Tropescilloscope: Gender Flip

Re-envisioning a story with one or more characters as the opposite gender. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Adaptation Dye-Job Russian Films Broken Bird Not Even Bothering with the Accent How We Got Here Eyepatch of Power The Place Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Totally Radical Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Jerkass Has a Point Pragmatic Villainy Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Fanservice Extra Vitriolic Best Buds Up to Eleven Bavarian Fire Drill Credits Gag Race Lift Precision F-Strike The Quiet One Sports Stories Tempting Fate Leave the Camera Running Gilligan Cut Parental Incest Red Right Hand Horror Films For the Evulz Victoria's Secret Compartment Retirony Pretty Little Headshots Idiot Ball Beauty Is Never Tarnished Last-Name Basis Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Zombie Stories Video Credits The Brute Brutal Honesty Call-Back Peek-a-Boo Corpse The Great Depression Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Serious Business A Father to His Men Costume Porn The Oner Armor-Piercing Question Wham Line Protagonist Title Superhero The Dragon Police are Useless Artistic License – Gun Safety Unusually Uninteresting Sight Bowdlerise Black Best Friend Show Within a Show Hollywood Law Crapsack World Horror Comedy Documentary Throwing Your Sword Always Works Fiery Redhead Made of Iron Historical Villain Upgrade Word of God Cat Fight Driven to Suicide Hong Kong Films B-Movie Playing Gertrude Framing Device Groin Attack Shell-Shocked Veteran Action Prologue Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? She's Got Legs A Date with Rosie Palms Early-Bird Cameo Noodle Incident Mind Screw Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Rule of Three Arch-Enemy Humiliation Conga Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Villain Opening Scene Actually Pretty Funny Break the Haughty Heroic BSoD Badass Bookworm Adapted Out Only Known by Their Nickname Important Haircut Badass in a Nice Suit Disguised in Drag After the End Riddle for the Ages Irony Have a Gay Old Time Not So Different I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Daylight Horror Twist Ending Defrosting Ice Queen Evil Plan Ambiguous Disorder Crucified Hero Shot Mythology Gag Tap on the Head The Bully Dramatic Irony Music Stories Air-Vent Passageway Villain with Good Publicity Slasher Smile Dramatic Gun Cock Never Trust a Trailer Chekhov's Gun Humans Are Bastards Heel–Face Turn Soft Glass Anti-Villain Attempted Rape Police Brutality Room Full of Crazy Your Head A-Splode Mama Bear Kill 'em All Cowboy Cop Knight Templar The Load Camp Gay Obviously Evil Bring My Brown Pants The X of Y Slasher Movie As You Know Oh, Crap! 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Politically Incorrect Villain La Résistance Properly Paranoid Man on Fire Took a Level in Jerkass Affectionate Parody Adaptation Expansion Award-Bait Song Jerk with a Heart of Gold Film Noir Henpecked Husband Mood Whiplash Ship Tease Kubrick Stare Never Found the Body A Minor Kidroduction Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Laser-Guided Karma You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Bald of Evil Stepford Smiler My God, What Have I Done? Pay Evil unto Evil Product Placement Camera Abuse Meet Cute Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil What the Hell, Hero? Deconstruction Motor Mouth Real Life Black and Gray Morality The Cavalry Well-Intentioned Extremist Foreshadowing Ax-Crazy Genre Shift Everyone Has Standards Double Entendre Monumental Damage Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Fourth Date Marriage Big "NO!" A.I. Is a Crapshoot Killed Mid-Sentence Decoy Protagonist Mr. Exposition The Dreaded Outrun the Fireball Malevolent Masked Men Cold-Blooded Torture Romantic