Tropescilloscope: Gender Flip

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

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