Louis Lane, who turns out to be Lois' cousin. This story likely served as the inspiration for Earth-11. |
| 200 | * The ''Star Trek: Ongoing'' series by IDW, a continuation of the [[Film/StarTrek2009 film]] [[Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness series]], saw the publication of the first part of a two-part series, in which the entire crew of the ''Enterprise'' has been gender-swapped. There are a lot of women. [[spoiler: It gets hilarious in the end when they cross over into the normal universe and meet their counterparts.]] |
| 201 | * In the ComicBook/New52 version of ''[[ComicBook/NewGods The Forever People]]'', Serifan has become Serafina. (She's also had a RaceLift, since she's [[RelatedInTheAdaptation now Vykin's sister]].) |
| 202 | * In ''ComicBook/JustImagineStanLeeCreatingTheDCUniverse'', ComicBook/TheFlash is a teenage girl named Mary Maxwell. |
| 203 | * Although ''ComicBook/Batman66'' is supposed to be based directly on the ''Series/Batman1966'' TV series, Warden Chrichton (played by white male actor David Lewis in the show) became an [[RaceLift African-American]] woman. |
| 204 | * ''ComicBook/EarthOne'': |
| 205 | ** ''ComicBook/SupermanEarthOne'' [[spoiler: sees ComicBook/LexLuthor move from DecompositeCharacter to this with the Luthor husband dead and his wife Alexandra taking up the name "Lex"]]. |
| 206 | ** Similarly, ''ComicBook/BatmanEarthOne'' takes a similar approach to [[spoiler: Two-Face, with Harvey Dent dying and his sister Jessica taking up the role.]] |
| 207 | * In ''ComicBook/OdyC'', a space opera set in the aftermath of a male {{Gendercide}}, nearly all the male characters from ''Literature/TheOdyssey'' have been gender flipped. So have some of the female characters, because this is a sci-fi setting where "male" and "female" are not the only options. |
| 208 | * ''ComicBook/SpiderGwen'': |
| 209 | ** The title character is a cross between this and a CompositeCharacter, being a version of Gwen Stacy who received the fateful radioactive spider bite that empowered Peter Parker in the mainline universe. |
| 210 | ** This version of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica is an [[RaceLift African-American]] woman named [[ComicBook/TheFalcon Samantha Wilson]]. |
| 211 | ** In another Distaff/Composite mix, this universe's ComicBook/PeggyCarter is the one-eyed, [[OlderThanTheyLook long-lived]] director of ComicBook/{{SHIELD}}, effectively making her a female version of ComicBook/NickFury in all but name. |
| 212 | ** [[ComicBook/SpiderWoman Jessica Drew]] is a male agent named Jesse Drew. |
| 213 | ** The ComicBook/{{Venom}} symbiote was created by a scientist named Elsa Brock, a play on Venom's traditional alter ego of Eddie Brock. |
| 214 | * ''ComicBook/{{Prez|1973}}'', the story of boy president Prez Rickard, was rebooted as ''ComicBook/{{Prez|2015}}'', the story of girl president Beth Ross.The original "Prez" has a supporting role as her Vice-President. |
| 215 | * ''ComicBook/GothamAcademy: Second Semester'' reintroduces the Terrible Trio as Academy students. Armand Lydecker, the Fox, becomes Amanda Lydecker and Warren Lawford, the Shark, becomes Wendy Lawford. It's also mentioned that Amanda is descended from a 19th century Ambroos Lydecker who ''also'' called himself the Fox, so it's possible the original Trio are still in continuity as part of the AncientConspiracy. |
| 216 | * Laufey from ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'' is an odd example. In the mythology, Loki is often referred to as "[[IAmXSonOfY Loki Laufeyson]]," the same way that Thor is called "Odinson;" ergo, Marvel created their own version of Laufrey as Loki's father. The thing is, in the original myths, Laufrey was actually Loki's ''mother,'' while his father was named Fárbauti. Presumably the ''Thor'' writers just didn't realize that. (Incidentally, scholars aren't sure why Loki uses a matronymic; since the myths were originally written as poems, it's quite possibly just AddedAlliterativeAppeal.) |
| 217 | * ''ComicBook/SuperSons'' Annual #1 reintroduces Streaky the Super-Cat. In this version Streaky is female (and apparently [[InterspeciesRomance in love with Krypto]]) although he was a tomcat on Earth-One and in the ''WesternAnimation/KryptoTheSuperdog'' cartoon. |
| 218 | * ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' features a female {{Race Lift}}ed version of [[CanonImmigrant Jack (Jackie) McGee]] from ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk1977''. |
| 219 | * At some point during one of the innumerable {{Soft Reboot}}s of ''ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUK'', Dennis's pet pig Rasher changed from a boar to a sow. |
| 220 | * In the New 52 ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'' book, a female version of Silver Age GA villain the Red Dart (originally a man named Jonathan Mallory) was introduced as a member of Richard Dragon's Longbow Hunters. This version later appeared in ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. |
| 221 | * ''ComicBook/DetectiveComicsRebirth'' reveals [[spoiler:Jeremiah Arkham has a daughter named Astrid, who's become a costumed villain targeting Batman. What puts here here? Her costumed identity is a combination of this, DecompositeCharacter and SamusIsAGirl as as she takes up an identity held by an alternate version of [[ComicBook/RedHood Jason Todd]]: [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight the Arkham Knight]].]] |
| 222 | [[/folder]] |
| 223 | |
| 224 | [[folder:Fairy Tales]] |
| 225 | * ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'': |
| 226 | ** Cindy and her sisters have brothers, Cinderlad or Askeladden, in folklore in such tales as ''Literature/ThePrincessOnTheGlassHill'', ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/hopomythumb/stories/bootstroll.html Boots and the Troll]]'', and ''Literature/TheSevenFoals''. |
| 227 | ** The story also got gender flipped in a Hungarian version of the story called ''[[Animation/HungarianFolkTales Hamupipoke királyfi (Cinderella Prince)]]''. |
| 228 | * ''Literature/SleepingBeauty'' and ''Literature/SnowWhite'' are the best known specimens of the common sleeping princess, but the sleeping prince is also known, as in the frame story of ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/pentamerone/1introduction1911.html The Pentamerone]]''. |
| 229 | * ''Literature/KateCrackernuts'' rescues a prince, in a reversal of the story of ''Literature/TheTwelveDancingPrincesses''. |
| 230 | * The SheCleansUpNicely plot of ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'' and her sisters has a Gender Flip equivalent in ''Literature/{{Bearskin}}'', and such variants as ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/bearskin/stories/dongiovanni.html Don Giovanni de la Fortuna]]'', ''[[http://www.gwu.edu/~folktale/GERM232/bearskin/web%20pages/SoldierandtheBadMan.html The Soldier and the Bad Man]]'', ''[[http://www.gwu.edu/~folktale/GERM232/bearskin/web%20pages/RoadtoHell.html The Road to Hell]]'', ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/bearskin/stories/rewardkindness.html The Reward of Kindness]]'', ''[[http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0361.html#sutermeister "The Devil As Partner" and "Never Wash"]].'' |
| 231 | * Man/woman acquires a magical spouse, [[ForbiddenFruit violates a prohibition]], and must go on TheQuest to find the spouse again. |
| 232 | ** The fairy tales classified as ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/eastsunwestmoon/other.html The Search for the Lost Husband]]'' are as plentiful as those classified ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/swanmaiden/other.html The Quest for a Lost Bride]]'', making it impossible to say which is the original and which the Gender Flip. |
| 233 | ** A special instance is the Indian tale of Urvashi and Pururavas, which is the Quest for a Lost Bride; however, the prohibition he breaks is that at night -- with the aid of a lightning flash provided by her sisters who want her back -- she sees him naked, when seeing the husband at night is usually from ''The Search for the Lost Husband.'' |
| 234 | * In ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/stories/blackcow.html The Story of the Black Cow]]'', it is a stepson who is aided against his WickedStepmother by a magical cow; they run away together and the cow's magical aid lets him [[RagsToRoyalty make a royal match]]. |
| 235 | * ''Literature/AraTheHandsome'' has a man who's the FairestOfThemAll and a Queen who obsessively falls in love with him, starting a war just to have him. |
| 236 | * ''Literature/CatherineAndHerFate'' is a Gender Flip of a popular ChivalricRomance tale, the Man Tested by Fate. |
| 237 | * ''Literature/{{Prunella}}'' is a Gender Flip of many tales like ''Literature/TheWhiteDove'' where a man has to perform tasks and is helped by the daughter of the ogre or witch or whatever holding him captive. |
| 238 | * There are tales of both frog princes and frog princesses throughout Europe. |
| 239 | * In ''Literature/TheDeathOfKoscheiTheDeathless'' or ''Marya Morevna'', newly weds are parted when the wife goes to war, instead of when the husband does, as in ''The Girl Without Hands'' and many other tales. |
| 240 | * The princess who can not laugh -- as in ''Literature/TheGoldenGoose'' -- has a male equivalent in the Indian tale ''The Jasmine Prince,'' who can't force himself to laugh -- and whom a rajah holds captive, wishing to smell the jasmine scent of when he does laugh, spontaneously. |
| 241 | * Many fairy tales have a heroine, held captive or dead, returning to her husband and child for a few visits, as in ''Brother And Sister,'' ''Bushy Bride'', and ''The Witch in the Stone Boat''. An Italian tale (included by Creator/ItaloCalvino in his ''Italian Folktales''), ''The King's Son In The Henhouse'', has the hero returning to his wife and child. |
| 242 | [[/folder]] |
| 243 | |
| 244 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 245 | * "The Girl Who Lived" is a popular idea for stories in ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fandom: |
| 246 | ** ''Fanfic/AButterflyEffect'' is one of many, replacing Harry James Potter with Harriet Lily Potter. |
| 247 | ** ''Fanfic/ALongJourneyHome'' has Jasmine Potter. |
| 248 | ** ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheMysteriousCurseOfTheGirlWhoLived'' plays with this idea, keeping Harry a boy but placing him under a strange curse that makes everyone magical see him as a girl. With a very few exceptions (Dumbledore, Ollivander and Luna), the curse stops them from considering for even a moment that "Harriet" might not be a girl, no matter how many times Harry tries to tell them. |
| 249 | ** ''Fanfic/WeasleyGirl'' keeps Harry a boy but gives the Gender Flip treatment to Ron Weasley instead, turning him into Veronica "Ronnie" Weasley. |
| 250 | * ''Fanfic/NerimaMagistraNellyMagi'' is ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' with ''every character'' gender-flipped. '''Rule 63?''' |
| 251 | * ''Fanfic/OnceMoreWithFeeling'': In canon, Asuka called Shinji, Touji and Kensuke "The Three Stooges". In this story, Asuka, Hikari and Rei are called -very privately and very, very quietly by the abovementioned trio- "The Three Stoogettes". |
| 252 | * ''Fanfic/TheOneILoveIs'': In this story Kaworu Nagisa -a character is male in canon- is a girl (and gets a rename: Kaoru Nagisa). |
| 253 | * Special mention goes to ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'' story ''Let It Rain'' which is a Gender Re-Flip of Jeremy was a girl in the books just with a different name and aged up. |
| 254 | %%* ''Fanfic/CanonInG'' does this to Creator/KeyVisualArts' [[TheVerse Seasonverse]], more specifically, ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}''. |
| 255 | * This comes up frequently in ''[[Fanfic/TotalDramaIslandByGilbertAndSullivan Total Drama Island, by Gilbert and Sullivan]]''. For many of the verses pertaining to romantic relationships and complications thereof, the gender roles in the ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' incidents are reversed from the original roles in the operettas. This is especially prominent with respect to Cody's unsuccessful suit for Gwen's affections. |
| 256 | * The ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' fanfic ''All That Jazz'' is a variation. It adapts ''Theatre/{{Chicago}}'' with characters from ''Supernatural'', most of which are the opposite gender of their counterparts from the play. |
| 257 | * Pivix user Yuu Kurono has made a number of character sketches and comics around the premise of gender-flipping a portion of the cast of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' (specifically [[MessianicArchetype Madoka]], [[TroubledButCute Kyoko]], and [[TheWisePrince Mami]]... And a token shota Human!Charlotte <[[HilariousInHindsight long before Charlotte's Pre-Witch form was even conceived by the staff, let alone revealed]]>), along with [[{{Bishounen}} Humanoid!Kyubey]]. They can all be found on Danbooru (try the tags "kurono_yuu" and "genderswap" to get started), but due to the nature of the site, it would be better to offer a link to a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVqVvZijqF0 surprisingly good fandub of most of the comics on YouTube]]. The [[GoYay romantic undertones]] of [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl Homura/Madoka]] and [[BelligerentSexualTension Sayaka/Kyoko]] suddenly become very blatant. |
| 258 | * The ''Film/StarTrek2009'' story ''Fanfic/WrittenInTheStars'' featured a gender-swapped Kirk; Jane Tiberia, both in the Prime reality and the Alternate reality. [[spoiler: She and Spock hook up]]. |
| 259 | * In ''Fanfic/MechanicalManiacs'', the ''VideoGame/MegaMan3'' [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Robot Masters]] are {{Author Avatar}}s. After the first series of epilogues, Anton, the Needleman of the team, departed. For series 2, Gauntlet (Shadow Man)'s sister Psycho Magnet joined to fill the Needleman role, so the character became "Needlegal". During Series 5, Musashi Razz became inactive as Sparkman, so Classi Cal took over the role and it became "Spark Chan". And those are just the members that are still around -- around the same time Needleman became Needlegal, Sarah also took up the then-vacant Hardman role as "Hard Chick", until Series 2 ended. |
| 260 | * In the ''VideoGame/Persona4'' fanfiction, ''Fanfic/FacadePersona4'', the protagonist Yu Narukami is gender-swapped. Not much really changes, except for one thing: No-one knows Yu is female. |
| 261 | * Some ''{{Franchise/Kirby}}'' fanfics tend to portray Galacta Knight has female, usually with the intent of having 'her' paired with Meta Knight. |
| 262 | * In ''Fanfic/TheBridge'', the canonically male Mothra Leo is changed to the female Mothra Lea. The author pointed out that since the Mothra species reproduces asexually, they should logically all be female. |
| 263 | * In the pre-Crisis Earth-S fanfic ''Whatever Happened to Isis?'', Isis's LoveInterest Rick Mason is given an AdventureArchaeologist sister named Regina, who is transformed by the Orb of Ra into a {{Shapeshifter}}; a gender flip of Earth-1's ''Rex'' Mason aka ComicBook/{{Metamorpho}}. |
| 264 | * Many fanfics for ''Film/TheHobbit'' replace Bilbo with a hobbit woman, often with the intent to pair her off with Thorin. Some keep Bilbo's backstory, while others give him a sister, and there are also those where Bilbo didn't want to go on the quest and his relative Lobelia went instead. Then there is ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/4661757/chapters/10636026 The Monstrous Company of Thorin Oakenshield]]'' whose title is rather unsubtly based on Pratchett's ''Literature/MonstrousRegiment''. Accordingly, [[spoiler:the whole company with the exception of Bilbo and Gandalf turn out to be female.]] |
| 265 | * Happens ''way too often to keep track of'' in ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' fan works, usually due to either ViewerGenderConfusion or flat-out {{Shipping}}. In fact, it's ''so'' common, that there are meme templates all over the Internet (mostly Website/DeviantArt) of what gender the animatronic characters are in the user's AlternateUniverse. It's also one of the reasons the fandom has a rather poor reputation. |
| 266 | ** Officially speaking, all versions of Bonnie the Bunny are [[GenderBlenderName male]]. That doesn't stop people from portraying them as female, ''especially'' when it comes to [[DudeLooksLikeALady Toy Bonnie]] (who is often referred to as "Bon Bon" when his gender is flipped). |
| 267 | ** Chica the Chicken probably got this before, since she doesn't really look female at all. |
| 268 | ** Funtime Foxy, A.K.A. Mangle, has an AmbiguousGender due to conflicting evidence from the second game. They're supposed to be a remade version of Foxy the Pirate Fox, who is male. However, there's a possibility that Foxy himself actually underwent a GenderFlip InUniverse. Look up a picture of Mangle and you'll see why. The gender's ambiguity is the result of them appearing in a challenge called "Ladies Night" in spite of the game's instructor calling Mangle a male, leaving the fandom [[BrokenBase split]] on the issue entirely. Whatever gender Mangle is, they've ''definitely'' gotten this treatment in fan works and are probably the whole reason the aforementioned "gender memes" even exist. |
