Tropescilloscope: Gender Flip

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

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