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While heroes are usually the ones to get this kind of treatment, it's been happening more and more to villains too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Usually tends to wear a [[Gendered Outfit]].

* [[Action Hero]] ↔ [[Action Girl]]

* [[Agent Peacock]] ↔ [[Kicking Ass in All Her Finery]]

* [[All Men Are Perverts]] ↔ [[All Women Are Lustful]]

* [[Always Male]] ↔ [[Always Female]]

* [[Archnemesis Dad]] ↔ [[Evil Matriarch]]

* [[Badass Biker]] ↔ [[Biker Babe]]

* [[Bald Black Leader Guy]] ↔ [[Black Boss Lady]]

* [[Balls of Steel]] ↔ [[Boobs of Steel]]

* [[Bridal Carry]] ↔ [[Effortless Amazonian Lift]]

* [[Camp Gay]] ↔ [[Butch Lesbian]]

* [[Chippendales Dancers]] ↔ [[Playboy Bunny]]

* [[Chivalrous Pervert]] ↔ [[Good Bad Girl]]

* [[Clint Squint]] ↔ [[Tsurime Eyes]]

* [[Cock Fight]] ↔ [[Betty and Veronica]]

* [[Crusty Caretaker]] ↔ [[Creepy Housekeeper]]

* [[Cultured Badass]] ↔ [[Silk Hiding Steel]]

* [[Depraved Homosexual]] ↔ [[Psycho Lesbian]]

* [[Determinator]] ↔ [[Plucky Girl]]

* [[Disappeared Dad]] ↔ [[Missing Mom]]

* [[Disguised in Drag]] ↔ [[Sweet Polly Oliver]]

* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]] ↔ [[Lady Looks Like a Dude]] and [[Bifauxnen]]

* [[Enigmatic Minion]] ↔ [[Perky Female Minion]]

* [[Gentleman Thief]] ↔ [[Classy Cat Burglar]]

* [[Gentleman Wizard]] ↔ [[Lady of Black Magic]]

* [[The Good King]] ↔ [[The High Queen]]

* [[Grease Monkey]], [[Handy Man]] and [[Mr. Fixit]] ↔ [[Wrench Wench]]

* [[Groin Attack]] ↔ [[Breast Attack]]

* [[Gym Bunny]] ↔ [[Lesbian Jock]]

* [[Heroic Build]] ↔ [[Most Common Superpower]]

* [[Hot Dad]] ↔ [[Hot Mom]]

* [[House Husband]] ↔ [[Housewife]]

* [[Jerk Jock]] ↔ [[Alpha Bitch]]

* [[Keet]] ↔ [[Genki Girl]]

* [[Manly Men Can Hunt]] and [[Real Men Cook]] ↔ [[Feminine Women Can Cook]]

* [[Marty Stu]] ↔ [[Mary Sue]]

* [[Mr. Fanservice]] ↔ [[Ms. Fanservice]]

* [[Mysterious Protector]] ↔ [[Aloof Ally]]

* [[The One Guy]] ↔ [[The Smurfette Principle]]

* [[Overprotective Dad]] ↔ [[My Beloved Smother]]

* [[Papa Wolf]] ↔ [[Mama Bear]]

* [[Prince Charming]] ↔ [[Princess Classic]]

* [[Princely Young Man]] and [[The White Prince]] ↔ [[Ojou]]

* [[Rebel Prince]] ↔ [[Rebellious Princess]]

* [[Samurai]] ↔ [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]

* [[Scary Black Man]] or [[Angry Black Man]] ↔ [[Sassy Black Woman]]

* [[Shirtless Scene]] ↔ [[Lingerie Scene]]

* [[Shotacon]] ↔ [[Lolicon]]

* [[Southern Gentleman]] ↔ [[Southern Belle]]

* [[Straw Feminist]] ↔ [[Straw Misogynist]]

* [[Team Dad]] ↔ [[Team Mom]]

* [[Teeny Weenie]] ↔ [[Pettanko]]

* [[A Threesome Is Manly]] ↔ [[A Threesome Is Hot]]

* [[Troubled but Cute]] ↔ [[Broken Bird]]

* [[Understanding Boyfriend]] ↔ [[Violently Protective Girlfriend]]

* [[Unlucky Everydude]] ↔ [[Naive Everygirl]]

* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]] ↔ [[Walking Swimsuit Scene]]

* [[Warrior Prince]] ↔ [[Badass Princess]]

* [[The Wise Prince]] ↔ [[The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask]]

* [[Yaoi Guys]] ↔ [[Token Yuri Girls]]

* [[Yellow Peril]] ↔ [[Dragon Lady]]

* [[You Sexy Beast]] ↔ [[Cute Monster Girl]]

* [[Yuri Fan]] ↔ [[Yaoi Fangirl]]

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* [[Rurouni Kenshin|Kenshin Himura]] -- [[Kazemakase Tsukikage Ran|Ran Tsukikage]].