| 269 | ** The Puppet gets this treatment as well, in not one, but ''two'' ways. Like Mangle, it has an AmbiguousGender (but is generally agreed to be male) and it also resembles a [[MonsterClown clown]]. However, [[spoiler: the animatronics in the series are canonically possessed by dead children, whose genders are also unknown save for the Puppet's, which was often believed to be male [[SamusIsAGirl before turning out to be female]].]] |
| 270 | * Monkey D. Luffy in ''Fanfic/SolInvictus'' becomes this along with some minor characters. She mostly still acts like her male counterpart. |
| 271 | * ''Fanfic/Earth27'': |
| 272 | ** Red Lantern Rankorr becomes a woman named Jane Moore. |
| 273 | ** Psycho-Pirate becomes a woman named Regina Hayden. |
| 274 | ** Blue Devil is changed from Daniel Cassidy to Danielle Cassidy. |
| 275 | * In ''Fanfic/AmazingFantasy'', the Prowler is a woman when he's normally the very male Hobie Brown in the comics. |
| 276 | * ''Fanfic/SoTheTrauma'' is based off ''Kim Possible: So The Drama'' but with one crucial change: Eric is now Erica. Shego saw Drakken's plans for Eric and tweaked them because she [[{{Gaydar}} guessed]] Kim would prefer a female love interest instead. She was right, and the story ends up changing into a ComingOutStory. |
| 277 | * In ''Fanfic/RWBYScars'', most of Salem's underlings are changed into women. |
| 278 | * In ''Fanfic/YokaiWatchRe'', Pinkipoo is female. In the games Pinkipoo are only male. |
| 279 | * ''Fanfic/HarbouredAndEncompassed'' (Modern AU ''Hornblower'' fic) has a male to female Gender Flip. Midshipman (No First Name) Clayton becomes Hannah Clayton who is Archie's neighbour. |
| 280 | * This gender flip ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13226631/1/Shigeko-Kageyama-AKA-Mob Shigeko Kageyama AKA Mob]]'' in which Mob of-''Manga/MobPsycho100''--is born female and the entire series is retold through this. A character exploration and deconstruction of the usual gender flipped tropes in the fandom. |
| 281 | * A series of articles on the Muppets fansite ''Tough Pigs'' imagine the Muppet movies being recast without the Muppets, with various gimmicks to keep it interesting. For ''Film/TheGreatMuppetCaper'', the gimmick is ''said'' to be that they're mostly improv comedians, but it [[http://www.toughpigs.com/cast-muppet-caper/ quickly becomes apparent]] that it's this. (Creator/TinaFey as Kermit; Creator/JohnCReilly as Piggy; Creator/AmyPoehler as Fozzie; and so on, including Creator/JohnCleese and Joan Sanderson as Joan Sanderson and John Cleese.) |
| 282 | * In ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'', [[spoiler:Dodoria, male in the original ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', was turned into a girl for the abridged series. This was PlayedForLaughs to invoke UnsettlingGenderReveal. (And also because the 'canon' reveal of Frieza destroying Vegeta's home planet was already common knowledge in the abridged series.)]] |
| 283 | * Played with in ''WebVideo/SailorMoonAbridged''. Sailor Jupiter is still a girl like in canon, but she's pre-op UsefulNotes/{{transgender}} rather than cis female. |
| 284 | * In ''Webcomic/ATaleOfTwoRulers'', Zelda's daughter Rinku is the current {{reincarnation}} of Link. |
| 285 | * Dwarfs in ''Fanfic/WickedWiles'' are not a OneGenderRace. They almost all use he/him pronouns and look (and sound) masculine, but some are considered female by human standards. Grumpy and Happy would be considered female. |
| 286 | [[/folder]] |
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| 288 | [[folder:Films — Animation '''DONE''']] |
| 289 | * Ms. Li from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood'' is a female version of Mr. Li, a similar character from the original ''Under The Hood'' comic story. |
| 290 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheHalloweenTree'', an animated film adapted from a book of the same title written by Ray Bradbury, changed the trick-or-treater dressed as a witch from a boy named Henry-Hank to a girl named Jenny. |
| 291 | * In ''Literature/TheTrueMeaningOfSmekday'' Pig the cat was a girl, in ''WesternAnimation/Home2015'' Pig is a boy cat, which is strange because real life calico cats are almost always female due to the genetics of coloring. |
| 292 | * Terk (whose name is short for Terkina) from ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'' is (loosely) based on Terkoz from the original novels, who was male. Apparently, this was a result of Rosie O’Donnell’s audition. |
| 293 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'', Captain Smollett from ''Literature/TreasureIsland'' is a [[CatGirl feline lady alien]] named Amelia. |
| 294 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Uglydolls}}'': |
| 295 | ** The movie makes the character Wage female, with the character being male in the original toyline. |
| 296 | ** Wedgehead is another character turned female from the toyline. Unlike Wage, Wedgehead gets a design change, being turned [[AdaptationDyeJob bright yellow instead of the toyline's original dark blue.]] |
| 297 | ** Ice-Bat is also turned into a female character, a fact revealed from her bio on Hasbro's character website. |
| 298 | * The version of ComicBook/DoctorOctopus seen in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'' is a female scientist named Olivia "Liv" Octavius. |
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| 301 | [[folder:Films — Live-Action]] |
| 302 | * In the film adaptation of the comic ''ComicBook/{{Alena}}'' Fabian becomes Fabienne. |
| 303 | * ''Film/AllTheTroublesOfTheWorld'': Corrections officer Ali Othrnan is changed to a female character and [[AdaptationNameChange renamed Barbara Hammond]]. |
| 304 | * Dr. Kafka, the [[BedlamHouse Ravencroft Institute]]'s MadScientist in ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'', played by Marton Csokas, is a gender-flip (and AdaptationalVillainy) version of Dr. Ashley Kafka, the [[TheShrink Awesome Shrink]] who founded the Institute in the comics. |
| 305 | * Dr. Peter Leavitt is changed into Dr. ''Ruth'' Leavitt in the film adaptation of ''Film/TheAndromedaStrain''. |
| 306 | * Sandy the dog, (a male in the previous adaptations of ''Theatre/{{Annie}}'' as well as in ''ComicStrip/LittleOrphanAnnie''), is a female in ''Film/Annie2014''. |
| 307 | * The 2020 ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'' [[Film/ArtemisFowl movie]] turns the books' Commander Julius Root female, played by Dame Creator/JudiDench, no less. |
| 308 | * In the Creator/RussellBrand remake of ''Film/Arthur2011'', Hobson the butler, played by Sir Creator/JohnGielgud in the original, becomes Lillian Hobson the nanny, played by Dame Creator/HelenMirren. In addition, Arthur's mother takes the role his father had in the original. |
| 309 | * The famous duet "Baby, It's Cold Outside" used in films: |
| 310 | ** It was first introduced in the movie ''Neptune's Daughter'' by Creator/EstherWilliams and Creator/RicardoMontalban. She plays "The Mouse" and he plays "The Wolf", as you would expect. But the song is soon reprised by Betty Garrett and Red Skelton, and this time he's the one who's resisting and she's the one who's advancing. |
| 311 | ** Again flipped in a version with Creator/SelmaBlair and [[Series/TheOfficeUS Rainn Wilson]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hEJQbEYjRg Oh My!]] |
| 312 | ** Probably in a ShoutOut (or not, this ''is'' Miss Piggy after all), one episode of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' had Miss Piggy being the "Wolf" to guest star Rudolf Nureyev's "Mouse". |
| 313 | ** The Muppets seem to enjoy flipping this song: years later, in ''Lady Gaga & The Muppets' Holiday Spectacular'', Lady Gaga was the "Wolf" to Joseph Gordon-Levitt's "Mouse". |
| 314 | * The 1967 version of ''Film/{{Bedazzled|1967}}'' starred Creator/PeterCook as the Devil. [[Film/Bedazzled2000 The 2000 remake]] cast Elizabeth Hurley in that role. |
| 315 | * ''Film/{{Burglar}}'' gender flipped several of the main characters, as well as giving a RaceLift to the protagonist. The movie was based on a series of novels by Lawrence Block about a white male bookstore owner/burglar. The screenplay was written after Creator/BruceWillis passed on the role and it became a vehicle for Whoopi Goldberg. |
| 316 | * Critics pointed out that much of ''Film/{{Byzantium}}'' is basically a gender-flipped take on Jordan's earlier film adaptation of ''Interview with the Vampire''. |
| 317 | * In the low-budget 1990 ''Film/{{Captain America|1990}}'' movie, Professor Erskine is reimagined as a female scientist named Maria Vaselli. In an aversion of [[MenAreTheExpendableGender a certain common adaptation trope]], she still ends up being murdered by a Nazi agent. |
| 318 | * There are far too many adaptations of ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' with Ebenezer Scrooge replaced by a female with the similar backstory and attitude (but not necessarily same age and attractiveness). |
| 319 | * Jaq the mouse from ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'' becomes Jacqueline in ''Film/Cinderella2015''. |
| 320 | * The Jerry Lewis movie ''Film/{{Cinderfella}}'', as the title implies, is a Gender Flip of Literature/{{Cinderella}}, with a male Cinderella (played by Lewis, of course), a [[PrinceCharming Princess Charming]], a [[FairyGodmother fairy godfather]] played by Ed Wynn, and two stepbrothers (although the WickedStepmother remains female). |
| 321 | * ''Film/ColorOutOfSpace2020'' changes the Gardners' middle son from [[Literature/TheColourOutOfSpace the original short story]] into a daughter, Lavinia. |
| 322 | * A 1990s adaptation of Creator/MickeySpillane's ''Come Die With Me'' made Literature/MikeHammer's cop buddy Lt. Pat Chambers into ''Patricia'' Chambers. |
| 323 | ** The HumanPopsicle {{Expy}} of Hammer in the comic book ''Mickey Spillane's Mike Danger'' worked with a Lt. Patrick Chandler in the 1950s, but his descendant Patricia after he was thawed out in the future. |
| 324 | * In the American remake of ''Film/LesDiaboliques'', the male detective Finchet became Shirley Vogel, portrayed by Creator/KathyBates. |
| 325 | * With its virtually identical ClearMyName plotline, one could consider the Ashley Judd vehicle ''Film/DoubleJeopardy'' to be a Gender Flip of ''Film/TheFugitive''. Both movies even feature Creator/TommyLeeJones as a lawman who first hunts for, then aids, the fugitive. We even get a misleading 911 call made by the victim [[spoiler:though as the audience soon learns, this was deliberately done in order to ensure that the woman wou78ld be convicted]], as well as the protagonist wailing, "I didn't kill my husband!", similar to Richard Kimble. Indeed, not only was the movie referred to as ''The Female Fugitive'' by several critics, people genuinely needed to be informed that it was NOT another sequel. |
| 326 | * In the live-action adaptation of Creator/OrsonScottCard's ''Film/EndersGame'', the male character of Major Anderson is played by Viola Davis. Interestingly, they were originally going to have ''Graff'' played by a woman (an idea that met with Card's approval), but then Creator/HarrisonFord got the part, so they genderflipped Anderson instead. |
| 327 | * ''Franchise/EvilDead'' |
| 328 | ** Conversely, Creator/BruceCampbell in ''Film/TheEvilDead1981'' plays what is essentially the FinalGirl of the horror movie. It wasn't planned that way, however. The order in which characters died was actually determined by actor availability. If an actor left early in the shoot, his or her character also died early in the movie. Apparently Campbell was the one without a life, though that seems to have worked to his benefit in the long run. |
| 329 | ** In [[Film/EvilDead2013 the remake]][[spoiler: /StealthSequel]], Ash's role is filled by an {{Expy}} named Mia. |
| 330 | * This was done in both adaptations of the Literature/HerculePoirot story ''Evil Under the Sun'' by Creator/AgathaChristie: |
| 331 | ** In the 1982 version, Emily Brewster becomes the flamboyant and effeminate Rex Brewster. |
| 332 | ** In the 2001 version, the victim's teenaged stepdaughter Linda turns into a stepson Lionel. |
| 333 | * The film ''Film/EyeInTheSky'''s protagonist Colonel Powell was originally written to be a male. It was changed to a female, played by Helen Mirren. |
| 334 | * ''Film/FrightNight2NewBlood'' is supposedly a sequel to [[Film/FrightNight2011 the 2011 remake]] of [[Film/FrightNight1985 the 1985 movie]], but it's really just another remake with Jerry (renamed Gerri) as a female vampire. Oh, and [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace it's set in Romania instead of the United States]]. |
| 335 | * In the original ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'', the eponymous ghost-hunting team is made up of four men with a female secretary. In [[Film/Ghostbusters2016 the 2016 remake]], the team is all-female and their secretary is a man. |
| 336 | * The plot of ''Film/Grease2'' is basically a flip of the first movie's plot. The guy is now the naïve, sweet one and the girl is the tough, experienced gang member. |
| 337 | * In the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' books, every player on the Slytherin Quidditch team either has a male first name or is referred to only by their surname. In the first film, however, their Keeper (Miles Bletchley in the book) is replaced by a girl. |
| 338 | * Double subverted in the short film ''Film/HighAndTight'' where the third Olsen sibling was first a boy called Seth - then changed to a girl called Serena. Then when the original actress dropped out and no replacements could be found in time, the character became a boy again. |
| 339 | * ''Film/HeadOverHeels2001'' is a gender-flipped romantic comedy version of ''Film/RearWindow''. |
| 340 | * The Creator/HowardHawks classic newspaper comedy ''Film/HisGirlFriday'' is a gender-flipped version of the play ''The Front Page'' (which had already been made into an acclaimed movie once before). Hawks turned the "Hildy Johnson" character into a woman and made it a romantic comedy. Creator/BillyWilder later remade it yet again with two male protagonists, and then an '80s remake called ''Switching Channels'' - set this time in the television news industry - put the romance aspect back. |
| 341 | * In a WhatCouldHaveBeen example, when ''Film/DonnieDarko'' director Richard Kelly was offered the chance to helm a film adaptation of Louis Sachar's ''Literature/{{Holes}}'', his screenplay for the movie changed the female warden of Camp Green Lake (real name [[GenderBlenderName Lou Walker]]) to an unnamed man--among many, ''many'' other changes [[InNameOnly that left the story almost unrecognizable]]. |
| 342 | * The MadeForTVMovie ''How to Marry a Billionaire'' is a SettingUpdate of ''Film/HowToMarryAMillionaire'', except it's about three men looking for rich wives. |
| 343 | * In the later ''Film/JamesBond'' films (starring Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig) the character of M is played by Judi Dench. |
| 344 | * The ''Film/JemAndTheHolograms2015'' movie sees Eric Raymond from ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' turned into a woman (Eric'''a'''). [[spoiler:She's also Rio's mother]]. |
| 345 | * In both Disney's [[Film/TheJungleBook2016 2016 live action adaptation]] of ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967'' and Warner Bros' [[Film/{{Mowgli}} 2018 live action adaptation]] of same, the giant snake Kaa is now a female. The major difference being that she's a [[AdaptationalVillainy villain]] in the 2016 work, a [[TruerToTheText hero]] in the 2018 one. |
| 346 | * The film adaptation of ''Film/JurassicPark'' switched the roles of Hammond's grandchildren, making Lex (the girl) the older one and the computer genius. This was done in order to give Lex more characterization. In the original novel Tim was a TeenGenius that was both computer savvy and obsessed with dinosaurs, while Lex was just annoying. |
| 347 | * Gazelle was a man in ''ComicBook/TheSecretService'', but a woman in ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService''. |
| 348 | * In the [[Film/KPax film adaptation of]] ''Literature/KPax'', the novels' Dr. Klaus Villars -- a white, bearded, German-accented, classically Freud-reminiscent psychiatrist -- becomes Dr. Claudia Villars, a female Black-American played by Alfre Woodard. |
| 349 | * ''Film/LegendOfEightSamurai'' has one of the eight half-brothers changed from a crossdressing male to a female portrayed by Creator/SueShiomi. |
| 350 | * Creator/KennethBranagh's 2000 film adaptation of ''Theatre/LovesLaboursLost'' changed Holofernes into Holofernia, played by Geraldine [=McEwan=]. |
