Tropescilloscope: Gender Flip

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

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