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A '''Cross Player''' is a person in either real life or a show whose online avatar or video-game/RPG character is of the opposite sex.
This is obviously not the same as a real-life [[
Named for crossplay, a subset of cosplay where one dresses as a character of the other sex.
A crossplayer usually ''isn't'' deceptive about their
Whatever the reason, crossplayers are pretty common in modern [[
Contrast with the [[GIRL]], when a cross player ''is'' actively pretending to be one of the other sex. See also [[There Are No Girls on the Internet]], for the (mostly) discredited phenomenon of users assuming everyone online was male. Though if you wish to use voice chat (often required for high end contents), you cannot hide your sex, no problem for most of us at least.
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The term is also sometimes used to describe someone who plays a character of the opposite sex in a [[Tabletop RPG]].
[[Do Not Confuse With]] [[Cosplay
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Lucky Star]]'' Konata comments on how she enjoys playing a male character in an MMORPG ([[Ragnarok Online]] or something very like it). The ''character'' is "married" to a [[GIRL|female character whose player is a guy]].
* {{spoiler|Tsukasa}} in [[.hack|.hack//sign]]. Not willingly either. Curiously, the voice-work of the series suggests that the game does come with voicefonts for adjusting one's voice.
* ''[[Welcome to The NHK]]'', where {{spoiler|Satou winds up falling in love with a girl he meets online who actually turns out to be his next-door neighbor who wants to convince him that he can't trust women on the internet.}}
* Pretty much the entire point of [https://web.archive.org/web/20131102202218/http://beta.mangafox.com/manga/1_2_prince/ 1/2 Prince]; after getting teased about getting everything for free because she's a girl, the protagonist decides to play [[Bishonen|a boy.]]
* In the ''[[Chobits]]'' anime, Hideki encounters Yoshiyuki Kojima (AKA "Dragonfly") in a MMORPG long before meeting him in person. Although Kojima's avatar is modeled on his persocom Kotoko and he affects some feminine mannerisms, the fact that [[Larynx Dissonance|he does not disguise his voice]] makes his sex a dead giveaway.
** Shinbo
* In ''[[Gintama]]'', Gintoki and Kagura each play a character of the opposite gender in a JRPG called ''[[Affectionate Parody|Monkey]] [[Monster Hunter|Hunter]]''. Justified in Gintoki's case because he is [[Genre Savvy]] enough to understand that people will be more eager to help a cute girl.
== [[
* ''[[Runaways]]'' opens with Alex Wilder playing an MMORPG as several other people, playing as more famous Marvel characters ([[Captain America (comics)]], [[Daredevil]], [[Incredible Hulk]], [[X-Men|White Queen]], and [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Invisible Woman]]). [[Chekhov's Gun|We don't learn this for a long time,]] but White Queen and Invisible Woman are both played by a guy and Daredevil is a woman. Oddly enough, when Alex reveals he's a teenager, none of the other people believe him.
** The one playing the female heroes was a bit obvious, since he was upping the Stripperific-ness. Daredevil was more surprising.
* In ''[[Empowered]]'', at one point there's a girl cosplaying Phallik Spear, of all things.
== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[The Gamers
== [[Literature]] ==
* In Vivian Vande Velde's ''[[User Unfriendly]]'', everyone in the main character's party is a real-life friend of his, but he doesn't know which person is behind which character. He seems to have it all figured out early on, but his assumption that the character's sex must match the player's turns out to be wrong.
* In ''[[Half Prince]]'', this is the main source of conflict. It's usually impossible to play as the opposite sex but the main character was the first to log in and was granted a wish for that. She wanted to be a guy.
== [[Live
* One of the best visual gags in ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' involves a scene showing ''[[
* In ''[[Community]]'' the gang plays Dungeons & Dragons and everyone hastily grabs the character sheets Abed had made. This leaves Annie stuck as a character named Hector the Well-Endowed, which Abed had intended for Troy.
* Mac does this in ''[[CSI: NY]]'' 'Down The Rabbit Hole', where Mac investigated the death of a Second Life cosplayer by going into the game with a female avatar (with help from Adam creating it, since Mac was clueless.)
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* ''[[.hack|.hack//]]'' has done this a few times.