* [[Trigun|Vash the Stampede]] -- [[Grenadier|Rushuna Tendo]].

* [[Great Teacher Onizuka|Eikichi Onizuka]] -- [[Gokusen|Kumiko Yamaguchi]].

* [[Berserk|Guts]] -- [[Claymore|Clare]].

** [[Freezing|Satellizer]] can also be added to that list.

* [[Soul Eater|Soul Eater (Manga)]]: The whole Spartoi group.-- When the group goes into {{spoiler|the Book of Eibon after Noah and Kido-kun, the first chapter, "Lust"}} turns the males female and vice versa. They then make comments on how odd they look, until a team of [[Nosebleed|Female Succubus]] come and try to defeat them.

* ''[[Digimon]]'' has several:

* [[G Gundam|Domon]] -- [[Code Geass|Kallen]]. Complete with similar faces and hairstyles, fighting styles, and issues with their fathers and falling in love with someone with daddy issues themselves.

** [[Memetic Mutation|Like father, like daughter]].

* ''[[Devilman Lady]]'' was spawned from ''[[Devilman]]'', although it evolved into its own strange series. Since that name kind of doesn't make much sense, the official English version of the anime is called ''The Devil Lady''.

** This was at least partially the inspiration for ''[[Kinnikuman]] Lady'' - though in that case, it's an alternate universe where everyone is gender-flipped except Meat. Instead of being about the world's beefiest buffoon, it's about the world's ditziest bimbo. Joining the "stupid, inherently contradictory name" race is Kinnikuman Lady's bestest pal Terryman Girl.

* ''[[Aoi House]]'' = [[Girls Love|Uri]] [[Yuri Fan|House]].

* ''[[Cutey Honey]]'' was originally created as a distaff counterpart to ''[[Warrior of Love Rainbowman]]''.

* [[Maria Holic|Mariya]] -- [[Mayo Chiki|Kanade]]

* [[Naruto|Orochimaru and Kabuto]] -- [[Soul Eater|Medusa]]

* ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' has [[The Hero]] Sena and [[Action Girl]] Karin. Both were recruited initially against their will to join a football team. Both are considered the best in their specialty (running back and quarterback respectively) and both [[Apologises a Lot]] with low self-esteem and being the [[Nice Guy]] / [[Nice Girl]]. The only thing really different about them is their gender and appearance.

* Alois Trancy from [[Black Butler]] is a male [[Fille Fatale]].

 

* [[Supergirl]] is the [[Trope Codifier]]. Although not the first female copy of an established hero (Mary Marvel and Bulletgirl preceded her), she has had the most longevity and the most incarnations, including her own movie. Despite this, DC never really seems to know what to do with her, and the character has never [[Growing the Beard|found her niche]].

* ''The Authority'' featured several issues where the team recruited distaff counterparts from alternate dimensions.

** ''[[The Hawk And The Dove]]'' started out with the protagonists (two brothers) as a [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man]]. They were replaced by a [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]] (though the Girly Girl had been teaming up with the Manly Man since Post-Crisis - and, as of ''[[Brightest Day]]'', they're [[Status Quo Is God|back to that situation]]).

** One particularly shameless example is Thor Girl, obviously a counterpart to [[The Mighty Thor|Thor]]. What makes it silly is that "Thor" isn't a superhero alias, it's just Thor's name. Putting "Girl" on the end of it is roughly equivalent to calling Supergirl "Clark Kent Girl" or Spider-Woman "Peter Parker Woman".

* The graphic novel ''[[Camelot 3000]]'' features Sir Tristan reincarnated as a woman, forcing him to re-examine his medieval views toward gender roles, especially since the feelings between him and Isolde, also reincarnated as a woman, are unchanged. Their enduring passion for each other ultimately transcends gender, and the two remain together.