False Lead Stock Footage Every Car Is a Pinto Unspoken Plan Guarantee Villain Song Obstructive Bureaucrat Face–Heel Turn Dying Moment of Awesome Dutch Angle Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Really Gets Around Unwitting Instigator of Doom Obfuscating Stupidity Redshirt Army Together in Death Instant Death Bullet Funny Foreigner No Celebrities Were Harmed The '50s Lampshade Hanging Non-Indicative Name Depraved Bisexual Heroes Want Redheads Character Development Put on a Bus British Films Punny Name Karma Houdini Needs Wiki Magic Love Creative Closing Credits Cloudcuckoolander Market-Based Title Vampire Fiction Kick the Son of a Bitch Serial Killer Animal Title Index Plucky Comic Relief Mundane Made Awesome Abhorrent Admirer Affably Evil Scary Black Man All Men Are Perverts No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Chekhov's Gunman Thriller Off with His Head! Not So Stoic Actor Allusion Department of Redundancy Department The Stoner Mystery and Detective Films Parental Substitute Deliberate Values Dissonance Drugs Are Bad Pre-Mortem One-Liner Cool Old Guy Anguished Declaration of Love Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer No Name Given Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Wham Shot Deus ex Machina Blatant Lies Hope Spot Grievous Bottley Harm Psychological Thriller Catapult Nightmare Military and Warfare Films The '90s Took a Level in Badass Left the Background Music On Big Fancy House Curse Cut Short Names to Run Away from Really Fast Wretched Hive Older Than They Look Novelization Half the Man He Used to Be Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Frame-Up Adorkable Mugging the Monster Villainous Breakdown Central Theme Mad Scientist Combat Pragmatist Pretty in Mink It's Personal No OSHA Compliance Establishing Character Moment Ironic Echo Intergenerational Friendship As the Good Book Says... Genre Throwback Would Hurt a Child German Films Scenery Porn Laughing Mad Rule of Funny Adaptational Heroism Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Evil Is Hammy Roaring Rampage of Revenge Canon Foreigner Improvised Weapon Leaning on the Fourth Wall Bond One-Liner Babies Ever After Whole Plot Reference Bunny-Ears Lawyer Hero Antagonist Destination Defenestration You Killed My Father True Companions Easily Forgiven Sequel Escalation Alliterative Name Vomit Indiscretion Shot Captain Obvious Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Dogged Nice Guy Villain Protagonist Card-Carrying Villain Not Quite Dead Time Skip Captain Ersatz Mexican Standoff Hidden Depths Sequel Hook The Dog Bites Back 20 Minutes into the Future Darker and Edgier Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Demonic Possession The Film of the Book Beta Couple Celebrity Paradox My Beloved Smother The Hero All Just a Dream Auto Erotica Paper-Thin Disguise Pyrrhic Victory Insult Backfire Those Wacky Nazis Silent Movie You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Only One Name Exact Words Fun with Acronyms Composite Character Romantic Comedy Real Life Writes the Plot Sassy Black Woman Age Lift Martial Arts Movie Betty and Veronica Implacable Man Death Glare Handicapped Badass Arranged Marriage Worthy Opponent Didn't Think This Through Heel Realization Curb-Stomp Battle The Voiceless Woman in White Spared by the Adaptation Bar Brawl Breaking the Fourth Wall Super Strength Distracted by the Sexy Nothing Is Scarier Blackmail Vacation Films Those Two Bad Guys Flipping the Bird "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Insane Troll Logic Bloodless Carnage Sci-Fi Horror Author Avatar Once More, with Clarity! Adaptational Villainy I Have Your Wife Creepy Child Married to the Job Taking the Bullet Truth in Television Broken Pedestal Male Gaze NO INDOOR VOICE Spiteful Spit The Atoner Wrong Genre Savvy Cool Guns Ghost Fiction