Tropescilloscope: Gender Flip

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

More Tropes Neck Lift Bolivian Army Ending Hooker with a Heart of Gold Domestic Abuse French Films Leitmotif Worthy Opponent Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Foil Only in It for the Money Funny Foreigner The Lancer Time Skip Your Head A-Splode And the Adventure Continues Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Have a Gay Old Time The Chick Rousing Speech Karmic Death The Stoic Defrosting Ice Queen Cat Scare Shipper on Deck Adaptational Badass Spell My Name with an "S" Body Horror Overprotective Dad All Men Are Perverts Scenery Gorn Whole Plot Reference Vitriolic Best Buds An Arm and a Leg The Ditz Conspicuous CG Word of God It Will Never Catch On Chekhov's Skill Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Truth in Television Artistic License – Biology Hoist by His Own Petard Groin Attack Psycho for Hire Adaptational Villainy Evil-Detecting Dog No Name Given Visual Pun Hero Antagonist The '70s More Dakka Chase Scene Hope Spot Central Theme Deadpan Snarker Fish out of Water Drowning My Sorrows Knight Templar Author Avatar Gratuitous English Hate Sink Bloodless Carnage Victoria's Secret Compartment Paper-Thin Disguise Humans Are Bastards Bad "Bad Acting" Mind Screw Break the Cutie Every Car Is a Pinto 20 Minutes into the Future Real Life Undying Loyalty Bilingual Bonus You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Sexy Discretion Shot Heterosexual Life-Partners Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Cruel and Unusual Death Wham Line The Brute Meaningful Background Event Call-Back In Medias Res Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Manic Pixie Dream Girl Extremely Short Timespan La Résistance Casting Gag Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Does Not Like Shoes Black and Gray Morality Evil Sounds Deep In the Back Our Vampires Are Different Not So Different Works Set in World War II Implacable Man Irony Five-Man Band Artistic License – Physics Villain Protagonist Shoot the Shaggy Dog Homage The '50s Those Two Bad Guys Enemy Mine What Happened to the Mouse? Beware the Nice Ones Artistic License – Law Fanservice Extra Deconstruction Take a Third Option Bavarian Fire Drill Dumb Blonde Aside Glance The Starscream Action Prologue Setting Update Fantastic Racism The Musical Fiery Redhead Suddenly SHOUTING! Big "NO!" Dark Is Not Evil Spiritual Successor Affectionate Parody Department of Redundancy Department Woman Scorned Blackmail It Can Think Retcon Adults Are Useless Silent Movie Guile Hero And I Must Scream I'm a Humanitarian Author Appeal Bar Brawl Genre Savvy Very Loosely Based on a True Story Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Red Herring The Great Depression The Dog Bites Back Depraved Bisexual Abhorrent Admirer Black Dude Dies First Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Unspoken Plan Guarantee Mercy Kill Chiaroscuro N-Word Privileges Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Animal Motifs Fanservice Anti-Hero Drives Like Crazy All There in the Manual Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Bloody Hilarious Fainting Parental Neglect Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Shut Up, Hannibal! Adaptation Distillation Mr. Exposition Four-Temperament Ensemble Took a Level in Jerkass Refuge in Audacity Dramatic Gun Cock Pay Evil unto Evil Curse Cut Short Smoking Is Cool You Have Failed Me Not Quite Dead Storming the Castle Chekhov's Gun One-Word Title Scenery Porn The Casanova Henpecked Husband Sanity Slippage Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Mythology Gag Belligerent Sexual Tension Line-of-Sight Name My God, What Have I Done? Amoral Attorney Love Triangle "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Cain and Abel Papa Wolf Well-Intentioned Extremist Motor Mouth Here We Go Again! Gainax Ending And Starring Neck Snap Male Gaze Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Captain Ersatz Disguised in Drag You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Shell-Shocked Veteran Sealed Evil in a Can Abusive Parents Daylight Horror Driven to Suicide Cool Old Lady Spanner in the Works Mighty Whitey Rule of Cool Smug Snake It's All About Me Not Even Bothering with the Accent Politically Incorrect Villain Twist Ending Superhero Meaningful Name Nothing Is Scarier Kubrick Stare For the Evulz The Quiet One "The Reason You Suck" Speech Pet the Dog Heel Realization The Vamp Cool Shades Mooks Off with His Head! Manchild Meet