Tropescilloscope: Gender Flip

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

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