** It gets a bit confusing when you considder that Earth 11 features [[Gender Flip]] versions of characters that already HAVE Distaff Counterparts, or who already ARE distaff Counterparts. For example; [http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Superlad_(Earth-11) Superlad]

* ''[[Metal Men]]'' Issue 32 features a story called "The Metal Women Blues", where the team gets jealous of Tin and Nameless and get their creator, Will Magnus, to create opposite sex counterparts for them. During the subsequent mission, a rift grows between the males (Gold, Iron, Lead, Tin, Mercury, and Platinum Man) and females (Gold Girl, Iron Girl, Lead Girl, Nameless, Mercury Girl, and Platinum).

* In [[Dark Age|the '90s]], the producers of the ''Zorro'' comics introduced spinoff character Lady Rawhide, who, although sharing his quest for justice, was otherwise decidedly '''not''' a distaff counterpart. In the interest of being accurate to the Wild West setting, she was [[Most Common Superpower|rather plain]] and wore a [[Stripperiffic|demure, tasteful costume]]. Or not.

* Sharon Ventura aka Ms. Marvel II who became a female version of the Fantastic Four's Thing. She doesn't like the codename She-Thing.

{{quote|"All the ladies just want to be me, I guess."|'''Spider-Man''', ''Incredible Hercules'' #139}}

* American Dream, in the [[Marvel Comics 2]] universe [[Spider-Girl]] comes from, is a distaff Captain America. A little more than half of the heroes in this 'verse are heroines, in fact.

* Carrie Kelly, the Robin from ''[[The Dark Knight Returns]]''. Stephanie "Spoiler" Brown's brief run as Robin may also count.

* X-23, a female version of [[Wolverine]] with a foot claw. Better than it sounds.

* Tallulah Black from ''[[Jonah Hex]]''. Like Hex, she's a physically and mentally scarred individual with absolutely nothing to lose.

** Not to mention newcomer Lady Stilt-Man. Who has since dropped the "Lady" despite remaining a lady.

** Oddly enough, Lizard's distaff counterpart Komodo does double duty as both this and as a [[Evil Counterpart|good counterpart]].

* Ms. Marvel is a distaff of [[Captain Mar-Vell]].

* On the subject of distaff counterparts with a more concealing costume: Bombshell to [[Captain Atom]]. Bombshell wears a t-shirt and trousers, while Captain Atom is effectively naked.

* So you know [[Deadpool]]? There's also a female Deadpool in another universe. Named Wanda Wilson, her official name in her timeline is Deadpool as well. But she's also called Lady Deadpool, in the same way that "Zombie Deadpool's Head" is called Headpool.

** In a recent issue, Deadpool was being coerced into joining a team of Canadian superheroes. First came the hockey-themed Puckman. Then, there was... [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Ms. Puckman]].

* [[Strontium Dog]] -> Strontium Bitch.

* From [[The Beano]], ''[[Dennis the Menace UK|Dennis The Menace]]'' -> Minnie The Minx.

* Gamma Corps Black is a trio of Distaff Counterparts to Hulk villains. Aberration (Female Abomination), Axon (Female Zzazz) and Morass (Female Glob).

** That first one is a little redundant, since the Gamma Corps proper already has Mess, a female counterpart to the Abomination.

* ''[[Mandrake the Magician]]'' had [[Master of Disguise]] The Clay Camel. His modus operandi (perfect disguises and a namesake [[Calling Card]]) was later co-opted by The Brass Monkey... who turned out to be his daughter.

* The lead character of [[Cross Gen]]'s ''Sigil'' was a man called Samandahl Ray. Marvel's relaunch will star a girl named Samantha Ray.

* ''The Darkness'' universe has a triad of both Distaff and Spear Counterparts: The Darkness itself is a male entity in a male host and is diametrically opposed to the Angelus which is a female entity in a female host. In between the two is the ''Witchblade'', a male entity in a female host.

 

 

* [[The Lion King|Scar -- Zira]].

 

* ''[[The Karate Kid]]'' -- ''The Next Karate Kid'', featuring a then-unknown Hilary Swank.

* [[Terminator]] 3: The T-X or "Terminatrix" a female shaped terminator.

* ''[[Revenge of the Nerds]]'' -- ''[[The House Bunny]]''

* In ''[[Lethal Weapon]]'''s third installment, Lorna Cole is very much the female Riggs.

 

* ''[[Hardy Boys]]'' -- ''[[Nancy Drew]]''

* [[Conan the Barbarian]] -- [[Red Sonja]]

* Cora, Chick Carter's female cousin, aided Chick Carter and Nick Carter (Nick Carter adopted Chick).