Star-Crossed Lovers Stalker with a Crush Shut Up, Hannibal! Biopic Gold Digger Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Rasputinian Death The Stinger Not So Above It All Continuity Nod Adaptational Attractiveness Femme Fatale Bolivian Army Ending Yandere Awesome, but Impractical Fate Worse than Death All for Nothing Adaptation Distillation Slashed Throat Retcon Bittersweet Ending Tranquil Fury Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Taking You with Me Make It Look Like an Accident Alpha Bitch Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Eiffel Tower Effect Mr. Fanservice Epic Fail Suspiciously Similar Substitute Naïve Newcomer Faking the Dead An Aesop Expository Hairstyle Change Your Cheating Heart Made of Explodium Fan Disservice The Stoic The End... Or Is It? Cruel and Unusual Death Karmic Death Scare Chord Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Flashback Bad Boss Wicked Cultured Spiritual Successor Off-into-the-Distance Ending Hooker with a Heart of Gold Bond Villain Stupidity The Chessmaster An Axe to Grind Disproportionate Retribution Comically Missing the Point Conspicuous CG The '80s I Need a Freaking Drink Big-Bad Ensemble Big Bad Take That! The Chick Good Is Not Nice Evil Brit Italian Films Bare Your Midriff Badass Boast Five-Man Band Suddenly SHOUTING! The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Big Damn Heroes The Big Guy Bury Your Gays Drives Like Crazy Bait-and-Switch Artistic License – Physics Boom, Headshot! Science Fiction Films Lock and Load Montage Mistaken for Gay Manic Pixie Dream Girl You Have Failed Me It Will Never Catch On The Alcoholic World of Ham Fanservice The Faceless Enemy Mine Fainting And the Adventure Continues One Steve Limit Accidental Murder Covers Always Lie No-Sell Public Domain Feature Films Parental Neglect In Medias Res And Starring Deliberately Monochrome Heterosexual Life-Partners Straight Gay Brainless Beauty No Antagonist Sacrificial Lion One-Word Title Red Oni, Blue Oni Light Is Not Good "Shaggy Dog" Story Adaptational Badass Extremely Short Timespan Shown Their Work Redemption Equals Death Animated Credits Opening Big Brother Instinct Better to Die than Be Killed Wounded Gazelle Gambit Fire-Forged Friends Immune to Bullets Adaptation Name Change Loads and Loads of Characters Retired Badass Epic Movie Chewing the Scenery Random Events Plot Extreme Doormat Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Ominous Latin Chanting Bullying a Dragon Shoot the Shaggy Dog Honor Before Reason Loophole Abuse Suspiciously Specific Denial Match Cut Nice Hat Casting Gag Bland-Name Product The Mole Downer Ending Bi the Way Skewed Priorities He Who Fights Monsters Historical-Domain Character Even Evil Has Standards Psychopathic Manchild Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" It's All About Me Evil Laugh Daddy's Girl Would Hit a Girl No Ending Berserk Button Blood Knight Expy Manipulative Bastard Death by Sex Recycled IN SPACE! Disappeared Dad Gratuitous English Aluminum Christmas Trees Sadistic Choice Badass Normal Dull Surprise Corpsing May–December Romance Death by Adaptation Index of Film Westerns Lighter and Softer Big Eater Cluster F-Bomb Pragmatic Adaptation Facial Horror Running Gag Title Drop Back from the Dead Sealed Evil in a Can Damsel in Distress Dressing as the Enemy Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Logo Joke Tagline Artistic License – Biology He Knows Too Much Shower Scene Hell Is That Noise Interrupted Suicide Toplessness from the Back Reality Has No Subtitles Kick the Dog Evil-Detecting Dog Chase Scene Setting Update Butt-Monkey Sir Swears-a-Lot Rule of Symbolism Large Ham Papa Wolf Based on a True Story Mercy Kill Those Two Guys She Cleans Up Nicely Black Comedy Genre Savvy Reckless Gun Usage This Is Gonna Suck Determinator Disney Villain Death War Is Hell Green-Eyed