Tropescilloscope: Gender Flip

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

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