* Pat Savage, cousin of [[Doc Savage]].

* ''Angie's First Case'' is about Angie Zane, the distaff to Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown, written by the same author. It didn't go over so well with readers.

* ''Jane Carver Of Waar'', an [[Affectionate Parody]] of ''[[John Carter of Mars]]'', with 21st century sensibilities.

 

* ''[[The Soup]]'' -- ''The Dish''

* ''[[The Six Million Dollar Man]]'' -- ''[[The Bionic Woman]]''

** In Germany it was even ''called'' ''[[The Bionic Woman|The Seven Million Dollar Woman]]''.

*** And in Mexico, the original series was even called "''El hombre biónico''" ("''The Bionic Man''").

* ''Queer Eye for the Straight Guy'' -- ''Queer Eye for the Straight Girl'' replaced five gay guys with three gay guys and a lesbian and a Straight Guy with a Straight Girl. On ''Straight Girl'', Robbie (aside from being adorable) would frequently model the women's clothing.

** Far more interesting was ''Straight Plan for the Gay Man''.

* A couple of years after ''[[The Greatest American Hero]]'' ended, there was an attempted revival in which cranky FBI agent Bill was paired up with a new "Greatest American Heroine" in the form of a chirpy, flakey, relentlessly optimistic young teacher with [[Eighties Hair]] who was something of a [[Genius Ditz]].

* ''[[Highlander the Series]]'' -- ''[[Highlander the Raven]]''

* ''[[Life On Mars]]'' -- ''[[Ashes to Ashes]]''

** ''Dragon Knight'' and ''Ryuki'' were actually beaten to the punch with Tackle of ''[[Kamen Rider Stronger]]'', though many sources go out of their way to explicitly say that Tackle wasn't a Kamen Rider, much to the displeasure of fans.

* ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]'' -- ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]''

** Spoofed/referenced in ''[[Entourage]]'', where Johnny Drama was a supporting character in a Hercules-esque show, which got completely overshadowed by its female-centric spinoff.

* Spoofed in ''[[Lois and Clark]]'', with Ultrawoman. No, ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'' is NOT ''Ultrawoman: The Series''.

** [[Hannah Montana]] also features a fictional version called "Indiana Joannie"

** ''[[Entourage]]'' has also been referred to as the male counterpart, with the martinis switched out for joints.

** Another example occurred in one episode where Peg watches a preview of "Psycho Mom", a female version of "Psycho Dad", Al's favorite TV show.

* ''[[Just Shoot Me]]'' had Finch meeting his distaff counterpart Betsy, which at first seems like an incredible coincidence. It turns out he stole her entire personality in college.

* [[Samurai Sentai Shinkenger]], the 2009/10 [[Super Sentai]] series, finally got around to the franchise's first-ever female Red Ranger, a distaff to team leader Takeru Shiba.

** Beaten to the punch in 2005 with ''[[Power Rangers SPD]]''. Giving us the first female Red Ranger in the entire history of either franchise, ironically given the masculine name of Charlie.

** She was about to do this herself. Probably the most mutual breakup of the series.

* ''[[Degrassi the Next Generation]]'' uses this trope a lot. Often as a quick way to [[Pair the Spares]]:

* ''[[The Young Ones]]'' -- ''Girls On Top'' (Not directly connected, but also starring ex-''[[Comic Strip Presents]]'' stars, and about four unlikeable stereotypes sharing a flat).

* "The Big Bang Theory": Sheldon = Amy Farrah Fowler

* ''[[Smallville]]'': [[Archnemesis Dad|Lionel Luthor]] -- [[Evil Matriarch|Genevieve Teague]]

 

* The Primettes were conceived by Motown Records founder Berry Gordy Jr. as the distaff counterpart to the Primes. The bands were later renamed the Supremes and the Temptations.

* The [[Tom Tom Club]] is the (more or less) distaff counterpart/side project of [[Talking Heads]].

** If we're talking about heavy metal tribute bands, let us not forget [[Les Yay|Lez Zeppelin]].

** Or Queen Diamond.

* The female alternative quartet Drain STH was very much this to Alice In Chains when they first debuted in 1993.

 

 

** Including some characters, mostly Superheroes, who don't need to be drawn as such because, as mentioned earlier in comics, they already have a Distaff or Spear (yes, it's done to female characters as well) Counterpart.