Monster Cassandra Truth The Power of Love Hair-Trigger Temper Eagleland Scenery Gorn Alas, Poor Villain Adults Are Useless Australian Movies Meaningful Name Final Girl Morality Pet Coming-of-Age Story Sexy Discretion Shot Agony of the Feet Stealth Hi/Bye Shirtless Scene Say My Name The Mafia Determinator aka: The Determinator Break the Cutie Mooks Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Very Loosely Based on a True Story Body Horror Rule of Cool Fantastic Racism Calling the Old Man Out Empathic Environment Disney Death No-Holds-Barred Beatdown The Smart Guy Four-Temperament Ensemble Deadpan Snarker All There in the Manual Call-Forward Race Against the Clock Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Insistent Terminology The Casanova Becoming the Mask Spanner in the Works Artistic License – Law Arc Words "Awesome McCool" Name Evil Sounds Deep Bloodier and Gorier Fingore Getting Crap Past the Radar Action Survivor Cat Scare Cool Car Face Death with Dignity Bilingual Bonus Plot Hole My Greatest Failure Dumb Blonde Abusive Parents Closed Circle Overly Long Gag MacGuffin Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Cool Shades Offscreen Teleportation Almost Kiss Author Appeal The Lancer Guns Akimbo Men Are the Expendable Gender Badass Grandpa An Arm and a Leg Here We Go Again! Spell My Name with an "S" BFG All Girls Want Bad Boys The Cameo Only a Flesh Wound Ambiguously Gay Red Eyes, Take Warning From Nobody to Nightmare Big Applesauce Batman Gambit Death of a Child Freudian Excuse Soundtrack Dissonance A God Am I Eye Scream Gender Flip Stuff Blowing Up Darkest Hour Pet the Dog In the Back Dark Is Not Evil Take a Third Option Heroic Sacrifice Smoking Is Cool The Un-Reveal For Want of a Nail Knife Nut And I Must Scream Gone Horribly Right Bottomless Magazines Belligerent Sexual Tension Catch-Phrase The '70s Let's Get Dangerous! Canadian Movies Death Seeker Gainax Ending Informed Ability Antagonist Title Works Set in World War II Jerkass Psycho for Hire Smug Snake Hypocrite Artistic License – History Hate Sink Ass Shove Reality Is Unrealistic Ungrateful Bastard O.O.C. Is Serious Business As Himself Love Triangle Undying Loyalty Kids Are Cruel Amoral Attorney Our Zombies Are Different Punch-Clock Villain Beard of Evil Missing Mom Earn Your Happy Ending Self-Deprecation The Vamp folderlabel Maybe Ever After French Films Major Injury Underreaction Eureka Moment Fat Bastard Even Evil Has Loved Ones Hoist by His Own Petard Hollywood Darkness Artistic License – Military Not What It Looks Like Country Matters Evil vs. Evil Parental Abandonment Asshole Victim Woman Scorned Rewatch Bonus Ascended Extra Blood from the Mouth The Bad Guy Wins Greater-Scope Villain Small Name, Big Ego Sanity Slippage Reasonable Authority Figure Animal Motifs Danny Peary Cult Movies List Due to the Dead The Remake Happily Married Defiant to the End Red Herring Token Minority Dual Wielding Chekhov's Skill Grey and Gray Morality Leitmotif Stylistic Suck Brother–Sister Incest Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Unreliable Narrator Fatal Flaw Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Dirty Cop Pimped-Out Dress Corrupt Corporate Executive Shout-Out Punctuated! For! Emphasis! The Alleged Car Contrived Coincidence Only Sane Man Children Are Innocent Dark Action Girl Translation Convention Reality Ensues Dwindling Party Does Not Like Shoes Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience The Ace Anachronism Stew Dies Wide Open One-Man Army Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Dropped a Bridge on Him Bloody Hilarious "Well Done, Son!" Guy There Is No Kill Like Overkill Advertised Extra I Did What I Had to Do Action Girl Television Movie Index Faux Affably Evil Apocalypse How Rated M for Manly Fatal Family Photo Madness Mantra Not Using the "Z" Word Neck Snap Homage