Tropescilloscope: Gender Flip

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

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