 

* [[Digimon]] was originally an attempt to get boys into the whole [[Tamagotchi]] craze. Debatably, it ended up being even more popular.

* M.U.S.C.L.E. -- C.U.T.I.E.

 

** Also, [[Mario Kart|Toadette]] to Toad.

** Nonsense, that's just a crossdressing cheese. But if we also add a beauty mark...

** The ad for one home video game rendition of Ms. Pac Man in the 1980s even had her singing, "Honey, don'tcha know / I'm more than Pac Man with a bow!"

* In ''[[Metal Slug]] 2'', two female soldiers joined up with Marco and Tarma from the first game - [[Meganekko|Fio]] and Eri. Aside from when Eri (and Tarma) were booted from the playable cast for ''Metal Slug 4'', they've remained in the series ever since. Their status as the female counterparts to the original duo is made explicit in ''Metal Slug 3'' - halfway through the final mission, the Mars People abduct your character, and their opposite-gender counterpart takes over for the rest of the level: Fio for Marco, Eri for Tarma, and vice versa in both cases.

** And to confirm, without a doubt, that each female is the counterpart of her respective male version, comes the fact that if there's a second player that is playing with the respective female counterpart during the Mars People abduction. The [[Ryu and Ken|other guy/chick]] will be the chosen replacement for your missing character.

* ''[[Hideo Kojima]]'' has a fondness for recycling alternate universe versions of characters he had created previously, almost like actors. During the development of ''[[Policenauts]]'', he had a minor role for Solid Snake of ''[[Metal Gear]]'' - until, to shake things up, Kojima decided to make him a woman. Enter Meryl Silverburgh. When she was reintroduced in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'', she was made into the niece ({{spoiler|actually daughter}}) of Colonel Campbell and underwent a little [[Divergent Character Evolution]].

** Being that, while they are both given as having psychic powers, Yuri mind controls, while Yuriko tosses things around with her mind, I don't really think this qualifies. Their personalities are also different.

** On the other hand Yuriko is slightly more powerful than Yuri, as they made a campaign focused on her which shows how powerful she really is. Plus can do all of Yuri's powers and more.

* Bayonetta is a female [[Devil May Cry|Dante]].

* The ''[[Elite Beat Agents]]''' female division, the Elite Beat Divas. Curiously, the Elite Beat Divas seems to be just three girls, while there are five of the agents (and their commander).

* It's not a straight example, but the ''[[X Wing Series|Rogue Squadron]]'' comics had Soontir Fel, best pilot in the Empire since Vader's death, part of an elite squadron, eventually getting shot with a Y-Wing's ion cannon, being captured, and switching sides to fly in Rogue Squadron. The first ''[[X Wing Series|Rogue Squadron]]'' game, the only one which didn't cling to the movies for characters and missions, had Kasan Moor, excellent pilot and rare female Imperial, part of an elite squadron, eventually getting shot with a Y-Wing's ion cannon, defecting, and switching sides to fly in Rogue Squadron. Her creator has said he was trying to make someone like Fel, and was a little sad to see that while Fel's role is always increasing, Kasan Moor lingers in the limbo of all [[Star Wars Expanded Universe|Star Wars EU characters]] introduced in video games, and has been used exactly once since. In another video game.

** There's always Lumine- No, wait. [[Viewer Gender Confusion|False alarm]].

* In ''[[Pokémon]]'':

** Humans:

*** Glalie ↔ Froslass (again, a female Glalie is possible)

*** Braviary ↔ Mandibuzz

* In the ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' franchise, we have Ingram and Viletta Pliskin who, in their original game ''Super Hero Operations'', started out as male and female versions of the same original player character. When their characters were later adapted into the ''[[Super Robot Wars Alpha]]'' series (and the subsequent ''[[Super Robot Wars Original Generation|OG]]'' series) Banpresto worked around this by changing Viletta's last name to "Vadim" and explaining that she was actually {{spoiler|a [[Gender Bender|gender-bend]] clone of Ingram.}}

** They start out, and remain for the respective campaigns that introduces them, a bit too different to be called distaff counterparts. Then they get a bit more things in common, and keep on picking similarities up over the course of the following campaigns and the expansions until this trope fits fairly well.

* The Protagonist of ''[[Persona 3]]'' has the Female Protagonist. She also has the male's Wild Card power.