Cute Antagonist Title Manly Tears Throwing Your Sword Always Works Show Within a Show Shout-Out Bad Boss Rule of Funny Kill 'em All Epic Fail Death by Adaptation Ghost Fiction Pre-Asskicking One-Liner No-Sell Flashback A.I. Is a Crapshoot Made of Iron Historical Hero Upgrade Pretty in Mink The Dreaded As Himself Fate Worse than Death Noodle Incident Heroes Want Redheads The Place Eyepatch of Power Insult Backfire The Smurfette Principle Slap-Slap-Kiss Sassy Black Woman The Bad Guy Wins Interrupted Suicide Rewatch Bonus Fatal Flaw Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Scary Black Man Disproportionate Retribution Translation Convention Lampshade Hanging Extreme Doormat Slashed Throat Empathic Environment Married to the Job Only a Flesh Wound Closed Circle Captain Obvious I Have Your Wife Bitch in Sheep's Clothing No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Everyone Has Standards Dark and Troubled Past Villain Song Decoy Protagonist Fantasy Films Our Zombies Are Different Catch-Phrase Offscreen Teleportation Demoted to Extra timeperiod Parental Substitute The Alcoholic Adaptation Name Change A God Am I Only Known by Their Nickname Epic Movie Fatal Family Photo MacGuffin Slasher Smile Historical Villain Upgrade Mood Whiplash Adaptational Heroism Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Butt-Monkey Rape as Drama Faux Affably Evil Age Lift Foreshadowing Villainous Breakdown Creepy Child Moment Killer Cluster F-Bomb Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Better to Die than Be Killed Hollywood Darkness Children Are Innocent Retired Badass Mama Bear Re-Cut As Long as It Sounds Foreign Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Male Frontal Nudity Bald of Evil Insistent Terminology Soft Glass Animated Credits Opening The Stoner Eldritch Abomination Revenge Race Lift Creator Cameo Ungrateful Bastard Naïve Newcomer Heroic BSoD The '90s Market-Based Title Romantic Comedy The '60s Deal with the Devil Non-Indicative Name Oh, Crap! Even Evil Has Loved Ones Adaptational Attractiveness Grievous Bottley Harm An Axe to Grind Shower Scene Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Dogged Nice Guy Title Drop Did Not Get the Girl Evil Laugh The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Dark Action Girl Red Shirt Darker and Edgier The Mafia Badass in a Nice Suit Eagleland Trailers Always Spoil Rated M for Manly Destination Defenestration Would Hit a Girl Auto Erotica "Well Done, Son!" Guy Ms. Fanservice Wretched Hive Apocalypse How As the Good Book Says... Black Comedy What You Are in the Dark Berserk Button Faking the Dead Freeze-Frame Bonus Your Cheating Heart Pyrrhic Victory Humiliation Conga Unusual Euphemism Intrepid Reporter I Did What I Had to Do No Celebrities Were Harmed Video Credits Big Brother Instinct Sequel Hook Babies Ever After Once More, with Clarity! Diabolus ex Machina Stepford Smiler Darkest Hour Vampire Fiction '80s Hair Redemption Equals Death Stealth Hi/Bye Almost Kiss Honor Before Reason Gone Horribly Right Tempting Fate Celebrity Paradox Adapted Out Ripped from the Headlines Mr. Fanservice All for Nothing Anachronic Order The Voiceless Anachronism Stew Annoying Younger Sibling Dwindling Party "Awesome McCool" Name NO INDOOR VOICE Agony of the Feet Jerkass Has a Point Historical-Domain Character He Who Fights Monsters Bare Your Midriff Death by Irony Killed Mid-Sentence Horror Films Russian Films Malevolent Masked Men Bowdlerise Aluminum Christmas Trees German Films Friend to All Children Drill Sergeant Nasty Death by Sex Downer Ending Horror Comedy War Is Hell Crucified Hero Shot Dirty Coward Stalker with a Crush Famous Last Words Cloudcuckoolander The Sociopath Face–Heel Turn Action Girl Vacation Films Genre Throwback True Companions Arc Words The Hero Dies Tap on the Head Grey and Gray Morality Vomit Discretion Shot Country Matters Serial Killer Leaning on the Fourth Wall No OSHA Compliance Mad Scientist Dramedy Demonic Possession Final Girl Corpsing Stylistic Suck The Film of the Book Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Plucky Comic Relief Totally Radical Real Life Writes the Plot Calling the Old Man Out Take That! Damsel in Distress Only One Name Playing Gertrude Laser-Guided Karma Face Death with Dignity Large Ham Shown Their Work Crazy Jealous Guy Pragmatic Adaptation Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Fat Bastard Based on a True Story Expository Hairstyle Change Reality Has No Subtitles My Beloved Smother Double Entendre Same Language Dub Contrived Coincidence