| 351 | * The Creator/PatrickDempsey film ''Made of Honor'' is clearly this of the ''Creator/JuliaRoberts'' vehicle ''Film/MyBestFriendsWedding'', given their identical plots--person realizes that they're in love with their opposite-sex best friend just as said friend announces their engagement, is roped into being part of the bridal party and spends the ensuing time pulling numerous manipulative stunts to break up the relationship. In true DoubleStandard style, Julia Roberts character, a woman, is blasted for her behavior and does NOT get the guy, whereas Patrick Dempsey ends up married to the girl. |
| 352 | * The original Music/{{ABBA}} recording of "Does Your Mother Know?" was an older man singing to a barely (or possibly not quite) legal girl, whereas in ''Theatre/MammaMia'' it's flipped to a middle-aged woman singing to the very persistent and very young man who's pursuing her. |
| 353 | * In place of Jimmy Olsen at the Daily Planet is a young woman named Jenny in ''Film/ManOfSteel''. [[FlipFlopOfGod However]] Jenny's last name is confirmed NOT to be Olsen, so there is room for a red headed male photographer in the sequel. If you pay attention, the movie shows her last name to be "Jurwich"... but one tie-in book makes it Olsen, so it's hard to say for sure. |
| 354 | * Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse: |
| 355 | ** In ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}'s [[spoiler: youngest child is changed from a girl named Natasha (named for Black Widow) to a boy named Nathaniel.]] Lampshaded in-universe, as they mention that they were expecting a girl. |
| 356 | ** In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'', Mainframe is a female android voiced by Creator/MileyCyrus, despite being a male, futuristic counterpart of ComicBook/TheVision. |
| 357 | ** In ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'', Ghost goes from being a white man to a [[RaceLift biracial]] woman. |
| 358 | ** ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'': |
| 359 | *** [[spoiler: [[ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}} Mar-Vell]] is a woman, played by Creator/AnnetteBening. The character's human alter ego is consequently changed from "Walter Lawson" to "Wendy Lawson."]] |
| 360 | *** Complicated example with the Kree Supreme Intelligence. [[spoiler: In the comics, the Supreme Intelligence is basically a giant floating head, but has nonetheless often been referred to with male pronouns (or none at all), and has always been voiced by male actors whenever it showed up in TV shows and video games. In the film, however, the Supreme Intelligence takes on a form unique to whoever it is talking to, meaning that when it appears onscreen to commune with Carol Danvers, it looks like the aforementioned Mar-Vell and is once again played by Bening.]] |
| 361 | ** In ''The Eternals'', the characters Makkari, Ajak and Sprite, all of whom are men in the [[ComicBook/TheEternals the original comics]], are played by women. |
| 362 | * Creator/VanessaRedgrave's role in ''Film/MissionImpossible'' was originally written for a man. |
| 363 | * Jacob Portman’s male psychiatrist Dr. Golan from ''Literature/MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarChildren'' is played by actress Creator/AllisonJanney in [[Film/MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarChildren the film adaptation]], subverted in that like in the book [[spoiler:Dr. Golan turns out to be the false identity of a male Wight]]. |
| 364 | * In the Creator/JossWhedon film of Shakespeare's ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'', one of the villain's lackeys, named Conrad, is female. The part has always been, in the past, a basic male role. |
| 365 | * In ''Film/MuppetTreasureIsland'', Ben Gunn from ''Literature/TreasureIsland'' is changed to Benjamina Gunn just so [[Franchise/TheMuppets Miss Piggy]] can have a role to play. |
| 366 | * The character Carin from ''Film/PatchAdams'' is a female medical student who Patch has a romantic relationship with, was molested as a child and is eventually killed by a mentally ill patient. In reality, "she" was Hunter Adams' best male friend, who he did not have a romantic relationship with, and while he was killed under similar circumstances, it was much earlier than the film depicts. This was one of the many reasons the RealLife Hunter Adams has openly criticised the movie based on his life. |
| 367 | * ''Film/{{Ran}}'' is a partial Gender Flip of ''Theatre/KingLear'', changing the gender of the daughters and Edmund. |
| 368 | * The [[Film/TheRelic film adaptation]] of ''Literature/TheRelic'' saw Linda Hunt play the museum director Anne Cuthbert, a character who, in the original novel, was a man named Ian Cuthbert. |
| 369 | * ''Film/RoboCop2014'' sees Anne Lewis changed into an [[RaceLift African-American]] man named [[AdaptationNameChange Jack]] Lewis. Conversely, Chief Dean is a female version of Sgt. Reed. |
| 370 | * Most shadowcasts of ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' will let anyone, regardless of gender, audition for any part. ("Genderfuck" versions specifically gender flip ''all'' the roles.) |
| 371 | * ''Film/RoughNight'' is the same premise as ''Film/VeryBadThings'' with the genders reversed. |
| 372 | * The title character of ''Film/{{Salt}}'' was originally named Edward and played by Creator/TomCruise, but he dropped out. When Creator/AngelinaJolie stepped in, the writers changed Ed to Evelyn and also decided to make Salt's spouse less of a DamselInDistress. |
| 373 | * The film version of ''[[Series/ThePhilSilversShow Sgt. Bilko]]'' turned Cpl Rocky Barbella into Cpl Raquelle Barbella. (Bilko's other sidekick, Cpl Henshaw, was given a RaceLift). |
| 374 | * The movie adaptation of ''Film/SilentHill'' replaced Harry Mason with Rose Dasilva. The idea was to play up the notion that a mother is even more attached to her child than a father, particularly if the child is a girl. Interestingly, the father was played by Creator/SeanBean, who does look a bit like Harry Mason. In the sequel, Bean's character has taken the name Harry Mason, but still isn't the protagonist. |
| 375 | * Spotted in ''Film/SonOfMan'', an adaptation of the story of Jesus Christ that takes place in modern Africa. Several of the disciples are portrayed by women, with feminized versions of their original names to match. |
| 376 | * The character of Dizzy Flores in ''Franchise/StarshipTroopers'' was a man in the [[Literature/StarshipTroopers original Robert A. Heinlein novel]]. In the [[Film/StarshipTroopers movie]], he was switched to a she, given a much bigger role, and played by Dina Meyers. ''WesternAnimation/RoughnecksStarshipTroopersChronicles'' followed the movie's lead. [[note]]It may be more accurate to say that Dizzy Flores was turned into a character, as well as a woman, in the movie. In the book, Dizzy has no lines, only appears near the end of chapter 1, and dies at the end of it.[[/note]] |
| 377 | * The 1996 made-for-TV movie, ''The Stepford Husbands'' is, as its name suggests, ''Literature/TheStepfordWives'' with the gender roles reversed-this time it's the women seeking to make their husbands "perfect". |
| 378 | * The original screenplay for ''Film/StreetsOfFire'' had the role of [=McCoy=], the hero's old army buddy, written as a male. Actress Amy Madigan, while auditioning for a different role, convinced the filmmakers to let her play [=McCoy=] as a tough, strong woman instead, without rewriting the part. |
| 379 | * The ''Film/{{Suicide Squad|2016}}'' sequel makes the Ratcatcher, a middle-aged male in the comics, into a teenage girl. |
| 380 | * In ''The Survivor'', Hobbs (played by Creator/JennyAgutter) was a man in Creator/JamesHerbert's original novel. |
| 381 | * In ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014'', April's boss Burne Thompson is now an [[RaceLift African-American]] woman named Bernadette Thompson, played by Creator/WhoopiGoldberg. |
| 382 | * In ''Film/TheTempest2010'' directed by Julie Taymor, the character Prospero is changed to Prospera and played by Creator/HelenMirren. |
| 383 | * ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie'': In "Kick the Can", the Sunnyvale Retirement Home administrator is Miss Cox. In [[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E21KickTheCan the original episode]], it is Mr. Cox. |
| 384 | * And it happened again during the production of ''Film/VantagePoint'' (2008), where Sigourney Weaver played the also originally male TV producer Rex Brooks. |
| 385 | * In ''Film/WarCraft2016'', [[spoiler:Alodi]], who's male in the game the film's based on, is female (or at least [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith female-appearing]]). |
| 386 | * ''Film/WeeWillieWinkie'' was based on a Creator/RudyardKipling short story in which the protagonist was a little boy. When the story was adapted for the screen, it became a Creator/ShirleyTemple vehicle, and the main character became a girl. |
| 387 | * In the original novel version of ''Film/WintersBone'', protagonist Ree had two younger brothers. In the film version, one of them is a girl. |
| 388 | * In BMovie series ''Witchcraft'' (possibly best known from Creator/AllisonPregler's reviews) a police officer named Lutz first appears as a man in the sixth film and is suddenly a woman in the seventh, with no explanation. The thirteenth and final film, in its valiant attempts to close all the series' {{Plot Hole}}s, {{Ret Con}}ned the two Lutzes into siblings. |
| 389 | * ''Film/TheHustle'' is ''Film/DirtyRottenScoundrels'' with conwomen preying on men instead of conmen preying on women. The tagline "Giving Dirty Rotten Men a Run for Their Money" acknowledges this. |
| 390 | * In ''Film/TheReturnOfSherlockHolmes'', Doctor Watson is a woman, played by actress Bessie Nellis. |
| 391 | * Creator/JessicaChastain's character in ''Film/DarkPhoenix'' is [[spoiler: Vuk, a very obscure male alien who showed up back in ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' #4 during TheSixties]]. |
| 392 | * ''Film/Cats2019'', an adapatation of ''Theatre/{{Cats}}'', Old Deuteronomy (who is male in the musical and the [[Literature/OldPossumsBookofPracticalCats source material]]) is played by actress Creator/JudiDench. |
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| 394 | |
| 395 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 396 | * The Mina Davis books ''Literature/HungoverAndHandcuffed'' and ''Literature/AssholeYakuzaBoyfriend'' are gender-flipped film noir; the HardboiledDetective is a woman, as is her FriendOnTheForce and TheDon, while the [[FemmeFatale Femme Fatales]] are mostly male. |
| 397 | * ''[[Literature/ThePrincessTales Cinderellis And The GlassHill]]'', by Gail Carson Levine (and based on a Norwegian fairy tale called ''The Princess on the Glass Hill''), makes Cinderella a boy (Ellis, nicknamed 'Cinderellis'), with two older brothers and a princess as a love interest. (But note the comments about Cinderlad above.) |
| 398 | * The ''Literature/KhaavrenRomances'' are a fantasy [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace recycling]] of the ''D'Artagnan Romances'' (''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'' and its sequels). The Porthos-equivalent, Tazendra, is female. This leads to interesting results, as the original is very much a BoisterousBruiser, a character-type almost always male, and applying these traits to Tazendra not only makes her a rare female example, but also results in her having some of the traits of TheLadette. |
| 399 | * ''Literature/{{Matilda}}'': Roald Dahl got the idea of a story about a boy called Billy developing telekinesis, but got writer's block and did a gender flip. |
| 400 | * Trivigaunte, in ''The Book of the Long Sun,'' is essentially a parody of fundamentalist Islam, but with the genders reversed. |
| 401 | * Terry Pratchett is fond of genderswapped gags in his ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' books. |
| 402 | ** In ''Literature/MovingPictures'', a film image of a woman is possessed by an EldritchAbomination, who transforms into a 50-foot monster. It immediately grabs up the Librarian (a male ape), and attempts to climb the 888-foot Tower of Art at Unseen University. |
| 403 | ** ''Literature/EqualRites'' has elements of ''Literature/AWizardOfEarthsea'', with Esk in Ged's role, and Granny Weatherwax as both the unnamed village witch and Ged's mentor Ogion. |
| 404 | ** And then there's the non-Discworld story ''Once and Future'' where a time traveller stuck in the past ends up re-enacting the Myth/KingArthur legend ... except for that the king who pulls the sword from the stone happens to be a woman. |
| 405 | * Marianne Wiggins' ''John Dollar,'' which reworks ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies'' with a group of marooned girls. |
| 406 | * In Literature/TimeScout, one of the theories floating around is that the Ripper Watch Team might be looking for ''Jill'' the Ripper. |
| 407 | * The protagonist of ''Literature/SteelBeach'' by Creator/JohnVarley actually has an EasySexChange, but ''[[InvokedTrope invokes]]'' this trope. The protagonist calls him/herself Hildy Johnson as both a male and female. Hildy is also a reporter in the book, and chose the name. |
| 408 | * GenderBender variants of ''Literature/DrJekyllAndMrHyde'' (where a male Jekyll becomes a female Hyde) are actually fairly common, but ''Two Women Of London: The Strange Case of Ms. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde'' is a feminist Gender Flip version of the story. |
| 409 | * Literature/HonorHarrington, in her role as ''Literature/HoratioHornblower'' JustForFun/InSpace! |
| 410 | * ''Literature/LifeAndDeathTwilightReimagined'' was rewritten by Meyer herself to show that Bella would have [[DamselInDistress reacted the same way]] to all the over-powering supernatural beings around her if she was a guy named Beau (though Beau is described as a little more OCD and a lot less angry). ''Every'' character is flipped save for Bella/Beau's parents, as Meyer felt it would have been harder to justify the dad getting custody and only later moving in with the mom. |
| 411 | * Babette Cole's ''Literature/PrinceCinders'' GenderFlips Cinderella, where Cinders is a skinny spotty fellow forced to clean up after his hairy older brothers and falls in love with a beautiful princess. |
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| 413 | |
| 414 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 415 | * ''Series/TwelveMonkeys'', an adaptation of the [[Film/TwelveMonkeys 1995 movie]], has Jeffrey Goines turn into ''Jennifer'' Goines. |
| 416 | * In ''Series/TheAdventuresOfShirleyHolmes'', Sherlock's descendant and {{Expy}} is his great-grandniece. And her archenemy is [[PunnyName Molly Hardy]]. |
| 417 | * In ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' the African-American PosthumousCharacter Paula Holt becomes a white guy called Paul. [[AdaptationalSexuality Still married to Mr Terrific, though.]] |
| 418 | * In the second series of ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'', Creator/HonorBlackman (as Dr. Cathy Gale) replaced Creator/IanHendry (Dr. David Keel) as John Steed's partner. In her earliest appearances (scripts written much earlier for Hendry), her dialogue was left completely unchanged. This is sometimes credited with making Cathy Gale a particularly memorable female character for the early '60s. |
| 419 | * ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'': |
| 420 | ** Gender Flips Starbuck and Boomer (also a RaceLift) from the original. As often happens with actors who find themselves replaced, Creator/DirkBenedict was less than happy about it, referring to his heir as "Stardoe" (har har). Creator/KevinSmith joked about this when he hosted a ''Battlestar Galactica'' panel at Comic Con. |
| 421 | --->'''Smith:''' ''[to Ron Moore and David Eick]'' I'm glad you guys changed Starbuck into a women. Otherwise it would have made all those kissing scenes with Lee really awkward. |
| 422 | ** Lloyd Bridges' Commander Cain was also revived as Michelle Forbes' (now Admiral) Helena Cain. But they're both equally crazy. |
| 423 | * ''Series/TheBionicWoman'' is a gender flipped reimagining of ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'', at least one episode of which was plot and dialogue identical. At the end, the titular hero has to provide an impromptu explanation of how his or her finger came to be cut. The explanation given in both cases was "I [[CutHimselfShaving cut myself shaving]]". |
| 424 | * Servalan in ''Series/BlakesSeven'' was originally a man and was originally supposed to appear once. Once Jacqueline Pearce entered the picture, that all changed. |
| 425 | * ''Series/TheBoys2019'': Madelyn [[note]]James[[/note]] Stillwell and Grace [[note]]Greg[[/note]] Mallory. Season 2 will see Stormfront played by a woman. |
| 426 | * In the Japanese mini-series ''Chi no Wadachi'', the investigator character is played by Creator/TaoOkamoto. The character was a man in the original novel. |
| 427 | * In the ''Series/DeathNote'' live-action drama, Near, who is a boy in the manga, was played by a teenage girl and deliberately had their gender [[AmbiguousGender left ambiguous]]. |
| 428 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': |