** {{spoiler|Tsukasa}} in ''SIGN'', although this isn't revealed until late in the series and the person in question doesn't believe it at first, having been afflicted with [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]. The individual had serious gender identity issues thanks to {{spoiler|a father who [[Why Couldn't You Be Different?|forced her to act like a boy]]}}.
** The "Let's Meet Offline" extra attached to the ''tasogare no udewa densetsu'' anime has {{spoiler|Hotaru}} as a Cross Player. This is definitely not the case in the manga and the rest of the franchise, and is one of the reasons that the ''[[Portmanteau Series Nickname|udeden]]'' anime is the first major of the [[
** Sakubo of the GU games is a pair of fraternal twins playing the same(female) character. {{spoiler|Except it turns out the girl died when they were born and the boy developed a [[Split Personality]] as a result of his loneliness and his mother's verbal abuse.}}
** Gord and Saburou of Roots are also cross players though the latter ventures into GIRL territory due to their instance they are female. The former is female but plays a male character but it's not touched upon in the series proper.
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* An update to ''[[EVE Online]]'' has actually made it somewhat harder to ID crossplayers (but aided anyone who's a [[GIRL]]) thanks to the introduction of "voice fonts" for the in-game voice chat (TS, Vent, and other voice chat users are out of luck). Even if they don't really work, they should make it harder to tell if it's a guy using a female voice font, or a girl using a female voice font.
{{quote|'''Patchnotes''': Voice fonts have now been added to EVE Voice. This new feature will allow you to alter your voice during chat to increase or lower pitch or to change from male to female voices. [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|This is certainly]] [[Blatant Lies|not going to be abused in any way]].}}
** The Devs from ''[[EVE Online]]'' once published some statistics drawn from their account records indicating that both player sexes played characters of either sex equally on average, leading to roughly even character sex distribution. Since the playerbase is still predominately male, the chance that a male character is played by a guy is still quite a bit higher than a female character being played by a girl.
** ''[[Second Life]]''
* {{spoiler|Shiro}} in ''[[RE: Alistair]]''.
* In ''[[Vindictus]]'' the character classes are canonically single individuals, and so they're gender-locked. Anyone playing a DPSer ''will'' be a guy, and anyone playing a [[Red Mage|mage]] or tank ''will'' be a girl, (Lann, Evie and Fiona, respectively), regardless of real-life gender. Also, when the [[Archer]] and [[Mighty Glacier]] (Kai and Karok) are released, both of them will be guys.
* The MMO ''Metal Assault'' has "gender-locked" characters in which differ in size and statistics. The female characters have higher SP, MP, and speed thresholds, while the males have higher HP and balanced stats. You do the math.
* ''[[Gears of War]] 3'' has medals for playing as females in the multiplayer, which give XP bonuses and are required for [[One Hundred Percent Completion]].
* In
** In ''[[Fallout: New Vegas
*** Some players now did it on purpose when siding against Caesar's Legion.
* Some games such as the ''[[Diablo]]'' series have a specifically-sexed sprite for each character. Want to zing fireballs around? You've got to play as a female Sorceress. Want to summon the dead to do your bidding? All necromancers are male, sorry. ''[[Diablo III]]'', however, has moved away from this trend by allowing players to choose their gender for all classes.▼
** Some Nexon-produced games, such as ''[[Dungeon Fighter Online]]'' and ''[[Vindictus]]'', are also genderlocked. DFO is starting to move away from this, however, with the Female Gunner and recently the Male Fighter.▼
** ''Gold Slam'', a Korean- (and for a brief time, American-) produced tennis game had the same idea with only 5 tennis players with their own distinctive looks and biographies to choose from. Want to [[Unskilled but Strong|stay at the baseline and hit the ball really hard?]] You'll have to be a male character. Want to be [[Weak but Skilled|unpredictable and quick on your feet?]] It's a female character for you.▼
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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** It may have been entirely by Miho's choice; it's implied that she and Largo were among the few players to discover and manipulate the hidden relationship values (although they did so in pretty much opposite ways).
*** Another reading is that Piro knew about the hidden values, and was even pretty adept at manipulating them, but [[Out-Gambitted|Miho was better]]. Even so, that relationship wound up being m0h's downfall, whether or not Miho planned it to happen.
