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