| 429 | ** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E5TheWebPlanet The Web Planet]]", the character Vrestin, leader of the Menoptera war party, was written as male (like all the other Menoptera). However, when casting the character, the cast and crew were impressed with the choreographer hired to create the 'insect movement' and cast her as Vrestin without changing anything in the script besides pronouns, resulting in one of the most powerful ActionGirl supporting characters in 60s ''Who''. Vrestin is male in the Target novelisation of the story (''Doctor Who and the Zarbi''), which is based on the original script. |
| 430 | ** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E1Galaxy4 Galaxy 4]]", the Drahvins were originally all male, until producer Verity Lambert suggested making them all-female. |
| 431 | ** Gia Kelly in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E5TheSeedsOfDeath The Seeds of Death]]" was originally a man. |
| 432 | ** Morgan in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E4ColonyInSpace Colony in Space]]" was originally a woman, with Susan James cast in the role. However, she was replaced by Tony Caunter when the BBC's Head of Drama Serials made an unusual intervention and decided the role was inappropriate for a woman to perform. James was nevertheless paid in full. |
| 433 | ** The human president in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E3FrontierInSpace Frontier in Space]]" was originally a man. |
| 434 | ** Bettan in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks Genesis of the Daleks]]" was originally a man. Aside from Sarah Jane Smith, she's the only female character in the story. |
| 435 | ** Marn in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E4TheSunMakers The Sun Makers]]" was originally a man. |
| 436 | ** Dr. Solow and Preston in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E1WarriorsOfTheDeep Warriors of the Deep]]" were originally men, until director Pennant Roberts made them female. Roberts usually gender-flipped at least one role in every story he directed. |
| 437 | ** Averted in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E7TheTwinDilemma The Twin Dilemma]]", as Creator/JohnNathanTurner was encouraged to cast two more experienced female actresses in the roles of the CreepyTwins, but chose male actors because he believed it was crucial the characters be boys for the script to work. He [[RuleOfSymbolism may have had a point about this]] (the twins can be read as a PlotParallel for the Doctor's fragmented personality following his regeneration). |
| 438 | ** The stage play adaptation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E5TheRobotsOfDeath The Robots of Death]]" turns Uvanov, Borg, Cass and Dask into women. One would think that this was being done to obscure which character is secretly the pro-robotist terrorist Taren Capel, but the main characters refer to Taren as 'she' from the beginning. Another side effect of this is that it means the only surviving male character of the story is Poul (who exists as a gibbering vegetable). |
| 439 | ** Pope Benedict IX is portrayed as a woman in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E6Extremis Extremis]]". Considering the scandalous nature of his reign, this was probably much safer than portraying him accurately. It also doubles as a ShoutOut to the legend of Pope Joan. However, [[spoiler:it's later revealed that nearly the entirety of the episode was part of a simulation.]] |
| 440 | * In ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', Van Helsing is a man. In ''Series/Dracula2020'', there are [[DecompositeCharacter two]] Van Helsings, both female. |
| 441 | * In another Franchise/SherlockHolmes adaptation, ''Series/{{Elementary}}'', John Watson has been changed to Joan Watson and is played by Creator/LucyLiu. As Liu is Chinese American, this is a RaceLift [[TwoferTokenMinority as well]]. Also, [[spoiler: Moriarty]] is now a [[spoiler: woman]] and is combined with [[spoiler:Irene]]. |
| 442 | * One of the episodes of the new ''Series/FantasyIsland'' featured a terminally ill woman who wanted to experience life as a soldier in a combat zone. Instead of being placed with a company of male soldiers like she expected, she was placed in a gender-reversed version of TheSquad, which was filled with the requisite roughneck personality types, only with women playing the roles. |
| 443 | * ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'': |
| 444 | ** A crossover event between that show and ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' introduced a GenderFlip of ComicBook/TheAtom's enemy, the Bug-Eyed Bandit, with "Bertram Larvan" becoming "Brie Larvan" (portrayed by Creator/EmilyKinney). |
| 445 | ** Season 3 introduces the Top as a young woman, with the character's name changed from "Roscoe Dillon" to "Rosalind 'Rosa' Dillon" (portrayed by Ashley Rickards). |
| 446 | ** Season 4's "Luck Be A Lady", introduces Becky "Hazard" Sharp, who is female in both the series and the comics ... except the details of how her WindsOfDestinyChange powers work are altered slightly to essentially make her a gender flip of Amos Fortune, specifically the way he's presented in ''[[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational Justice League Europe]]''. |
| 447 | ** Season 4 also introduces the show's version of Black Bison, who is a woman named Mina Chayton instead of a man named John Ravenhair. |
| 448 | ** Also in Season 4 is a version of Fiddler, who instead of an elderly man named Isaac Bowen is a younger woman named Izzy Bowen. |
| 449 | ** And obscure ''ComicBook/{{Hawkman}}'' character Null, who's a woman named Janet Petty instead of a man named, well, Null, as far as we know. |
| 450 | ** Joss Jackam, the Weather Witch, is very loosely based on Weather Wizard's son in the comics, Josh Jackam. |
| 451 | ** Season 5 introduces Spin, who is changed from a man known only as Mr. Auerbach to a woman named Spencer Young. |
| 452 | ** Evan [=McCulloch=], a.k.a Mirror Master II, is adapted as Eva [=McCulloch=]. |
| 453 | * In the TV movie that inspired ''Series/ForeverKnight'', the medical examiner and SecretKeeper who'd met Nick when he woke up in the morgue had been male. |
| 454 | * ''Series/FullerHouse'' flips the genders of its antecedent series. In the original, Danny Tanner (a man) raised three girls with help from his two pals (also men), in the new show, DJ Tanner (a woman) raises three boys with help from her two pals (women). |
| 455 | * ''Series/GameOfThrones'': |
| 456 | ** For an unknown reason, the Dornish practise of open succession (i.e a firstborn girl inherits before her younger brother) was erased. This leads to some notable Dornish ladies who rule in their own right being changed into men. In particular, Oberyn refers to his father as being Prince of Dorne before him, when in actual fact his mother was the reigning Princess. And in the books, the head of the delegation Tyrion meets outside King's Landing is a woman. An HBO press release named Prince Trystane rather than [[AdaptedOut Princess Arianne]] as the heir to Prince Doran Martell. |
| 457 | ** Bronn's betrothed Lollys is said to be a daughter of ''Lord'' Stokeworth rather than the elderly Lady Tanda Stokeworth of the novels. |
| 458 | ** House Cerwyn was actually headed by a ''woman'' at the point in the novels where they are introduced in the show, Jonelle Cerwyn, after the Boltons killed her father and brother. The TV version omitted Jonelle and kept her brother alive — actually part of a pattern of gender-swapping minor background vassals from female to male. |
| 459 | * ''Series/TheGoldbergs'' depicts producer Adam Goldberg's life in TheEighties, but with one major difference: in real life, he has two brothers, Barry and Eric. On the show, he has a brother Barry and a sister Erica. |
| 460 | ** This particular example gets an InUniverse inversion in "8-Bit Goldbergs". In Adam's computer game based on his family, Erica is replaced by a man named Eric and her boyfriend Geoff Schwartz becomes Eric's girlfriend Geoffina. |
| 461 | * ''Series/GoodOmens2019'': Pollution is nonbinary, referred to in the narration as "they", and played by a woman. Beelzebub is a woman as well, as are the Archangels Michael and Uriel, and most notably God Herself (but she's a just a voice). |
| 462 | * ''Series/{{Gotham}}'' changes Firefly from a white male named Garfield Lynns to a young Latina woman named Bridget Pike (played by Michelle Veintimilla). |
| 463 | * A zig-zagged example takes place in Series/HallmarkHallOfFame's 2005 miniseries ''Hercules''. In this adaptation, the Nemean Lion is a male animal, but it can turn into a beautiful woman in order to seduce their enemies into letting their guard down. Then again, the miniseries fuses this character with the Theban Sphynx, so the monster is probably female after all, only that its true form looks like a male lion. |
| 464 | * ''Literature/RedDragon'''s male reporter Freddie Lounds becomes the female reporter Fredricka Lounds in the TV adaptation ''Series/{{Hannibal}}''. In the same show, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Alan Bloom becomes Alana Bloom and is given some angsty {{UST}} with Will Graham. |
| 465 | * The 2010 remake of ''Series/HawaiiFive0'' makes Kono a woman (renamed Kona, but still nicknamed "Kono"). She's played by Grace Park, who was previously best known as the gender-flipped Boomer in ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}''. |
| 466 | * ''It Happened One Christmas'' (1977) is a TV-Movie Gender Flip of ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'' starring Marlo Thomas. Played completely straight. |
| 467 | * ''Literature/HighFidelity'': Rob, originally a man in the book, film and musical is made a woman for the series. |
| 468 | * ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' spoofs the trope in "The Gang Beats Boggs: Ladies' Reboot", where Dee leads a delegation of the show's female characters in rehashing the concept of a previous EpisodeOnAPlane. Artemis keeps complaining that the idea is lazy and suggesting that they do something new instead. |
| 469 | * Jeryn Hogarth, a male lawyer in the comics, is played by Creator/CarrieAnneMoss in ''Series/JessicaJones2015'', with the character becoming "Jeri Hogarth" instead. [[AdaptationalSexuality Still attracted to women, though.]] |
| 470 | * ''The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story'' gender-bends Bagheera - and Bagheera alone - so that s/he's a female for the duration of a movie. This is probably so that Mowgli can have a mother-figure without adding in Mother Wolf, the she-wolf from the book, but it can be a little odd for a kid only familiar with the Disney version. |
| 471 | ** It's not the first time that Bagheera was a female. The Soviet series ''Animation/AdventuresOfMowgli'' did the same. Due to how Bagheera has a feminine pronunciation in Russian. |
| 472 | * In ''Series/{{Krypton}}'', the terrorist Jax-Ur is an attractive woman in her 40's instead of an old man. |
| 473 | * In the 2018 ''Series/{{Lost in Space|2018}}'' reboot, Dr. Zachary Smith is now a woman played by Creator/ParkerPosey. [[spoiler:In a subversion, it actually turns out that "Dr. Smith" is a con woman who stole the identity of this continuity's Zachary Smith.]] |
| 474 | * In ''Series/MacGyver1985'', the title character took his orders from Pete Thornton. In the [[Series/MacGyver2016 reboot]], this role is filled by ''Patricia'' Thornton [[spoiler: until she's discovered to be a mole for the enemy, arrested, and replaced by Matty Webber.]] |
| 475 | * ''Series/Missing2012'' (female secret agent searches for her kidnapped son) seems to be a gender-flipped TV version of ''Film/{{Taken}}'' (male ex-secret agent searches for his kidnapped daughter). |
| 476 | * In-universe example: In the ''Series/{{Monk}}'' episode "Mr. Monk and the Actor", there's a movie adaptation being made of the Steve Wagner case (in "Mr. Monk and the Astronaut"). In this movie, Monk is played by method actor David Ruskin (Creator/StanleyTucci), Natalie is played by a blonde actress, and Captain Stottlemeyer is a cameo appearance by Creator/PeterWeller. As for Randy Disher, he was wholly expecting Creator/BradPitt to be portraying him in the movie. Instead, Randy is replaced with a gorgeous brunette actress who becomes a love interest for Captain Stottlemeyer. The real Stottlemeyer and Disher don't know this when they show up on the set to watch a rehearsal, leading to a ''very'' awkward moment when the actors lean in for a kiss. |
| 477 | -->'''Captain Leland Stottlemeyer:''' That ''never happened''.\ |
| 478 | '''Lt. Randall Disher:''' Not even once. |
| 479 | * Creator/TheBBC's 2012 SettingUpdate of ''Literature/NicholasNickleby'' has Nick working at a BleakAbyssRetirementHome called Dotheolds Hall, in place of the BoardingSchoolOfHorrors Dotheboys Hall. Smike, the "simple" boy Nicholas befriends and rescues from the place, becomes a senile old lady named Mrs. Smike. |
| 480 | * In ''Literature/TheNightmareRoom'' episode "My Name Is Evil", the protagonist is male when she was female in the original story. The protagonist's peers were similarly gender flipped. |
| 481 | * ''Series/OnceUponATime'' changes Jack the Giant Killer to ''Jacqueline'' the Giant Killer. |
| 482 | * ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'': In "I, Robot", Dr. Charles Link's closest living relative is his niece Nina. In the 1939 short story "The Trial of Adam Link, Robot" by Eando Binder on which it is based, his closest relative is his nephew Tom. |
| 483 | * ''Franchise/PowerRangers'': |
| 484 | ** When ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'' was "[[ForeignRemake remade]]" into ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', the male Tiger Ranger became the female Yellow Ranger in order to have [[TwoGirlsToATeam two female Rangers]] instead of [[SmurfettePrinciple just one]]. This practice was later repeated when four later ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' shows were adapted into ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' seasons: the male Yellow Rangers from ''[[Series/SeijuuSentaiGingaman Gingaman]]'', ''[[Series/RescueSentaiGoGoFive Gogo-V]]'', ''[[Series/MiraiSentaiTimeranger Timeranger]]'' and ''[[Series/HyakujuuSentaiGaoranger Gaoranger]]'' were turned into females in their corresponding adaptations (''[[Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy Lost Galaxy]]'', ''[[Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue Lightspeed Rescue]]'', ''[[Series/PowerRangersTimeForce Time Force]]'' and ''[[Series/PowerRangersWildForce Wild Force]]''). This practice would cause inconsistencies between the imported Japanese footage and the locally-filmed new footage, in which the Yellow Ranger would switch from having a masculine figure in one scene to having a feminine one in the next. The less said about [[RuleThirtyFour what the fanfic community made of this]], the better. |
| 485 | ** The effects of this trope are best seen in the seasons that are actual adaptations of the source show, as the original would only use fight footage rather than adapting episode plots. For example: |
| 486 | ** Katie from ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'' was made similar to Domon from ''Timeranger'', although many of the latter's traits were given to Lucas and Trip. From what was left, Domon's nostalgia for sumo wrestling competitions got adapted as Katie missing her family, a much more emotional and feminine intake on the feeling; similarly, the subplot with Domon's relationship with a female photographer who discovered his identity was changed to a one-off deal between Katie and a male photographer who unmasked her that didn't go anywhere, due to males pursuing relationships being less common (and to make room for focus on the [[SpotlightStealingSquad Rangers who wore any]] [[LawOfChromaticSuperiority shade of red]]). |
| 487 | ** Taylor from ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'', on the other hand, was almost identical to Gaku from ''Gaoranger'' in terms of background and plot, the only major differences being personality (Taylor was a bold DefrostingIceQueen, Gaku was friendly from the very beginning and somewhat quirky) and rank (Taylor was a lieutenant, whereas Gaku was a soldier). As a female {{Lancer}} was proven successful the previous season, Taylor got a better end of the stick than her yellow predecessor, who was TheBigGuy and therefore more expendable. |
| 488 | * ''Series/QueenOfSwords'' was pretty much a straight Gender Flip of {{Franchise/Zorro}}, to the point that Sony sued over its resemblance to the character and its 1998 ''Film/TheMaskOfZorro'' film.[[note]]The judge ruled against Sony, holding that both the original Zorro story and its first (1920) film adaptation were now in the public domain, and any similarities to the 1998 film were incidental.[[/note]] |
| 489 | * The crew of the ''Series/RedDwarf'' ''meet'' the Gender Flipped versions of themselves in a parallel universe. Although, not all of them were flipped. The Cat, the ultimate narcissist, is looking forward to meeting the feminine version of himself for... obvious reasons. However, his opposite number is a male Dog with zero dress sense. |