Easily Forgiven Running Gag Mystery and Detective Films Artistic License – Military Italian Films Flipping the Bird Parental Incest All Girls Want Bad Boys The X of Y Funny Background Event Actually Pretty Funny The '80s Costume Porn Ass Shove Book-Ends Bottomless Magazines The Un-Reveal Reasonable Authority Figure Red Right Hand Action Genre Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Pretty Little Headshots Would Hurt a Child Covers Always Lie The Ace Nice Guy Shirtless Scene Intergenerational Friendship Skewed Priorities Hong Kong Films Redshirt Army Loads and Loads of Characters Last-Name Basis Action Survivor Alpha Bitch Evil Counterpart Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Morality Pet Red Eyes, Take Warning Cool Car Scare Chord Small Name, Big Ego Lighter and Softer Determinator aka: The Determinator Love at First Sight She Cleans Up Nicely Rasputinian Death Made of Explodium Lock and Load Montage Maybe Ever After Dirty Old Man Race Against the Clock Insane Troll Logic Handicapped Badass Cassandra Truth Accidental Misnaming Car Fu Dark Reprise Defiant to the End Blood from the Mouth After the End Badass Bookworm Attempted Rape Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Psychopathic Manchild Evil vs. Evil "Shaggy Dog" Story Off-into-the-Distance Ending Karma Houdini Make It Look Like an Accident Novelization Bland-Name Product A Date with Rosie Palms The Hero Eureka Moment One Steve Limit Up to Eleven Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Monumental Damage Index of Film Westerns Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Becoming the Mask Red Oni, Blue Oni Distracted by the Sexy Toplessness from the Back Exact Words Soundtrack Dissonance Card-Carrying Villain Jerk with a Heart of Gold Despair Event Horizon The Oner Green-Eyed Monster Beauty Is Never Tarnished A Father to His Men Ax-Crazy Sequel Escalation Suspiciously Similar Substitute Not So Stoic All Just a Dream folderlabel Freudian Excuse The Power of Love Pragmatic Villainy Bunny-Ears Lawyer Composite Character BFG Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Bait-and-Switch Exactly What It Says on the Tin Tranquil Fury Taking the Bullet Anyone Can Die Sadistic Choice Adaptation Expansion Older Than They Look Jump Scare No Ending Does This Remind You of Anything? Laughing Mad Film Series The Atoner You Killed My Father Disney Villain Death Police are Useless Riddle for the Ages Affably Evil Beta Couple All There in the Script Obviously Evil Hair-Trigger Temper Never Found the Body Brainless Beauty Big Damn Heroes Deliberate Values Dissonance From Bad to Worse Cat Fight Animal Title Index Nice Hat Brutal Honesty The Stinger B-Movie Curb-Stomp Battle Bury Your Gays Getting Crap Past the Radar Expy Ambiguously Gay Kill It with Fire Cowboy Cop Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Together in Death Dressing as the Enemy Catapult Nightmare Award-Bait Song Plot Hole Cold-Blooded Torture Sir Swears-a-Lot Pre-Mortem One-Liner Happily Married Unwitting Instigator of Doom Danny Peary Cult Movies List Mexican Standoff Tagline Asshole Victim Earn Your Happy Ending Wrong Genre Savvy Developing Doomed Characters Badass Normal Australian Movies Japanese Films How We Got Here Get Out! Creative Closing Credits Sci-Fi Horror Dirty Cop Mugging the Monster Properly Paranoid Pimped-Out Dress In Name Only Obfuscating Stupidity Romantic False Lead Evil Is Petty Idiot Ball Bi the Way Really Gets Around Foregone Conclusion Overly Long Gag Military and Warfare Films The Faceless Big Bad Duumvirate Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Gory Discretion Shot Credits Gag The Cameo Slasher Movie Improbable Weapon User Chewing the Scenery Establishing Character Moment No Antagonist Immune to Bullets Stealth Pun Music Stories Kids Are Cruel Gorn Spiteful Spit Authority Equals Asskicking Combat Pragmatist Badass Grandpa Black Comedy Rape Super Strength Reality Is Unrealistic Dropped a Bridge on Him Blood Knight Arranged Marriage Failed a Spot Check Ambiguous Ending Betty and Veronica Not What It Looks Like Continuity Nod Canadian Movies Self-Deprecation Yandere Unresolved Sexual Tension Genre Shift Guns Akimbo Breaking the Fourth Wall Camera Abuse Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome An Aesop Big-Bad Ensemble Villain with Good Publicity Gold Digger Fourth Date Marriage Early-Bird Cameo Double-Meaning Title He Knows Too Much Narrator Bittersweet Ending Meaningful Echo Canon Foreigner Ambiguous Disorder Knife Nut Product Placement Fan Disservice