Tropescilloscope: Gender Flip

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

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