| 490 | ** Eventually, when Creator/NormanLovett, who played Holly, left, they just hired Creator/HattieHayridge, who played his Gender Flip Hilly and said that Holly got a sex change to look like Hilly. |
| 491 | ** Captain Hollister is a man in the TV series, and a woman in the tie-in novels. |
| 492 | ** In the second pilot for the US version, the Cat was played by Terry Farrell (who would go on to be Jadzia in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'') as a "feline warrior woman". (The original pilot had Hinton Battle playing the role much as Danny John-Jules did.) In the end, the American remake never aired anyway. |
| 493 | * ''Series/Revenge2011'', a modern day reimagining of ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'', gender flips the protagonist Edmond Dantes to be Emily Thorne. Rather than having been framed herself like Edmond, Emily is the daughter of a man who was framed and falsely imprisoned. |
| 494 | * In the anthology series ''The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes'', one episode adapts Robert Barr's "The Absent-Minded Coterie". The clever Mr. Macpherson becomes the equally clever Miss Mackail. |
| 495 | * Djaq in ''Series/RobinHood'' is a Gender Flip of the Saracen outlaw seen in ''Series/RobinOfSherwood'' (Nassir) and ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'' (Azeem). ... And ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'' (Achoo). |
| 496 | * The American remake of the Australian show ''Secrets & Lies'' transforms lead investigator Ian Cornielle into Andrea Cornell. |
| 497 | * Due to being unable to find suitable actresses, the Indian remake of ''Series/ShakeItUp'' rewrote the leads as boys. |
| 498 | * ''Series/{{Sherlock}}''; |
| 499 | ** Watson's brother, "H. Watson", mentioned in "The Sign of Four", becomes John's ''sister'', Harry. |
| 500 | ** "[[Recap/SherlockS02E02TheHoundsOfBaskerville The Hounds of Baskerville]]": Dr. James Mortimer becomes Dr. Louise Mortimer. |
| 501 | ** Laura Lyons becomes a young, male Corporal Lyons. |
| 502 | ** Stapleton is a trickier case; there's a Mr. Stapleton and Miss Stapleton in the book, but only one (female) Dr. Stapleton in the programme. The plot's been changed sufficiently that you can't tell which one she's meant to be by her actions. |
| 503 | ** The King of Bohemia becomes an unnamed female British royal in "[[Recap/SherlockS02E01AScandalInBelgravia A Scandal in Belgravia]]". |
| 504 | ** In John's CharacterBlog, Dr Barnicot from "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons" becomes [[http://www.johnwatsonblog.co.uk/blog/19december Sally Barnicot]]. |
| 505 | ** In the actual episode "[[Recap/SherlockS04E01TheSixThatchers The Six Thatchers]]", which probably makes the above blog post CanonDiscontinuity, there is a brief reference to one of the busts belonging to a Miss Orrie Harker, counterpart to the original's Horace Harker. |
| 506 | * In the American version of ''Series/{{Skins}}'', most characters are transplanted from the British series except for the openly gay Maxxie. Maxxie becomes the lesbian Tea. The fact that they followed the same storyline with the character sleeping with Tony has several UnfortunateImplications. |
| 507 | * In ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', Creator/GeneRoddenberry sort of gender flipped the First Officer role, which was originally written as an emotionally distant, supremely rational NumberTwo (named "Number One".) NBC objected, however (not due to the casting of a female so much as the casting of the ''particular'' female, Majel Barrett, who happened to be Roddenberry's mistress at the time.) While different in several ways (most obviously, being an alien), Mr. Spock essentially assumed both her role as First Officer and her [[TheSpock rationality and lack of emotion]]. |
| 508 | * In ''Series/Supergirl2015'', Dr. Emil Hamilton is changed to Dr. Amelia Hamilton. |
| 509 | * The CBS All Access adaptation of ''Literature/TheStand'' changed the Rat Man into the Rat Woman. |
| 510 | * When a {{Revival}} of ''Series/TheTimeTunnel'' was attempted in 2002, male scientist Dr. ''Tony'' Newman was changed to female scientist Dr. ''Toni'' Newman. |
| 511 | * ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': |
| 512 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E16TheHitchHiker The Hitch-Hiker]]", the protagonist is a woman named Nan Adams. In ''The Orson Welles Show'' radio play by Lucille Fletcher on which it was based, the protagonist is a man named Ronald Adams. [[CreatorBacklash Fletcher was not pleased by this change]]. Furthermore, in the radio version, Ronald picks up a woman and briefly gives her a lift but she leaves after he tries to run over the hitch-hiker. In the television version, Nan gives a lift to a male sailor, who leaves for the same reason. |
| 513 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E24ToServeMan To Serve Man]]", a translator named Betty discovers [[ToServeMan the true meaning]] of the Kanamit book ''To Serve Man''. In the short story by Creator/DamonKnight, it is a man named Gregori. |
| 514 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E29FourOClock Four O'Clock]]", Oliver Crangle's parrot is a male named Pete. In the short story by Price Day, the parrot is a female named [[ADogNamedDog Pet]]. |
| 515 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S4E5Mute Mute]]", the telepathic child is a girl named Ilse Nielsen while the Wheelers have lost their daughter Sally. In the short story by Creator/RichardMatheson, the telepathic child is a boy named Paal Nielsen while the Wheelers have lost their son David. |
| 516 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S4E14OfLateIThinkOfCliffordville Of Late I Think of Cliffordville]]", Satan appears to William J. Feathersmith in the form of Miss Devlin. In the short story "Blind Alley" by Malcolm Jameson, Satan (most commonly called His Nibs) assumes a male form with the conventional appearance of "the vermilion anthropoid modified by barbed tail, cloven hoofs, horns and a wonderful sardonic leer." |
| 517 | * ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': |
| 518 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E9 Dead Woman's Shoes]]", Maddie Duncan is possessed by the spirit of a murdered woman named Susan Montgomery when she puts on her expensive high heels. In the original episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E18DeadMansShoes Dead Man's Shoes]]", the murdered gangster Dane's personality takes control of a homeless man named Nate Bledsoe when he puts on his two-tone black and white shoes. |
| 519 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E16 To See the Invisible Man]]", Mitchell Chaplin meets an invisible woman who refuses to talk to him during his own sentence of invisibility. He later acknowledges her presence once he has completed his sentence. In the short story by Creator/RobertSilverberg, the other invisible person was a man. |
| 520 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E23 Shadow Play]]", Adam Grant's defense attorney Erin Jacobs goes to the district attorney Mark Ritchie over her concerns that Adam may be telling the truth about all of them being characters in his [[RecurringDreams recurring nightmare]] about being executed. In [[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E26ShadowPlay the original episode]], the matter was first raised by the [[AdaptationalJobChange newspaper editor]] Paul Carson. |
| 521 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S3E16 The Cold Equations]]", the Ship's Record clerk is a woman. In the [[Literature/TheColdEquations short story]] by Tom Godwin, the clerk is a man. |
| 522 | * In the books of ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'' Elena had a 4-year-old sister. In the TV show, she has a teenage brother. The boarding house Stefan stayed in was also owned by an elderly woman instead of Stefan's and Damon's "uncle". |
| 523 | * This isn't unique to ''Power Rangers'' either. Priest Poe from ''Series/SpaceSheriffShaider'' was a transvestite, but his ''Series/VRTroopers'' equivalent was a woman named Despera. |
| 524 | * ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010'' did this to few notable characters from the comics: |
| 525 | ** The male Dr. Stevens from the comics subverts this. His name was given to a woman, [[InNameOnly but it turned out]] that he's a DecompositeCharacter, and Dr. Stevens' CharacterDevelopment from the comics was given to Milton Mamet who is also male. |
| 526 | ** Twins Ben and Billy became sisters Lizzie ([[AgeLift older]]) and Mika (younger) respectively. [[InNameOnly Ben did appeared]] [[DecompositeCharacter beforehand though]]. |
| 527 | ** In Season 5, Alexandria Safe-Zone's first couple Douglas and Regina Monroe respectively gets introduced as Deanna and Reg Monroe. |
| 528 | * ''Series/Warehouse13'' plays with this trope; H.G. Wells is split into two people; the real H.G. Wells is Helena G. Wells, the genius inventor, adventurer, and warehouse agent. The man recognized as Creator/HGWells is her older brother Charles, who chronicled her adventures using her abbreviated name as a pen name. |
| 529 | * ''Series/WillAndGrace''. Will wanted to stage an all-male rendition of ''Literature/BenHur'' titled "Ben-Him". Grace mentioned her mother appeared as "Millie Loman" in "Death of a Sales Lady". Grace's mother also mentions not even wanting to audition for 'The Ice-Person Cometh'. |
| 530 | * The title character in Creator/{{NBC}}'s live broadcast of ''Theatre/TheWiz'' is played by Music/QueenLatifah: |
| 531 | -->'''Dorothy''': The Wiz is...\ |
| 532 | '''Cowardly Lion''': ...a fraud!\ |
| 533 | '''Tinman''': ...and a woman!\ |
| 534 | '''Dorothy''': ''And what's wrong with being a woman?'' |
| 535 | [[/folder]] |
| 536 | |
| 537 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 538 | * The Music/{{Vocaloid}} song in the Music/EvilliousChronicles, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV99NZmurVA Lunacy of Duke Venomania]]'' by Music/{{Mothy}}, features the eponymous duke, played by Gakupo, converting various women into his sex slaves. Then comes ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL1_EDMJZYM The Madness of Miss Venomania]]'' from fans, which changes the protagonist to a girl, played by Luka, but subverts the trope by [[LesYay keeping all of her victims female]] (though there are heterosexual female versions if you look around). |
| 539 | * The She & Him version of "Baby, It's Cold Outside" has Creator/ZooeyDeschanel singing the (usually male) "Wolf" part and M. Ward doing the (usually female) "Mouse" part. |
| 540 | * Music/DuranDuran has the video for "Girl Panic", that portrays the band as sexy girls, all of them [[CreatorCameo famous top-models]] getting in the skin of every band member. |
| 541 | * As a kind of {{homage}} to Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love" video, Music/ShaniaTwain's "Man! I Feel like a Woman" video is the gender-flip version of the former. |
| 542 | * Music/EltonJohn once said Robert Palmer's video for "Addicted to Love" was a gender-flip of Elton's song "Bennie and the Jets", as Bennie was a girl singer and the Jets were her all-male, homogenous-looking backing band. |
| 543 | [[/folder]] |
| 544 | |
| 545 | [[folder:Other]] |
| 546 | * The ''[[VideoGame/MegaMan Rockman Ability]]'' pachislot game reimagines Dr. Light as a beautiful young woman instead of an old man. |
| 547 | [[/folder]] |
| 548 | |
| 549 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 550 | * The god Palandine is normally male and the husband of Mishakal in the ''TabletopGame/{{Dragonlance}}'' setting, but in ''Podcast/TheFallenGods'' Palandine is female and Mishakal's wife. |
| 551 | * In the original continuity of the ''Podcast/RedPandaAdventures'', a one-off mention is made of the Red Panda having had a teenage sidekick. In the main continuity episode "The World Next Door", we learn that said sidekick, the Flying Squirrel, was a boy named Kent Baxter. This is quite a shock to the main universe's Flying Squirrel, adult woman Kit Baxter, especially, as she later reveals, because Kent was the name her parents would have given her had she been born a boy. A Sequel Episode, "A Dish Best Served Cold", also makes reference to the Necromator, who the Red Panda assumes was a male version of one of his female supervillains, Professor Zombie. |
| 552 | [[/folder]] |
| 553 | |
| 554 | [[folder:Pro Wrestling]] |
| 555 | * Unlike other women's promotions at the time, which usually didn't feature male talent, Mildred Burke's WWWA reversed the standard gender dynamics of fourfive male title belts and 12 female titles, having five women's divisions and two male divisions, albeit, midget male divisions. |
| 556 | [[/folder]] |
| 557 | |
| 558 | [[folder:Puppet Shows]] |
| 559 | * In ''Film/TheMuppetsWizardOfOz'', Rizzo the Rat takes the role of the Queen of the Field Mice, which has been [[CompositeCharacter conflated]] with the Mayor of Munchkinland. |
| 560 | * ConversationalTroping in ''Series/TheMuppets2015'' episode "Got Silk?", when Uncle Deadly says his theatre group is performing a genderflipped ''Film/{{Clueless}}'' (although in the performance we see, Deadly is playing Cher in drag because the leading lady cancelled). Apparently it works better than their previous play; a genderflipped ''Film/KnockedUp''. |
| 561 | [[/folder]] |
| 562 | |
| 563 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 564 | * ''TabletopGame/HeroRealms'' does this a bit literally. Character Packs are custom starting decks based on traditional Fantasy RPG classes. Each pack comes with Character Cards and Health Trackers, with each having one side featuring a male version of the Character, and on the other side with a female version. Other than aesthetics, the gameplay is not effected. |
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| 567 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 568 | * In the Broadway version of ''Theatre/TheLionKing'', Julie Taymor changed Rafiki's gender from male to female to combat TheSmurfettePrinciple. Since it didn't change Rafiki's role at all, it works quite well. |
| 569 | * There was a stage play of "Literature/SleepingBeauty" where the beauty was played by a guy and it was the girl who administered the [[TrueLovesKiss Wake-Up Kiss]]. |
| 570 | * Neil Simon wrote a version of ''Theatre/TheOddCouple'' with every role gender swapped, simply called ''The Female Odd Couple''. The biggest difference is that the British Pigeon sisters are changed to a pair of Spanish brothers, whose names and accents become the source of a great deal of wordplay. |
| 571 | * ''Oh My Godmother'' is the classic Cinderella story retold in modern-day San Francisco in which "Cinderella" is now a love-struck, gay, teenage boy. |
| 572 | * There's also an official female-cast version of ''Theatre/TwelveAngryMen'' (making it ''Twelve Angry Women''). Since women now serve on American juries, modern productions are often staged as ''Twelve Angry Jurors'' where the director can cast whichever roles he or she feels like as women. |
| 573 | * ''Errand Into The Maze'' by Martha Graham is a Gender Flip of the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur]], expressing in dance. The creature may or may not [[MindScrew be entirely in her mind, representing Fear]]. |
| 574 | * Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/KingLear'' has had incarnations that explore this technique: |
| 575 | ** In ''Lear'' (Maleczech, 1990), Lear was a queen and the conflict on division of the realm was among three sons, rather than three daughters. All of the dialog was left as found (save for pronouns). |
| 576 | ** ''Queen Lere'' was a feminist production that had women in all the roles, updated language, and things turned out much less tragically. [[WriterOnBoard Little bit of "agenda"]], in that one. |
| 577 | ** Creator/AkiraKurosawa's ''Film/{{Ran}}'' has his Lear analogue divide his realm between three sons. Except one of them is basically married to Lady Macbeth and it ends really really badly for everyone. |
| 578 | ** Thirteenth Floor Theatre's 2017 production changed Kent to a woman - who then [[SweetPollyOliver disguises herself as a man]]. The Fool also became a woman - strongly implied to be [[TheLostLenore the ghost of Lear's dead wife]]. Goneril's servant Oswald became female too with the resulting fight between Oswald and Kent becoming a DesignatedGirlFight. |
| 579 | * There was a production of ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'' in which Caesar [[CrosscastRole was played by a woman, but still referred to by the male pronoun]]. Calpurnia, however, became Calpurnius, and ''he'' got ''his'' pronouns changed. (The production had other changes as well: it thought it was set in a dance club TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture.) |
| 580 | * Matthew Bourne's "Theatre/SwanLake" took the ballet and turned all the swans into male characters. |
