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So you've got the plot all finished, the [[McGuffin]] is located, and all of the loose ends are nicely tied. Time to finally reverse that pesky [[Gender Bender]] you've been laboring under since the beginning of this story arc. Piece of Cake. This is fiction, after all. Aren't [[Green Rock|green rocks]], [[Applied Phlebotinum]], and [[A Wizard Did It|magic]] all abound? All you need do is hunt down [[Those Two Guys]] with the [[Transformation Ray]], jump into that magic spring, or run down to [[The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday]] for one of their [[Gender Bender]] specials. How hard can it be?
Oh, wait
Sorry, sister. Looks like you're out of luck.
Not only are male-to-female [[Gender Bender
There are many reasons for this, many involving [[Unfortunate Implications]] and the [[Double Standard]]. And it's not always due to a breakdown of the gender-bending [[Applied Phlebotinum]], either. Perhaps they just couldn't help falling in love with their best friend after they [[Jumping the Gender Barrier|Jumped The Gender Barrier]]. Or maybe they became a [[Mama Bear]] after their [[Kid From the Future]] turned up and forced them to embrace their inner Mommy. Maybe they're the only ones who can protect the earth with their [[Super Gender Bender|gender-based superpowers.]] Or perhaps, since they ''were'' men, they're just that much more deserving of a gender equality [[Aesop]] than their [[Women Are Wiser|wiser]] [[Distaff Counterpart
Female-to-male [[Gender Bender
The First Law is often justified by the [[Status Quo Is God]] principle. After all, what [[Gender Bender]] based [[Fish Out of Water]] plot could possibly survive long after it has been stripped of its central premise, or explore [[Different for Girls]] when it no longer applies? By the same token, most aversions are ''also'' justified by [[Status Quo Is God]]. If a work's ''not'' primarily about [[Gender Bender]] issues, expect the situation to be [[Reset Button|reversed by the end of the story]], probably with a [[Snap Back]] and an [[Aesop]] about "how the other half lives." Or to put it another way, if the work is a webcomic called ''The Amazing Girl-Boy's Adventures in Femininity'', expect the First Law to be enforced. If it's an episode of a [[Kid Com]] called ''Homeroom Genie'' where the [[Jackass Genie]] turns Zach into Zoe to teach him a lesson? Not so much.
Before you ask, there is indeed a [[Second Law of Gender Bending]], and even a [[Third Law of Gender Bending]]. They may or may not overlap with the First Law. Originally known as "Mandy's Law of Anime Gender Bending" after the person (outside the Wiki) who first proposed it.
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== [[Anime]] ==▼
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Ranma
** Once Ranma acquires his gender-changing [[Curse]], no attempt at curing it works, at least not permanently. Further, many fans have observed that he seems to attract water (which triggers the change) as easily as fiancées and rivals. However, attempts by other characters at making Ranma permanently female ''also'' fail, so this may be less the Law than [[Status Quo Is God]], a common trope in author [[Rumiko Takahashi]]'s works.
** The "rules" of Ranma's curse are biased in favor of the Law. "Cold" water will turn Ranma into a girl, but pretty much any temperature below body temperature will suffice. Turning back into a boy requires genuinely ''hot'' water. Simply warm water won't do it, so she is usually limited to two options: taking a hot bath or obtaining a kettle of just-boiled water, which Akane seems to supply quite often.
* Megumi in ''[[Tenshi
* Mizuho in ''[[Otome wa Boku
** The manga shows his face in his 'male' persona, and he still IS cute.
* Likewise ''[[Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl]]'' randomly obscures its lead's face until he becomes female, even though he's described as 'girly' to begin with and looks virtually identical. The lead also remains a girl, even though [[Girls Love|(or perhaps because)]] two other girls fell in love with her.
** It's strongly implied that "he" was transgendered all along without realizing it, and that was the reason behind the Gender Bender in the first place. Hell, she even had the same female voice actor during the male phase.
** The aliens specifically stated that the transformation was irreversible.
* Inversion: Sailor Starlights from ''[[Sailor Moon]]''. They spend significantly more screen time in male identities, to various degrees, with the handwaving that this makes their act of posing as pop idol singers looking for a lost love more convincing. Of course, the show is [[Shojo|aimed at girls]]...
* Exception: Makoto in ''[[El
* [[White
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'''Guilt-Na:''' ''"You're not going to change me back, are you?!"'' }}
* ''Gacha Gacha Secret'' has a more understandable case, as the guy is turned into a girl whenever he sneezes, but never ''even tried'' to cure it; he just used his girl-form to [[Gender Bender Friendship|make friends with the girl he likes to get to know her better]]. In the end {{spoiler|however, it's played straight, as the people that were hired to change him back screwed up because he tried to leave half-way through the treatment so the girl wouldn't lose her friend. This ends up not curing him of the changing, but ''did'' cure the condition that would have killed him if he changed too much}}.
* Inverted in ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'': the club members conspire to conceal Haruhi's true gender as soon as it's revealed.
