Tropescilloscope: Gender Flip

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

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