| 581 | * Gender flipping is not terribly uncommon in modern productions of Shakespeare. Since all of the women's roles in Shakespeare are actually roles for boys in drag, having women onstage at all is nontraditional casting; it doesn't take much of a leap to consider putting women in other roles as well. Also, especially in the case of student or amateur productions, there may be a surplus of female performers and a shortage of good male ones if you don't do this. |
| 582 | ** The practice is [[OlderThanTheyThink older than you'd think]]. Sarah Bernhardt, the most celebrated actress of her day, played Theatre/{{Hamlet}} on the stage in 1899. Curiously, part of a performance was filmed as ''Le Duel de Hamlet'', making the "first movie Hamlet" a woman! |
| 583 | ** Sara Bernhardt is by no means the only female Hamlet in movies -- Hamlet (1921) had Asta Nielsen as a female Hamlet who had been reared as a boy, and was much more interested in Horatio than Ophelia. |
| 584 | ** Amateur Shakespeare productions often do this simply to allow more casting balance, with no change to the plot whatsoever. Puck in ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'', for instance, has no real need to be male or female, so the role can easily be cast for the best performer of either sex. Likewise, many minor characters are presumed to be male, but could just as easily be female. |
| 585 | *** This is nearly always done to Titania's fairy servants. They were originally played by boys, ''as'' boys. Bottom even calls them things like "Monsieur Mustardseed" and "Master Cobweb". The more modern female association with fairies, coupled with the fact that a ''lot'' more girls will usually audition for any given production of ''Midsummer'', leads to the gender flip. |
| 586 | *** Numerous 21st century productions of ''Midsummer'' have introduced same-sex relationships between the lovers by turning Lysander or Helena (or both) into Lysandra and/or Helenus. A female Lysander can add an interesting dimension to the "forbidden love" aspect of her relationship with Hermia and lend a homophobic explanation to Egeus' opposition to this relationship, while a male Helena can turn Demetrius' character arc into a ComingOutStory and lend credence to the theory that he was in denial of his true feelings at the beginning of the story (because, in this case, he was closeted). |
| 587 | ** ''Theatre/TheTempest'' also sees a few roles often get flipped. [[GenderBlenderName Ariel]] becoming female is an obvious one, but Stephano or Trinculo also may become a female [[UnfortunateImplications to make the subtext between the two more palatable]] and Prospero can sometimes become a woman named Prospera as well; this last one has the greatest impact as Prospero and his daughter Miranda are two of the main characters and the relationship between them changes when it's a mother and daughter rather than a father and daughter. Other roles that have gotten get this treatment include Antonio (thus becoming Antonia), Adrian, Sebastian, and Francisco. |
| 588 | * In some productions of ''Theatre/{{Oliver}}'', the Artful Dodger is played by a girl, and actually referenced as such in the play (with the additional few lines of "Dodger's a girl?" "So what if I am? I could lick you any day!"). It doesn't have much bearing on the plot whether Dodger is played by a boy or girl, though. |
| 589 | * At one Literature/{{Discworld}} Convention, a group did a dramatisation of the scene in ''Literature/InterestingTimes'' where the Silver Horde are hanging around waiting for the battle, with a female Truckle the Uncivil. During the discussion of the afterlife, she delivered the line about a paradise full of young women as if she'd ''just'' spotted the flaw, and her response to Cohen's "And that's your reward, is it?" was "Dunno. Maybe it's me punishment". (In the original it's "Maybe it's ''their'' punishment".) |
| 590 | * Maureen's partner Joanne Jefferson in ''Theatre/{{Rent}}'' is a Gender Flipped version of Musetta's lover Alcindoro in ''Theatre/LaBoheme''. |
| 591 | * A Contemporary Theatre's 2012 production of ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' gender-flipped the Ghost of Christmas Present, for only the third time in the show's history (in the mid-1980s the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, as a nod to the areas Scandinavian heritage, Christmas Present was a St. Lucia expy rather than Father Christmas/Santa Claus; in 1990, an actress played all three ghosts). |
| 592 | * Creator/CirqueDuSoleil's ''Amaluna'' is a loose adaptation of Shakespeare's ''Theatre/TheTempest'' with a 70% female cast; for example, the main character, Prospero, becomes Prospera, the queen of the titular island. |
| 593 | * Samuel Beckett was adamant that this not be done to ''Theatre/WaitingForGodot''. When he took legal action against an all-female Dutch theater company and lost, he declared a ban on ''all productions of his plays'' in The Netherlands. When asked by the press on why he felt so strongly about this matter, Beckett replies "Because women don't have prostates," referring to one of the characters in the play's prostate disease. Female casts have still gone ahead, but not without having to wrangle with his estate. |
| 594 | * Productions of ''Literature/TheHobbit,'' especially for children, often add an elf ''queen'' rather than the king from the book--which makes sense, since the book literally has no female characters whatsoever. Tolkien canon does not specify anything about Thranduil's wife other than she must exist, because Thranduil has a son, Legolas; however, Thranduil is a bit character in ''Literature/TheHobbit'' and the story will not lose anything if he's replaced by a queen. Other productions have had Gollum, a relatively genderless role even in the book, played by women. |
| 595 | * In ''Theatre/ShrekTheMusical'', the Three Blind Mice are females, while in the films they're males. |
| 596 | * In the original novel ''Literature/LesMiserables'', the overseer who fires Fantine is a woman, Mme. Victurnien, who kicks her out simply for being an unwed mother. In [[Theatre/LesMiserables the stage show]], the unnamed Foreman is male, and is given the additional motive of Fantine turning down his romantic advances. |
| 597 | * Music/GioachinoRossini's Cinderella-based opera, ''Theatre/LaCenerentola'' replaces the stepmother with a stepfather, Don Magnifico, and the fairy godmother with a male mortal philosopher, Alidoro, making this considerably OlderThanRadio. |
| 598 | * The musical adaptation of ''Film/TheToxicAvenger'' makes Mayor Belgoody a woman. |
| 599 | * A short-lived 2011 revised production of ''Theatre/OnAClearDayYouCanSeeForever'' turned Daisy Gamble into ''David'' Gamble. |
| 600 | * In the stage musical of ''Film/{{Nativity}}'', the Critic, played by Alan Carr in the film, is Jo Brand. |
| 601 | * TheMusical of ''Film/MrsDoubtfire'' gender-flips Jonathan Lundy into Janet Lundy. |
| 602 | * ''Theatre/{{Cats}}'': Rumpelteazer is implied to be male in the original ''Literature/OldPossumsBookOfPracticalCats'' poems but is female in the ''Cats'' play. |
| 603 | * The ''Manga/CutieHoney'' stage play ''Cute Honey: Emotional'' makes Professor Kisaragi into a woman. |
| 604 | * A 2020 Scottish adaptation of ''Theatre/MrPuntilaAndHisManMatti'', in addition to relocating it to Argyll, becomes ''Mrs Puntila and her Man Matti'', with the title chatacter being played by Elaine C. Smith. |
| 605 | * In the National Theatre's 2014 production of ''Theatre/{{Treasure Island|2014}}'', protagonist Jim Hawkins is a girl (her full name is mentioned at one point to be Jemima). Dr Livesey is also female, as are several of the sailors and pirates. |
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| 607 | |
| 608 | [[folder:Toys]] |
| 609 | * A few ''Franchise/CareBears'' have had their genders flipped over the decades in both the toyline and the different animated shows, namely Funshine Bear (female to male) and Secret Bear (male to female) |
| 610 | * Plum Pudding in the original ''WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake'' line was originally a boy, "he" was later reintroduced to the line as a "she" |
| 611 | * One infamous figurine released early in G1 of ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' has Moondancer and Glory in [[OfficialCouple wedding attire]]. They're both female in canon but for the figurine Glory was male. [[FanonDiscontinuity Fans ignore the genderflip]]. |
| 612 | * Japanese figure maker Kotobukiya have turn famous horror movie characters like [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]], [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]], [[Film/ChildsPlay Chucky]] and Film/EdwardScissorhands into cute and sexy women. |
| 613 | * ''Toys/MonsterHigh'' is a Creator/{{Mattel}} toyline of dolls based in the classic monsters, generally with the gender flipped as is directed toward girls (so, logically, most characters will be female); including Draculaura (Dracula), Frankie Stein (Frankenstein), Clawdette (the Wolf Man), Cleo (the Mummy) and of course the opposite case with Deuce Gorgon (Medusa). |
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| 615 | |
| 616 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 617 | * Technically all games where you can pick the gender of your PlayerCharacter feature genderflipped versions of the protagonist. No matter if you play as male or female, your character is given the same backstory, same quests, and same character arc. A good example is Creator/BioWare's ''Franchise/MassEffect'' trilogy, where Shepard is given the same last name, familial backstory, and pre-service record regardless of gender, so the male and female versions of Shepard are essentially GenderFlipped alternate versions of each other. Some games, however, like ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', avert this by making the male and female versions of the PlayerCharacter distinct. In the case of ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', the male and female versions of the Sole Survivor are husband and wife. [[spoiler:Only the chosen PC survives the tutorial, and part of their motivation is tracking down their spouse's killer.]] |
| 618 | * ''VideoGame/SuperPrincessPeach'' gave Peach a starring role where she saves the Franchise/SuperMarioBros. from Bowser for a change, instead of the brothers setting out to rescue her as in so many previous Mario games. Also, the subplot of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' appears to be a gender-flipped version of ''Literature/TheLittlePrince''. |
| 619 | * Dr. Julie Langford from ''VideoGame/BioShock1'' was originally a man named Holden Langford, but Ken Levine made her female to add more female characters to the game. The art subtitles still mistakenly read "Holden Langford" for every sign in her lab. |
| 620 | * ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons'': ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonBackToNature For Girls'' ([=PlayStation=]), ''More Friends of Mineral Town'' (Game Boy Advance), ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoonAWonderfulLife Harvest Moon Another Wonderful Life]]'' ([=GameCube=]), and ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonDS Cute''. All four had official localizations, though the first one was not translated until the PSP compilation ''Boy and Girl''. Future games allow you to choose your gender at the start. |
| 621 | * The three ''VisualNovel/TokimekiMemorialGirlsSide'' games. The Platform/NintendoDS ports of the first two ''Girl's Side'' games also have complete fan translations. |
| 622 | * ''VideoGame/WarriorsOrochi Z'' features a [=genderflipped=] [[DistressedDude Tang Sanzang]] AKA [[Literature/JourneyToTheWest Genjou]] [[Manga/{{Saiyuki}} Sanzou]] as their addition. |
| 623 | * In ''VideoGame/Onimusha2SamuraisDestiny'', WordOfGod states that the Yagyu Jubei who is the main character is the grandfather of ''the'' UsefulNotes/YagyuJubei. ...then ''VideoGame/OnimushaDawnOfDreams'' comes out and there's a Jubei (it's a title in the family) and she's his granddaughter... Any sign of a [[Anime/JubeiChan lovely eyepatch?]] |
| 624 | * Due to the personalized nature of Personas in the ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'' series, some of the personal Personas of the playable characters have this happen to them. |
| 625 | ** In [[VideoGame/Persona1 the first game]], [[ClassClown Hidehiko Uesugi's]] Initial Persona, Nemhain, is an [[Myth/CelticMythology Irish war goddess]], but in the [[AudioAdaptation CD Drama]], Nemhain is given a male voice. |
| 626 | ** In the ''Innocent Sin'' half of ''VideoGame/Persona2'', [[TokenMinority Lisa Silverman's]] Initial Persona is [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Eros]]. In Greek myth, two male deities share that name, one being a love god and the other the primordial deity of procreation, but in this game, she's female. |
| 627 | ** The ''VideoGame/Persona3'' VideogameRemake for the [[Platform/PlayStationPortable PSP]], you can play as a female protagonist. While she herself averts this trope - not only does she have a [[GenkiGirl drastically]] [[TheHeart different]] personality from her [[TheEeyore male]] [[SugarAndIcePersonality counterparr]], she also has her own set of [[RelationshipValues Social Links]] - her Initial Persona is a feminized version of [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Orpheus]], which is the same Persona as the male's. [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior Ken Amada's]] Initial Persona, meanwhile, is the female Nemesis, but due to its [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/megamitensei/images/e/e3/Nemesis.png/revision/latest?cb=20161019072510 oddly toyetic appearance]], it comes off as more gender neutral. |
| 628 | * ''VideoGame/PersonaQ2NewCinemaLabyrinth'' likes to play around this ''a lot''. Most of the movie OCs that the party encounters are Gender flipped from what they actually are, [[spoiler:as they are originally all people in Hikari's cognition given forms by Persona users who got dragged into the movies.]] |
| 629 | ** Kamoshidaman, the superhero of his titular movie, [[spoiler:has nothing to do with the ObviouslyEvil pervert rapist teacher that he resembles. Instead, he's actually a teacher in Hikari's primary school who is seen as "absolute authority," who is a woman.]] |
| 630 | ** Yosukesaurus, the outcast dinosaur of ''Junessic Land'', has nothing to do with Yosuke, nor is he as calm and determined as the real one. [[spoiler: He's actually Hikari in secondary school who was being isolated by her friends for having different opinions about dealing with bullied students.]] |
| 631 | ** The Overseer, resembling the [[spoiler:seemingly]] friendly and punny chairman of S.E.E.S, has no relation to the real thing. [[spoiler:It's actually a hybrid cognition of Hikari's [[EducationMama Education Relatives]] who destroyed her completely by suggesting that she should get a good resume then a "normal" office worker job instead of letting her become a movie director.]] |
| 632 | ** The BigBad [[spoiler:Nagi, actually the Mesopotamian God of justice and storms "Enlil" is a woman, even in her OneWingedAngel form where she was clearly masculine. The original god is actually a man.]] |
| 633 | * ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'': |
| 634 | ** Lightning was billed as a DistaffCounterpart to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''[='=]s Cloud Strife. This got hilarious when fans of the series, after decades of extremely pretty and androgynous heroes, were all too ready to complain that Lightning was "just another girl-faced guy". Until they found out that she actually ''was'' a girl. |
| 635 | ** Fang from the same game was initially conceived as a sexy male character, but eventually became a sexy female character (letting them desexualise Lightning, which they wanted to do). As a result, she ended up [[MasculineGirlFeminineBoy subverting the usual gender roles of]] ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'', and became quite popular as a result. |
| 636 | ** Especially notable is that Fang's gender flip had little, if any, effect on her [[LesYay relationship with Vanille]]. |
| 637 | * ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' features a gender-flipped Saika Magoichi. However, this is subverted in that it could be any woman who has taken the title 'Saika Magoichi' to lead the Saika mercs. The real life Suzuki Shigehide (the best known Saika Magoichi) is said to have had a wife/sister/daughter, and [[FanNickname Maggie]] could very well be any one of them. |
| 638 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'', Kunimitsu was initially a palette swap of Yoshimitsu, but in the second game, was [=gender flipped=] and given a mostly-new moveset. |
| 639 | * ''VideoGame/AkaSeka'' features a male Creator/MurasakiShikibu. |
| 640 | * In ''VideoGame/BionicCommando Rearmed'', Hal was replaced by Haley. |
| 641 | * Most titles in the ''VisualNovel/DaCapo'' franchise feature a male lead and some adult content. ''Da Capo Girl's Symphony'' features a female lead and no adult content. |