Didn't Think This Through Death of a Child Missing Mom Arch-Enemy Adult Fear Accidental Murder Fun with Acronyms Star-Crossed Lovers Broken Aesop Peek-a-Boo Corpse Hollywood Law Crapsack World Gilligan Cut Actor Allusion The Bully Offscreen Moment of Awesome Hidden Depths Ship Tease Woman in White Recycled IN SPACE! Ominous Latin Chanting Zombie Stories Advertised Extra Hypocritical Humor Science Fiction Films World of Ham The End... Or Is It? This Is Gonna Suck Loophole Abuse I Need a Freaking Drink Wounded Gazelle Gambit The Alleged Car Imagine Spot Be Careful What You Wish For O.O.C. Is Serious Business Big Applesauce Men Are the Expendable Gender Drugs Are Bad As You Know The Big Guy Deliberately Monochrome Kick the Dog Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Too Dumb to Live Alliterative Name Rich Bitch Let's Get Dangerous! Punch-Clock Villain Big Bad Manipulative Bastard Framing Device Call-Forward Coming-of-Age Story The Cavalry Femme Fatale Adaptation Dye-Job Light Is Not Good Death Glare Unusually Uninteresting Sight Reckless Gun Usage The Lost Lenore Amusing Injuries Token Minority No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Instant Death Bullet Police Brutality Broken Pedestal Evil Is Hammy Those Two Guys The Load Hell Is That Noise Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Jerk Jock She's Got Legs Good Is Not Nice Thriller Cool Old Guy Broken Bird Improbable Aiming Skills Brick Joke British Films Ironic Echo Bound and Gagged The Chessmaster Determinator Martial Arts Movie There Is No Kill Like Overkill Taking You with Me Daddy's Girl Mistaken for Gay Ascended Extra Eye Scream Sports Stories Blatant Lies Alas, Poor Villain Disney Death Boom, Headshot! Heroic Sacrifice Crazy-Prepared Even Evil Has Standards Dutch Angle Punny Name Artistic License – Gun Safety Bond Villain Stupidity Straight Gay Hypocrite It's Personal Rule of Three Retirony Unreliable Narrator Spared by the Adaptation Eiffel Tower Effect Evil Plan Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Chekhov's Gunman What the Hell, Hero? Badass Longcoat Mundane Made Awesome Protagonist Title Due to the Dead Bloodier and Gorier The Dragon Madness Mantra Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Sinister Minister Bond One-Liner Important Haircut Names to Run Away from Really Fast Facial Horror Cool Guns Brother–Sister Incest Never My Fault The Mole Back from the Dead Beard of Evil Naked People Are Funny Dying Moment of Awesome Public Domain Feature Films For Want of a Nail Death Seeker Dramatic Irony Film Noir Index Only Sane Man Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Kick the Son of a Bitch Suspiciously Specific Denial The Reveal Jitter Cam Psychological Thriller Not Using the "Z" Word Sacrificial Lion Character Development Break the Haughty Wham Shot Heel–Face Turn Artistic License – History Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Documentary Deus ex Machina Left the Background Music On Badass Boast Fingore Dual Wielding Posthumous Character The Ghost Obstructive Bureaucrat Put on a Bus Greater-Scope Villain Evil Brit Reality Ensues Silence Is Golden Armor-Piercing Question Black Best Friend Jerkass Awesome, but Impractical Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Anti-Villain Took a Level in Badass Hero of Another Story Training Montage Roaring Rampage of Revenge The Smart Guy Vomit Indiscretion Shot Fake Shemp Fire-Forged Friends Informed Ability Never Trust a Trailer Half the Man He Used to Be One-Man Army Historical In-Joke Logo Joke Not So Above It All Camp Gay Major Injury Underreaction A Minor Kidroduction Man on Fire Comically Missing the Point Dies Wide Open Stock Footage I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Christmas Movies Index Adorkable Match Cut My Greatest Failure From Nobody to Nightmare Gender Flip Outrun the Fireball Sole Survivor Villain Opening Scene Poor Communication Kills Television Movie Index Ragtag Bunch of Misfits May–December Romance Say My Name Those Wacky Nazis Dull Surprise Serious Business Corrupt Corporate Executive Anguished Declaration of Love Improvised Weapon Stuff Blowing Up Rule of Symbolism Frame-Up Leave the Camera Running Disappeared Dad Bullying a Dragon Film Noir Needs Wiki Magic Love Villain Ball Biopic Parental Abandonment Wicked Cultured Batman Gambit Big Fancy House The Remake Random Events Plot Air-Vent Passageway Big Eater Precision F-Strike Artistic License – Geography Bring My Brown Pants Early Installment Weirdness Room Full of Crazy Dissonant Serenity