Basic Trope: An installment of a work or franchise in which characters of a specific gender are absent or have minor roles, while characters of the other gender are the main focus.
- Straight: The TV series Alice and Bob gets an episode that has Alice and her female friends as the main focus, while leaving male characters behind.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice and Bob gets an entire season focused solely on Alice and her friends.
- Alice and Bob gets a Spin-Off based around Alice and her friends.
- Bob and almost everybody who is (biologically or identifies as) male in the cast is dead or otherwise disposed of for one episode.
- Downplayed:
- The episode has multiple plot lines. One of the lines only has female characters involved, but the rest still feature males.
- Bob is still a major character in the episode. But other than that, the men don't have much importance in the story.
- Justified:
- Alice is getting The Talk so men wisely stay away.
- It's Alice's bachelor party and her girl friends wanted to take her someplace special.
- [Action-series example] General Gendercide Jones has deployed nerve gas on the perimeter of her base which will kill any living being that has a Y Chromosome or a significant level of testosterone, leading to Alice being The Only One who can enter to do sabotage.
- Inverted:
- A cast normally completely separated by gender gets an episode where everyone is together.
- Bob, the only major male character in the cast, gets an episode all on his lonesome.
- Gender Flipped:
- Alice and Bob, normally a series with a perfectly equal share of airtime between male and female members of the cast, gets an episode in which Bob and his guy friends have major roles, while Alice and the other gals don't get any focus.
- Charlie and Darcy, the two main nonbinary characters in Alice And Bob, get an episode to themselves.
- In one episode of The Daring Adventures of Alice Troper, Bob (the only notable male in the cast) gets A Day in the Spotlight.
- Subverted: The episode begins focusing on Alice and her friends without any of the male characters, but then the boys start barging in...
- Double Subverted: Only for Alice and the girls to kick them all out.
- Parodied:
- The episode still features male characters with notable roles, but they fall subject to a Gender Bender.
- Alice is the only female character in the entire show, so the entire episode is just her being alone and lampshading this fact.
- Zig Zagged: The episode constantly switches the focus between solely on female characters and both women and men.
- Averted: There's no episode in the series devoted to a specific gender.
- Enforced: To counter complaints about the show’s female characters not getting enough screen time, the showrunners of Alice and Bob create an episode that puts the female characters in the spotlight.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice starts the episode saying: "Whatever we're going to do today, we're going to do it all together!"
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed:
- Alice begins the episode she is living a Feminist Fantasy. She soon is in way over her head against villains who don't care about the fact she is a woman as they try to kill her and decides that she would rather prefer not being the one who currently has a bullet in the shoulder, than you very much (that is definitely Bob's job).
- Even amongst the girls, Alice is not comfortable. Her tastes are not theirs, they still do not see eye to eye on certain things, she is too weird to them, and them being alone is only bringing this up to light instead of being the Elephant in the Room.
- Reconstructed:
- Alice grits her teeth and accomplishes the job she set out to do alone, earning an acknowledgement from the other members of the cast who thought she was not tough (with special focus on the macho jerks).
- A significant sub-plot of the episode, then, is the other girls of the cast learning to tolerate Alice — a plot that they are going to grit their teeth and march through because Bob is not there to help.
Go back with the chicks at Girl's Night Out Episode.