| 642 | * Samus from ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' was (like Aliens above) gender-neutral until the very end where the designers decided to add a twist to the end. The twist? Create a new trope! SamusIsAGirl indeed. |
| 643 | * Creator/ChoiceOfGames' ''Choice of Broadsides'' game allows you to play an entire ''genre'' under Gender Flipped conditions: rather than force the protagonist to be male, the player has the option of changing the setting to being [[WoodenShipsAndIronMen Wooden Ships and Iron]] '''Women'''. ''Choice of Romance'' is somewhat similar, but not quite as pronounced -- the game culture is a bisexual one. The player's choice of character sex and sexual orientation determines the sex of his/her suitors, but the suitors' characters remain the same. |
| 644 | * In the original ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland2LeChucksRevenge'', when Guybrush calls the Creator/LucasArts Help Desk (then [=LucasFilm=] Games Help Desk) on Dinky Island, the phone operator on the other end of the phone appears near him... and it appears to be [[GenderBlenderName a woman named Chester]]! In the redrawn Special Edition, however, Chester the phone operator is now a man. Interestingly, both characters can be found in the Special Edition version, with female Chester appearing in Classic mode and male Chester appearing in the high-definition mode, and both characters even have unique voice actors. |
| 645 | * ''The Flower Shop: Summer in Fairbrook'' was a 2010 indie game about [[SimulationGame gardening]] and [[DatingSim relationships]]. It was followed up with a reverse harem game called ''Winter in Fairbrook'' the next year. |
| 646 | * One of the playable characters of ''[[VideoGame/OtogiMythOfDemons Otogi 2: Immortal Warriors]]'' is the cold and stoic [[KungFuWizard imperial sorceress]] Seimei, a major protagonist and spiritual guide who's based on the real-life man and legendary Japanese folk-figure Abe no Seimei. |
| 647 | * The main games in Red Entertainment's ''VideoGame/SakuraWars'' franchise all feature male main characters. |
| 648 | ** Between 2010 and 2011, the same company created a similar two-part [=PS2=] and PSP series called ''Scared Rider Zechs'', with a female lead and a harem of men. |
| 649 | ** Also, a manga spinoff called ''Sakura Wars Kanadegumi'' began publication in 2011. It's a story about one girl and several guys that take place in the Sakura Wars universe. |
| 650 | * The ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' games have LouisCypher as a recurring character. ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney'' has Louisa Ferre instead. |
| 651 | * ''Strange Journey'' gets even stranger: everyone's favorite [[GagPenis penis demon]], Mara, is '''female''' for a change. Yes, she's ''still'' a penis. |
| 652 | * In the original version of Creator/LucasArts' 1990 fantasy adventure game ''VideoGame/{{Loom}}'', the main villain is Chaos, the King of the Dead. As an inhuman undead specter, Chaos' gender is determined only by the other characters' dialogue--and in the original release, they refer to ''him'' and ''he''. In the rewritten talkie PC CD version, however, the dialogue is changed so Chaos becomes ''she''. (This may have occurred in part because Chaos' design was based on the look of [[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty Maleficent]].) |
| 653 | * Milk, the hero of the NES game ''Nuts & Milk'', was female in the earlier Japanese PC versions. |
| 654 | * The Rip Van Fish are female in ''VideoGame/{{Something}}'' because they are [[PinkMeansFeminine pink]] and their [[CatchingSomeZs Zs]] are replaced with [[SayItWithHearts hearts]]. They only show up in Only Water Level. |
| 655 | * ''VideoGame/SpiderManShatteredDimensions'' has a female version of ComicBook/DoctorOctopus as the BigBad of the ComicBook/SpiderMan2099 portion of the game. Also, counts as a [[TwoferTokenMinority Twofer]] since she is of Indian descent. |
| 656 | * One dad [[http://kotaku.com/5958918/father-hacks-zelda-for-his-daughter-makes-link-a-girl hacked]] a copy of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' to turn Link into a girl by changing all the gendered pronouns. |
| 657 | * ''Franchise/TombRaider'' star Lara Croft was originally envisioned as a man, but the character was changed into a woman because the developers felt that the character would be too similar to Franchise/IndianaJones. |
| 658 | * The NES (and most well-known) version of ''VideoGame/{{Uninvited}}'' changed the protagonist's younger brother into an older sister who otherwise fills the same role. |
| 659 | * ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork's'' [[AlternateUniverse reimagining]] of [[VideoGame/MegaMan4 Ring Man]] is female. |
| 660 | * ''VideoGame/ShovelKnight'' added Body Swap Mode as part of the Treasure Trove update, allowing players to switch the genders of whichever major characters they choose, updating the sprites and dialog to match. The only thing it doesn't affect is the visuals of the intro cutscene, since the developers would have needed to create versions of the pixel art for every possible permutation of the main cast's genders. |
| 661 | * ''VideoGame/DefenseOfTheAncients'' had Tresdin the Legion Commander: a mustachioed and [[FantasticRacism racist]] [[ExactlyWhatitSaysOntheTin commander of a legion.]] In ''VideoGame/Dota2'' Tresdin has been retooled into a woman, is still a commander of a legion, and the racism is toned down but she is still aggressively adamant in her distrust of non-humans, ''especially'' demons after [[DoomedHometown Stonehall.]] |
| 662 | * In the NES version and one of the US arcade versions of the Capcom shoot-'em-up ''VideoGame/LegendaryWings'', the two main characters of Michelle Heart and Kevin Walker are replaced by nameless angels, both of them male. |
| 663 | * The Famicom game ''Final Mission'' featured two male commandos as the main characters. When the game was localized for the NES under the title of ''[[VideoGame/SpecialCyberneticAttackTeam S.C.A.T.: Special Cybernetic Attack Team]]'', one of them became female. |
| 664 | * ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'' has a female version of Copperhead as one of the boss characters. Batman even lampshades this by stating that all of the data he had thus far collected in relation to Copperhead indicated a man. |
| 665 | * [[VideoGame/SpiderManTrilogy The tie-in game to]] ''Film/SpiderMan3'' does this to Dr. Farley Stillwell, making him female. |
| 666 | * The main character of the book ''Literature/{{Bedlam}}'' is Ross Baker (whose gamertag is Bedlam), a man. The main character of its video game adaptation, ''VideoGame/{{Bedlam}}'', is Heather Quinn (whose gamertag was Athena), a woman (though the game's still named after the original protagonist). WordOfGod says he wanted a woman in the game because so few FPS protagonists are women, and says in retrospect that he should have made the main character of the book a woman, too. |
| 667 | * ''VideoGame/{{Loved}}'' does this to ''the player''. The voice asks you whether you're a man or a woman; if you respond "man," the voice refers to you as "girl" for the rest of the game, and if you answer "woman," it refers to you as "boy." |
| 668 | * There's a part in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky'' where the characters put on a SchoolPlay at the Academy. The students stage the classic play "The Madrigal of White Magnolias" but with gender-swapped casting: thus Estelle and Kloe play the dueling knights while Joshua is cajoled into playing the role of the princess. |
| 669 | * The ''VideoGame/{{Bomberman}}'' series has the arcade spinoff ''Bomber Girl'', focusing on an all-female ([[AdaptationSpeciesChange and human]]) cast of playable characters. The main two Bomber characters are even flips of White Bomberman (Shiro) and Black Bomberman (Kuro). |
| 670 | * The ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' video game ''VideoGame/ScoobyDooWhosWatchingWho'' features two suspects who are female versions of male villains from ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'': |
| 671 | ** One of the three suspects for the true identity of the Space Kook is Henrietta Bascombe, who is based on Henry Bascombe, the true identity of the Space Kook in the original series episode "Spooky Space Kook". |
| 672 | ** In the Oceanland level, one of the suspects for the true identity of the Ghost of Redbeard is Professor Alicia Wayne. She is loosely based on Professor Wayne from the original series episode "Scooby's Night with a Frozen Fright". |
| 673 | * ''VideoGame/HeroesOfTheStorm'': Two heroes have this. The Barbarian from ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' is almost always marketed as the male one, but the [=HotS=] team opted to create the female character Sonya for the barbarian representative. Likewise, the Siege Tank unit was male in both ''VideoGame/StarCraft'' games. Heroes instead use a female CanonForeigner named Sgt. Hammer. |
| 674 | * The ''VideoGame/KunioKun'' spinoff ''VideoGame/RiverCityGirls'' has Misako and Kyoko rushing off to rescue Kunio and Riki. |
| 675 | * In ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII: [[VideoGameRemake Reforged]]'', the Demon Hunter and the Death Knight in skirmishes can be optionally played as female variants, with voice lines to boot. Some of the creeps were changed from male to female, particularly the [[OurCentaursAreDifferent centaurs]] and [[FaunsAndSatyrs satyrs]]. Count as GuysSmashGirlsShoot since the swapped gender of those units were archers and spellcasters. |
| 676 | * In most dubs of ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'', the computer voice that greets the Doom Slayer in Urdak is female. In the Polish dub, the voice is male. |
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| 678 | |
| 679 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 680 | * The Chinese epic ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'' gets two HGame then later ''three'' anime series that feature most of its historically male characters as attractive females: some [[Manga/IkkiTousen voluptuous]], some [[VisualNovel/KoihimeMusou moe]]. As for the historically ''female'' characters, such as Diao Chan, the result in ''Koihime Musou'' was... [[Creator/NorioWakamoto terrifying]]. |
| 681 | * The ''Chusingura46+1'' HGame series by Inre turns almost all [[Film/The47Ronin 46 ronin]] (you play as the [[TimeTravel time-traveling]] protagonist 47th one) and all members of UsefulNotes/TheShinsengumi into [[{{Moe}} cute]] [[{{Stripperiffic}} girls in microskirts]] who are all ready for you to screw, and in the case of the ronin, to knock up. |
| 682 | * The ''[[VideoGame/EiyuuSenkiTheWorldConquest Eiyuu*Senki]]'' HGame series by Tenco features a hodgepodge of cute, screwable gender flip (female) historical/legendary/mythological figures from all over the world, ranging from feudal Japan (Date Masamune, Yamato Takeru, Miyamoto Musashi, etc.), to China (Qin Shi Huang, Sun Tzu, Lu Bu, Jiang Ziya, etc.), to India (Ashoka), to Mongolia (Kubilai Khan), to the Americas (Christopher Columbus, Geronimo, Montezuma II, Wayna Qhapaq, Blackbeard, Kamehameha), to the Middle East (Hammurabi, Tutankhamun, Gilgamesh, Cambyses II, etc.), to Europe (Marco Polo, King Arthur and other Arthurian figures, Palamedes, Aristotle, Achilles, Heracles, Nostradamus, Alexander the Great, Caesar, Napoleon, Charlemagne, Beethoven, Faust, Leonardo da Vinci, Ferdinand Magellan, Ivan the Terrible, Grigori Rasputin, Copernicus, Cú Chulainn, Sigurd, Loki, etc.). Also features one cameo of Uesugi Kenshin from ''Sengoku Rance''. A few characters are based on actual female figures, such as Himiko, Joan of Arc and Cleopatra. |
| 683 | * The HGame ''Sengoku Rance'' by Creator/AliceSoft re-imagines some historical figures of the Sengoku (Warring States) period such as Uesugi Kenshin and Yamamoto Isoroku, as cute, screwable girls. |
| 684 | * ''Franchise/FateSeries'': |
| 685 | ** The series as it released is gender flipped compared to [[WhatCouldHaveBeen the scenario originally planned]]: Saber herself was originally going to be a male character and servant of a {{Meganekko}} who was the basis of [[DecompositeCharacter Shirou and Rin]]. The original scenario was eventually turned into a 12-minute long [=OVA=] called ''Anime/FatePrototype'' and later expanded to the ''Fragments of Pale Silver'' novels. |
| 686 | ** In the parody manga ''Sensha Otoko: A True Tank Story'', Waver Velvet is a girl and Iskandar's love interest. Enkidu, who in canon is AmbiguousGender but is usually referred to with male pronouns, is a girl and Gilgamesh's love interest. |
| 687 | * [[Literature/SherlockHolmes Colonel Sebastian Moran]] and Henry Irving have both been [=genderflipped=] in ''VisualNovel/ShikkokuNoSharnoth'', though for the former it's quite possibly that it is not her real name. |
| 688 | * The doujin soft game ''[[http://www.download.com/3000-20-10536283.html Go! Magical Boy]]'' is a RomanceGame that switches the genders of the MagicalGirl genre. [[spoiler:Well, mostly -- the player character looks like a girl to others when transformed and has to give up his powers to a legitimate girl in the end. So not the best game ever.]] |
| 689 | * The ''Pia Carrot'' HGame series had male main characters and a group of female love interests in its four NumberedSequels and spinoffs. Then a reverse harem story called ''Prince Pia Carrot'' was released on Platform/PlayStationPortable in October 2014 with just a [[UsefulNotes/MediaClassifications CERO D]] rating. |
| 690 | * ''VisualNovel/ShallWeDateMyFairyTales'' does this to a majority of the love interests. They're all male counterparts to famous fairytale characters such as ''Literature/SnowWhite'', ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'', ''Literature/TheLittleMermaid'' and so on and so forth. |
| 691 | * ''VisualNovel/ShallWeDateOz'' features two love interests that are male versions of two original characters from ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz''. |
| 692 | * The ''[=TaishoXAlice=]'' series of visual novels does a different take on fairy tales, folktales, and their female protagonists... by sending the heroine of the series into a fairy tale world where all of them are men. Even {{Alice|Allusion}} and Princess Kaguya get included into this. And since this is also a DatingSim, it stands to reason that miss Heroine is our prince character. |
| 693 | * In the {{game mod}} based on ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'', there is ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiSwitcheroo'' in which the main girls in the original game are reimagined as boys. This even extends to the default player character who is represented as a female in this version. |
| 694 | [[/folder]] |
| 695 | |
| 696 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 697 | * Every team in ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' is based on a particular theme. The theme of JNPR is [[ItMakesSenseInContext "genderflipped heroes of legend of varying eras and nationalities, whose original basis crossdressed."]] Jaune Arc is a [[JeanneDArchetype male Joan of Arc]], Nora Valkyrie is a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor female Thor]], Pyrrha Nikos is a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achilles female Achilles]], and Lie Ren is a [[WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}} male Mulan]]. |
| 698 | [[/folder]] |
| 699 | |
| 700 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 701 | * ''Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace'': |
| 702 | ** Tristram, Argavaine and Gareth are female in the space and contemporary arcs. Isolde is female in all arcs, and this makes no difference to Tristram's story. (However, Gareth's paramour becomes male in the space arc.) |
| 703 | ** Sir Bromell, Elaine of Carbonek's knight protector, is an interesting example -- he's a male knight in the baseline arc just like in the legends, and female in the contemporary one (where she and Elaine only exist in Arthur's webcomic). But because AKOTAS-Elaine is based on Helen from ''{{Webcomic/Narbonic}}'', the baseline Bromell is actually a gender-flipped version of Mell. |
| 704 | * ''Magical Boys'' and 'Webcomic/MahouShounenFight'' gender-flips the MagicalGirlWarrior series. |
| 705 | * ''Webcomic/{{Spinnerette}}'' is a Gender Flip of ComicBook/SpiderMan. |
| 706 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', this is played with. [[spoiler:The Scratched Universe introduces 4 new main characters: Roxy is the counterpart to Rose and Dirk is the counterpart to Dave, but John and Jade are genderflipped to Jane and Jake, respectively. Justified, as the post-Scratch kids are actually meant to correspond to the pre-Scratch characters' guardians rather than the kids themselves. John's father was born the traditional way rather than by ectobiology, so Jane represents his grandmother]]. |