* Tedd of ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' uses a female chatroom avatar; unsurprising, considering his penchant for [[Gender Bender
** Dan's [[Author Avatar]] used to appear as a female anthro squirrel; he switched to male when Elliot was Genderbent.
* Dave, one of the secondary characters in ''[[Real Life Comics]]'', is at one point chided about his preference for playing female MMO characters. He responds that he would much rather spend an MMORPG's requisite hours looking at the [[Third-Person Seductress|back half of a female avatar]] than a male one.
*
* Ian of ''[[Mac Hall]]'' and ''[[Three Panel Soul]]'' crossplays fairly often, most notably his [[World of Warcraft]] character Cherabim and (unwittingly) his [[Morrowind]] character Ren. Also Risu from ''[[City of Villains]]'' or APB. Matt's characters tend to be male, ''[http://machall.com/view.php?date=2006-08-28 buuuuuuuut...]''
* Both [[Cloudcuckoolander|Jim]] and [[Action Girl|Annie]] in ''[[Darths and Droids]]'' provide examples of this trope, playing Padme and Anakin, respectively in the game versions of the
* In ''[[Goblins]]'' it is heavily implied that Drowbabe (and her [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]] Yodette) is played by [http://www.goblinscomic.com/08192005/ a guy].
** If Minmax is to be believed, Forgath is played by a girl. He uses this as a justification for kissing him.
* Tycho in ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' is famous for only playing as women in [[Role
== [[Web Original]] ==
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* Several authors of the ''[[League of Intergalactic Cosmic Champions]]''.
* In ''[[The Gungan Council]]'', many writers, notably those of Phylis, Relen, and Jessan, frequently write the opposite sex. It's more common for women on the site to write males, as well.
* ''[[Equestria Chronicles]]'' naturally has this becuase, well, it's based off a ''girl's'' show and most of the players are ''guys.''
* Youtube [[Let's Play
* [[That Dude in the Suede]] outed Jewwario as this in a crossover review. Most likely as a joke.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Kyle is seen playing as a female human in the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Make Love, Not
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Just pick
** It's common enough that MMORPG has been humorously Backronymed to "Many Men Online, Role-Playing Girls".
**
** Another explanation is being the result of [[Alt-Itis]]. That is, a player starts with a character of their own gender, but eventually start new ones that they decide to try different combinations of character traits with, including gender.
** A new trend in the genre is tying the player characters more closely to the storyline by having them be ''specific individuals'' with pre-written backgrounds and [[Canon]] personalities. Naturally, this locks their gender as well.
* Quite common on ''[http://forum.gateworld.net/forumdisplay.php?f=49 Stargate: Aftermath]''. Most
* According to [[Word of God]], ''[[Penny Arcade]]''{{'}}s Jerry Holkins, like his cartoon alter ego "Tycho" (see above), prefers to play female characters in [[Role
* Also pretty common in single player RPGs where you create your own character. Many modding communities are built around catering to guys and increasingly girls who want to sexify up their [[Distaff Counterpart|Distaff Avatar]].
▲* Some games such as the ''[[Diablo]]'' series have a specifically-sexed sprite for each character. Want to zing fireballs around? You've got to play as a female Sorceress. Want to summon the dead to do your bidding? All necromancers are male, sorry. [[Diablo III]], however, has moved away from this trend by allowing players to choose their gender for all classes.
▲** Some Nexon-produced games, such as ''[[Dungeon Fighter Online]]'' and ''[[Vindictus]]'', are also genderlocked. DFO is starting to move away from this, however, with the Female Gunner and recently the Male Fighter.
▲** ''Gold Slam'', a Korean- (and for a brief time, American-) produced tennis game had the same idea with only 5 tennis players with their own distinctive looks and biographies to choose from. Want to [[Unskilled but Strong|stay at the baseline and hit the ball really hard?]] You'll have to be a male character. Want to be [[Weak but Skilled|unpredictable and quick on your feet?]] It's a female character for you.
* Some appointed that on average, 40% of the players of either sex Crossplay.
* One cosplayer, PikminLink, pulls off [[The Legend of Zelda|Link]] so well that she's even earned praise from Nintendo and [[Shigeru Miyamoto]] himself.
* [[Nico Nico Douga]] musician Tissue-Hime often dresses up as [[Haruhi Suzumiya|Yuki Nagato]]...
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