The Battle Lovers and Maximum Gorar from Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE! are basically Magical Boy Warriors and Caerula Adamas and the VEPPer are basically Dark Magical Boys.until their respective Heel-Face Turns, that is.Bungou Stray Dogs has Kyoka Izumi and Kouyou Ozaki, two historical male writers, gender flipped as females in the series.Bomberman B-Daman Bakugaiden, loosely based on the Bomberman game series, included a female Akabon (Red Bomber) rather than the male Akabon from the videogames.Some American fans may not know this, due to the fact that the English version of the manga made Shiki a male as well. Black Cat: In the original manga, Shiki was a female, but was made a male for the anime adaptation.There's a two-volume Beyblade Spin-Off manga called Beyblade Battle: Holy Dragon Legend, which stars female versions of the Bladebreakers from the first anime.Battle Girls: Time Paradox does this for the Sengoku period, the same as Koihime, Strike Witches and Hyakka Ryouran.Pluto splits the difference by keeping Epsilon male, but giving him an extremely feminine appearance. In the 2003 Astro Boy series, Photar is reimagined as a woman called Epsilon.President Aria wakes up thinking that this alternate world may have been just a dream, but then he sees his female otherworld self smiling at him through the mirror. Everybody also still behaves exactly the same as before. One chapter/episode of ARIA featured President Aria ending up in a world where the gender of everyone in the cast was flipped, but their names remained the same.Actually, the last two are female too: Hanbei uses a male Familiar to act as her personage, while Nagamasa is being a Sweet Polly Oliver. For example, the eponymous character and Imagawa Yoshimoto are female, while Saitou Dousan, Takenaka Hanbei, and Asai Nagamasa remain male. The Ambition of Oda Nobuna is yet another Gender Flip take on Warring States period, but only partially.See also Race Lift when it's the ethnicity that changes. See also Distaff Counterpart and Historical Gender Flip. Those are covered (for examples involving couples, anyway) by Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy. When a song gets this treatment in a Cover Version, that's The Cover Changes the Gender.Īlso note that this trope is not about 'gender roles' in the generic sense. If an Alternate Universe flips everyone's sexes, that's Gender-Bent Alternate Universe. if a character is male in the book but is made female in the movie. A Gender Flip is when a character's sex is changed through an adaptation, e.g. note On this wiki, Gender Bender is when a character's sex is changed In-Universe through Applied Phlebotinum or the like.

Not to be confused with Gender Bender, though the terms are sometimes used interchangeably. For example, a production of Hamlet that (as in Shakespeare's own day) had Ophelia played by a boy would be a Crosscast Role, but a production with a male actor playing a male character named 'Ophelius' and referred to in the text with male pronouns would be a Gender Flip. Distinguished from Crosscast Role, in which the actor is the opposite sex of the character.

Supertrope of She's a Man in Japan, which is specifically about localizations changing a character's gender. Gender Flip characters will often differ from their originals in a great many ways other than the character's sex. A good general rule of thumb is that a Rule 63 character looks like exactly the same character, as if subjected to Gender Bender. Rule 63 is closely related, but executed differently. The results can be particularly interesting in these cases, as the written role may be almost completely unchanged from its original opposite-gender version.įanfics that use this trope are fairly common. Occasionally, the Gender Flip occurs with a work that's already in development, or even in production (due to, for example, an actor's sudden unavailability or simply a last-minute casting idea). Sometimes the remake or reimagining of a work may involve Gender Flips due to societal changes on the Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality that, for example, would allow a formerly male Number Two to be an Action Girl instead. It's a very old technique of retelling a story many folk Fairy Tales have Gender Flip variants. If you are able to give it a little more thought, though, you can take this opportunity to explore how there might be a difference in the way things play out with the genders reversed. If you are in a hurry, you only need to change the casting, a few honorifics, pronouns, and maybe a first name or two. Here's a quick spin on an old story: flip the male roles to the women and the female roles to the men. Christopher Lee on his role in The Wicker Man (1973) being recast in the 2006 remake

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