| 707 | * In ''Webcomic/ElsannaBramStokersDracula'', Elsa is the {{Expy}} to the titular Dracula from the [[Film/BramStokersDracula 1992 film]]. |
| 708 | * Played with in ''Webcomic/DokiDokiLiteratureGirls''. Natsuki is a pre-op transgirl in the comic whereas in [[VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub the original game]], she is a girl in both biology and gender indentification, making her a case of gender flipping only in terms of biology. |
| 709 | [[/folder]] |
| 710 | |
| 711 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 712 | * In ''[[Webcomic/AsteroidQuest Polokoa Quest]]'', Chief is female in Rokolo's Compilation AI (CAI). In [[Webcomic/UnnaturalSelection the story they originate from]], he is male. Polokoa Quest is an alternative universe spinoff that has a number of changes to various characters from the original. |
| 713 | [[/folder]] |
| 714 | |
| 715 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 716 | * The review of ''Partymania'' on ''WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment'' took place in a genderswapped 80s world. Linkara (or rather, his 90s Kid persona) became 80s Chick and Spoony became the giggly girly Spoonette. And Benzaie... let's not talk about Veronique. |
| 717 | * In WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'' review, male "FanDumb of the Opera" is stalking female Beth, but female Hyper is still wanting to force male Critic into being with her. |
| 718 | * ''WebVideo/TheVeronicaExclusive'', a web series adaptation of ''{{Film/Heathers}}'' makes [[SerialKiller Jason "J.D." Dean]] into [[PsychoLesbian Jane "J.D." Dean]]. |
| 719 | * ''Funny or Die'' presented a parody of ''Series/TheHandmaidsTale'' called ''The Handman's Tale'', where men are in the role of the oppressed Handmen who live under the thumb of a theocratic society controlled by women. |
| 720 | * ''WebVideo/MiddlemarchTheSeries'' reimagines Will Ladislaw as Billie Ladislaw, Mary Garth as Max Garth, and James Chettam as Jamie Chettam. |
| 721 | * In ''WebVideo/TheEmmaAgenda'', George Knightley is instead Jordan Knightley, and Jane Fairfax is Jon Fairfax. |
| 722 | * ''WebVideo/MerryMaidens'' gender-flips Robin Hood and the Merry Men. |
| 723 | [[/folder]] |
| 724 | |
| 725 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 726 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', when Nicole, her children and Larry are trying to chase Richard to prevent him from delivering the next pizza in time, so that Larry can fire him and prevent the fabric of the universe from being completely torn apart, the more they get close to him, the more they are affected by his universe-tearing power. In a brief instance, they become subjected to a gender flip, among other reality distortions such as a body swap or a realistic rendering of their cartoony selves. |
| 727 | * The ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' "Fionna and Cake" episodes (one per season since the fourth season) do this to pretty much every character in the show (except for the canonically agender BMO), including the theme song singer. |
| 728 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheAnimalsOfFarthingWood'' animated series Owl, Weasel, Kestrel and Adder, who were males in the books, were changed to females. Confusingly, Kestrel has male plumage. |
| 729 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': |
| 730 | ** The creators couldn't get the rights to use WesternAnimation/ScrewySquirrel, and thus, the equally violent Slappy Squirrel was born. |
| 731 | ** The Warners were also originally three brothers, but the third was sort of uninteresting, so she became a girl to add something new. |
| 732 | * ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': |
| 733 | ** Fans often joke that the roles of the EvilOverlord's son and daughter on the EvilOverlordList are gender flipped with Zuko and Azula. [[AllThereInTheManual The Nick website]] also suggests Ozai and Zuko are a rare Gender Flip of the FairestOfThemAll trope. |
| 734 | ** The series also has two [[WhatCouldHaveBeen developmental]] gender flips: Toph and Azula both started as ''male'' characters (the latter being called "Prince Azul", and initially having a much smaller part that didn't come up until the end). The former gets a reference in [[WhoWouldWantToWatchUs The Ember Island Players]], among many, many other in-jokes. The original male design for Toph went on to be reused for Avatar Roku's Earthbending teacher. |
| 735 | * Franchise/{{Barbie}} gets some meatier roles via Gender Flip in: |
| 736 | ** ''The Princess and the Pauper'', a girls' video based on {{Franchise/Barbie}} dolls. |
| 737 | ** ''WesternAnimation/BarbieAndTheThreeMusketeers'' (Barbie as an ActionGirl!) |
| 738 | ** ''Barbie in Literature/AChristmasCarol'' (Ebenezer Scrooge is now an Victorian-era opera diva named Eden Starling) |
| 739 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' |
| 740 | ** Gotham mayor Marion Grange changed to a male, despite the comic version of the character being a woman. This was mostly so that the creators could cast Creator/AdamWest in the part. |
| 741 | ** Vulture of the Terrible Trio was made into a woman [[AffirmativeActionGirl due to the comic book version of the group consisting of nothing but men]]. |
| 742 | * In the original pilot of ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' Tina was a boy named Daniel. This is particularly humourous considering the voices and personalities of both characters are identical. |
| 743 | * In-universe example: The ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'' episode "A Loo to a Kill" is set during the filming of a ''Danger Mouse'' movie, in which DM plays himself, and Penfold is played by Scarlett Johamster (and PromotedToLoveInterest). |
| 744 | * A particularly demented example occurs in ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' on the episode "A [[VerySpecialEpisode Very Special]] Drawn Together Afterschool Special" where the characters, in an attempt to help Xandir prepare for revealing his homosexuality to his parents, role play as Xandir's parents (among other random roles). Eventually even this fake family has to see a therapist (Woldoor), who suggests that said role playing family role play yet again. This ends with Captain Hero being a meek, feminine housewife, Toot being a homophobic blue-collar father, and Xandir becoming a prostitute for Japanese businessmen. |
| 745 | * In ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFourTheAnimatedSeries'', Lavinia Forbes, the Baxter Building landlady who doesn't much like having a superhero team in her building but can't evict them, is a flip of Walter Collins, the Baxter Building landlord from early ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' comics, who doesn't much like having a superhero team in his building but can't evict them. |
| 746 | * In the 90s cartoon version of ''[[WesternAnimation/FlashGordon1996 Flash Gordon]]'', Flash's ally Prince Thun of the Lion People became Princess Thundar. |
| 747 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' was originally going to have Broadway as a female, but ExecutiveMeddling didn't like the idea of [[DoubleStandard an overweight female protagonist]]. It's worth noting that the clan was also originally going to be led by a female named Dakota, but she was considered uninteresting, so they reimagined her as [[BigBad Demona]] and created Goliath instead. |
| 748 | * In ''WesternAnimation/GerryAndersonsNewCaptainScarlet'', Seymour Griffiths (CodeName: Lt. Green) is replaced by Serena Lewis (also codenamed Lt. Green). |
| 749 | * ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeResolute'' reimagined Dial Tone as a woman. On the subject as to why, Creator/WarrenEllis, who wrote it, [[http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=7227 said]] that Creator/{{Hasbro}} insisted a random tech he gave a lot of dialogue to be a named Joe and literally said that he picked Dial Tone "because {{it amused me}}." |
| 750 | * ''WesternAnimation/HappilyEverAfterFairyTalesForEveryChild'' occasionally did this to the characters, along with changing the stories to be more multiracial than the typically European originals. For example the Literature/ThePrinceAndThePauper became "The Princess and the Pauper". |
| 751 | * In the original ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'', MAD Cat was male. In [[WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget2015 the 2015 reboot]], MAD Cat is female. |
| 752 | * Some have accused ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'' of being a gender-flipped version of ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' (annoying ''male'' sibling with super-intelligent ''sister(s)'' instead of the opposite). The hair even matches: blond for the dumb kid and red for the geniuses. (A potentially plausible theory because Chris Savino, who directed seasons three and four of ''Dexter's Laboratory'', worked on ''Johnny Test'' as a contributing writer, producer, and director of some episodes.) An in-universe example from one episode was when Johnny got into ShowWithinAShow involving "An annoying younger sibling who pesters his twin ''brother'' mad scientists for experiments". None of the characters can place the similarities. The episode ends with Johnny and his Expy hanging out while both sets of twins have a double date. |
| 753 | * In the early planning stages of the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' animated series, a female version of ComicBook/{{Cyborg}} was supposed to have been part of the main cast. [[http://jl.toonzone.net/pilot/pilot.htm Test footage of her even exists.]] The character design later appeared in the comics as Cyborg's EvilCounterpart and niece of his LoveInterest. |
| 754 | * In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'', the second Queen from the Royal Flush Gang is a male {{Crossdresser}} rather than a woman. Not quite a straight example, though, since the Gang itself tends to have a revolving roster... For that matter, in both versions of the RFG seen in the series, we have Ace (the only carryover member) as a young preteen girl; in all comics before this and ''most'' adaptations (including distant-sequel ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond''), Ace is a male character (and is often depicted as a cyborg or android with SuperStrength). |
| 755 | * Little Miss Scatterbrain and Little Miss Stubborn have become Mr. Scatterbrain and Mr. Stubborn in ''WesternAnimation/TheMrMenShow''. |
| 756 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' did this to the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyG3 Gen 3]] pony Star Swirl, who was mentioned but not seen until his appearance in Season 7, and called Star Swirl the Bearded. |
| 757 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheNewBatmanAdventures'', Calendar Man's counterpart is a former model called Calendar Girl (name aside, though, she's a very different character). |
| 758 | * When they are introduced in the second season of ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'', the Pixies were all female. But in the SpinOff series ''WesternAnimation/PopPixie'' (that is an AlternateUniverse), some of them who had significant roles in the original series (Digit, Livy, Zing, and Jolly) have had gender alterations and are male now. |
| 759 | ** It is also confirmed by the creator that Helia was supposed to be a girl, hence why he has a female name. It's likely he was supposed to be the new 6th Winx fairy (as well as Flora's best friend), but his gender was changed so he could become a love interest. |
| 760 | * The animated adaptation of the ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' book ''Martin the Warrior'' changed the gender of the hedgehog character Pallum from male to female. This was because it was thought there were not enough female characters in the main cast. |
| 761 | * In ''Westernanimation/RobinHoodMischiefInSherwood'', the role of Will Scarlet is filled by a girl named Scarlett in order to avert TheSmurfettePrinciple. |
| 762 | * The CGI ''WesternAnimation/{{Rupert}}'' cartoon flipped Pong Ping and Ferdy Fox into females, renaming them "Ping Pong" and "Frieda" respectively. |
| 763 | * ''WesternAnimation/SherlockHolmesInTheTwentySecondCentury'' has Inspector Lestrade as a female (she's a descendant of the male Lestrade from the original Literature/SherlockHolmes stories, and also a major fan of the master detective in general). |
| 764 | * When ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' puts their cast members in another story to parody the original, occasionally Lisa will be given a role that was originally male. For instance, Lisa was given equivalent roles for Franchise/SherlockHolmes, Johnny "Connie" Appleseed, and Film/{{Amadeus}} (as Sally Eri). |
| 765 | * Azrael, the cat from ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'' was female in the comic books, but is male in the TV show, later comics, and [[Film/TheSmurfs live-action movie]]. |
| 766 | * Despite not appearing in ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower'' aside from being mentioned in the series bible and relegated to a toyline-exclusive character, Double Trouble (who is female) is gender flipped to non-binary for ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'' along with using "they/them" pronouns. |
| 767 | * ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'': |
| 768 | ** Changed the character of Red Alert from [[Anime/TransformersArmada The]] [[Anime/TransformersEnergon Unicron]] [[Anime/TransformersCybertron Trilogy]] from a male to a female for their own version of Red Alert. In fact, they originally wanted [[TheMedic Ratchet]] to be female and have Red Alert's name, but the final version of the show changed Ratchet back into a male, and made Red Alert a separate character. |
| 769 | *** Interestingly, Ratchet was intended to be female in the original [[ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel Marvel comics]]. But ExecutiveMeddling made him male to the Transformers toyline's "no gender" rule and being for boys. |
| 770 | ** Also, the comic story "The Stunticon Job" depicts the TFA version of Drag Strip as a femme. |
| 771 | * In The Mondo TV version of ''WesternAnimation/TheTrashPack'', as a way to give a gender balance to the main Trashies, Scum Gum, Scabby Cat, and Sour Snail were made female, as opposed to the male pronouns they were given in the toyline. When Scum Gum and Sour Snail returned in [[WebAnimation/TheTrashPack the webseries]], they were reverted back to male. |
| 772 | * The "Spider-Verse" arc in ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012'' introduces Petra Parker, a.k.a. Spider-Girl, a teen girl version of Peter Parker from an alternate universe. Petra's Earth also contains female versions of ComicBook/NickFury (Nicole Fury), Harry Osborn (Harriet Osborn), J. Jonah Jameson (J. Joanne Jameson) and Norman Osborn (Norma Osborn). |
| 773 | * In ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'', it's revealed that [[spoiler:the series' version of Pidge is really a girl named Katie Holt. She's pulling a SweetPollyOliver to join the Galactic Garrison and locate her missing brother, since she was banned from their facility for breaking in one too many times.]] |
| 774 | * The cartoon version of ''WesternAnimation/WatershipDown'' has the book character Blackberry made from a buck to a doe. Many fans were displeased about this, since half the plot of the original is about the fact that they ''need'' does to establish a successful warren. |
| 775 | * ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen2009'': |
| 776 | ** Arclight, a woman in the comics, was remade into a man. WordOfGod is that they didn't feel comfortable having Cyclops violently confront a woman while on a warpath as he did to the show's Arclight when [[spoiler: he asked about Sinister's location, believing he has Jean.]] |
| 777 | ** Master Mold is female. Of course, Master Mold has always been a robot that gave birth to other robots, but he was previously referred to as male anyway. |
| 778 | * Spyke from ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' seems like a [[RaceLift black]], [[SpearCounterpart male]] version of Marrow, but WordOfGod is that they was a complete coincidence. The show's creator claimed he had never heard of Marrow prior to working on the show, which is not too implausible given the character's relative obscurity. |
| 779 | * In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'': |
| 780 | ** Red Inferno and Red Torpedo have their genders flipped from the original comics. This is because the show [[RetroactiveLegacy establishes that the two were originally]] the [[MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] heroes Red Torpedo and Firebrand, and thus their genders needed to match their 40's counterparts (Greg even commented on this, including his confusion at the ''original'' change). |
| 781 | ** Asami "Sam" Koizumi is a female version of [[CaptainEthnic Samurai]] from ''{{WesternAnimation/Superfriends}}''. |
| 782 | [[/folder]] |
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