Tropescilloscope: Gender Flip

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

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