* [[Dragon Age 2|Fenris]] -- [[Mass Effect 2|Jack]]

* Are we not mentioning the oft-mentioned resemblance between [[Tomb Raider|Lara Croft]] and Uncharted's Nathan Drake?

* [[Metroid|Samus Aran]] -- [[Halo|Master Chief]]

 

* ''[[Boy Meets Boy]]'' had an [http://boymeetsboy.keenspot.com/d/20020401.html April Fool's comic] which was basically this. Amusingly, the female counterparts in Girl Meets Girl appear to be [http://boymeetsboy.keenspot.com/d/20020403.html deeper thinkers] than their male originals.

 

* The eponymous character from ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' was ''[[What Could Have Been|going]]'' to have one of these, but the creators decided against it. She can be seen in the background of at least one cartoon, though.

* ''[[Girlchan in Paradise]]'' does this with maytag, a complete duplicate of Kenstar in appearance except obviously female (while still humorously poorly voiced by a man). Despite this, nobody except the viewer can make the appearance connection.

'''Kenstar:''' That would be why i said that. }}

 

* In ''[[Transformers Animated]]'', the essentially-immortal Starscream creates a squad of five clones which, as the female clone points out, are each based on an aspect of his personality: A suck-up, a coward, a pathological liar, an egomaniac, and the female clone. When Starscream asks her what part of him she's from, she simply states, [[You Do NOT Want to Know|"Don't ask."]]

* In "Dr. Quym, Medicine Woman", the ''[[Venture Brothers]]'' meet female counterparts of the main cast in the jungle, including a violent hulking female bodyguard and a pair of twin sleuths.

* We must not forget ''[[Alvin and The Chipmunks]]'', whose distaff counterparts are Brittany and the Chipettes. The male chipmunks already made the jump to [[Live Action Adaptation|live-action]] [[The Movie|movie]], so the Chipettes naturally will appear in ''[[Just for Pun|The Squeakuel]]'', as a product of a development that stemmed from the first movie's [[The Stinger|stinger]].

* The newest incarnation of ''Winnie the Pooh'' from Disney features a six-year-old, redhaired tomboy named Darby, instead of Christopher Robin, though he's still in it.

** The original spin-off was going to be He-Ro, an ancestor of He-Man, before eventually being dropped in favour of She-Ra. There was also talk of a He-Ro, son of He-Man, series in the mid 90s.

* Dial Tone's feminization in some newer ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' works.

* [[Danny Phantom]] has a female [[Cloning Blues|clone]] who is pretty much this (albeit a younger one).

* [[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command]] -- [[Atomic Betty]]

* Terrence and Phillip, the Canadian comedy duo in ''[[South Park]]'', have female counterparts in Katherine and Katie Queef whom they marry.

** Timmy was his own distaff, named Timantha, in an earlier episode.

* ''[[Time Squad]]'' introduced another time squad with Tuddrussel's ex-wife who is very smart and actually competent.

* ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' had an episode at a dance where Arnold showed up with his date who looked just like him only in a dress.

 

 

 

* Superhero comics as a genre have been referred to as a Spear Counterpart to [[Soap Operas]].

** Nah: that would be [[Professional Wrestling]].

* Power Boy is superficially a Spear Counterpart of [[Power Girl]]. He's actually a parody of all the unfortunate cliches of superheroine characterisation, by showing what they look like applied to a male character.

 

* ''[[Clueless]]'' -- ''[[Hitch]]''

 

 

* Celtic Thunder is the Spear Counterpart to the popular [[Celtic Woman]].

 

* [[Dykes to Watch Out For]]: The Indelible Alison Bechdel included a strip called "Guys to Watch Out For" which showed each character's Spear Counterpart. In particular, Mo is being inaugurated as president of the United States.

 

* [[Metroid|Samus Aran]] - [[Halo|Master Chief]].

* In-universe for ''[[Lunar]]'': Nall (''[[Lunar Silver Star Story Complete|Lunar: The Silver Star]]'') - Ruby ''([[Lunar 2 Eternal Blue Complete|Lunar: Eternal Blue]]'')

* [[Super Mario Galaxy 2|Lubba]] to [[Super Mario Galaxy|Rosalina]].

 

 

* [[Powerpuff Girls]] <=> Rowdy Ruff Boys

** There is a feminist villain who claims that all female super heroes are just female spin offs of their male counter parts.

* ''Dora the Explorer'' -- ''Go, Diego, Go!''

 

 

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