* The fake Mashiro in the ''[[Mai-Otome (
* Played with in ''Happiness!'', where [[Wholesome Crossdresser|Jun]] is turned into a girl. He's [[Gainaxing|virtually]] identical looking anyway, and it only causes lots of magic-related difficulties before he decides to turn back. This might be a simple [[Shout
* Seen progressively in ''[[You're Under Arrest]]''. In the original season, Aoi is originally discovered to wear falsies and the animators make a point to be careful about what outfits they put her in. In later ones, Aoi wears virtually anything the standard girls can wear; we only get the fact dropped in the season premieres, and the requisite [[Once an Episode|Once A Season]] episode starring him.
* Played straight in ''[[Pretty Face]]''. After regaining his original face Randou learns from {{spoiler|the real Yuna}} that he'll need to continue posing as Rina's twin for another year, only to be told by Doctor Manabe that if he had another face-changing surgery he'd be stuck with a girl's face for the rest of his life. [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]] says he'll go along with it. {{spoiler|Then the doc pulls off the mask Randou didn't even realize he was wearing, revealing that he actually still had Rina's face. It was a test set by Yuna to see if he was really worthy of Rina. The doctor couldn't bring himself to return Randou to his original appearance in the first place, and instead glued a mask of his original appearance to his face, and continually re-glued it while Randou was sleeping.}} So, in the long run he ends up spending more time with the eponymous pretty face.
** Though {{spoiler|he now has the ability to glue the mask back onto his face if he wants to spend time as a guy again}}.
* ''[[Space Pirate Mito]]'' Poor {{spoiler|Aoi.}}
* Manga example: Mashiro Ichijo of ''[[After School Nightmare]]'' was born male above the waist and female below. Mashiro starts out identifying as a male but struggles with his femininity. {{spoiler|Towards the end of the series he accepts his femininity and chooses to be female. The series ends with the revealation that Mashiro's male and female "halves" were actually a pair of [[Half
* Averted in ''[[Shugo Chara]]'', mostly because {{spoiler|[[Wholesome Crossdresser|Nagihiko]] is hiding from Amu that he and Nadeshiko are actually the same person}}.
* In ''[[Birdy the Mighty]]'', Tsutomu is accidentally killed and has to share Birdy's body, although it can change appearance between the two of them. The [[Alternate Continuity|Decode remake]] takes it a step farther, when at the end of the first series he gets his own body back, it is destroyed almost immediately.
* ''[[Kämpfer
* Played straight on ''[[Vandread]]'' with {{spoiler|Nirvana sub-commander BC, aka Tenmei Uragasumi, Commander of the Taraak Intelligence.}}
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In ''[[Knights of the Dinner Table]]'', the gaming group is forced by their female fellow player-turned-DM to play as characters opposite their normal gender, causing a great gnashing of teeth by the conservatively oriented, hack-and-slash males of the group. When they finally begin playing, most of the players begin "rolling johns" and otherwise using their new gender as a tool for their usual larceny. However, Bob starts to have a deep affection for his character, to the point of preening his character figure. When the group comes across an artifact that would allow gender reversal, everyone leaps on the chance to have their characters switched to males, except for Bob, who states that he would like to have his character remain female. {{spoiler|Within a few panels Sarah kills the character off and later admits to the rest of the gang she did it only because he was starting to creep even her out.}}
* ''Mantra'', the title character of the Malibu ''[[The Ultraverse|Ultraverse]]'' comic, was warrior knight Lukasz, reincarnated in the body of a woman for the first time after centuries of reincarnating into male bodies.
* [[Marvel Comics]]' shapeshifter character Courier took on a female form during a time travel adventure with Gambit, as part of a ruse to investigate Mister Sinister (then acting as an obstetrician.) Sinister learned that his patient was a shapeshifter, and managed to extract that ability for his own use. Sinister (not knowing Courier's true sex) inadvertently left Courier permanently female as a side effect of this process.
* Mister Sinister himself became subject to the First Law later. After trying to bodyswap with Professor Xavier unsuccessfully, the only available body was a female clone of himself. "Miss" Sinister has since had a fling with Wolverine's son Daken, and is [[Attractive Bent Gender|disturbingly attractive]] considering her origin. However, this character doesn't share Mister Sinister's memories, so it's debatable whether she is "really" him.
* ''[[Alpha Flight]]'' demonstrates that while The First Law is powerful, it can't withstand the power of [[Status Quo Is God]]. Near the end of John Byrne's run, the body of Walter Langkowski (aka Sasquatch) was destroyed. Under new writer Bill Mantlo, his spirit eventually ended up merging with the body of the shapeshifter Snowbird, who died while in the form of a white-furred Sasquatch. Walter soon discovered that Sasquatch's new "human" form was, like Snowbird, female, and she lived for several years as ''Wanda'' Langkowski. Wanda's sex change was only one of several major changes to the Byrne-era status quo, most of which were reverted when he was off the book, and Sasquatch regained both his manhood and his original orange fur.
* ''[[Shade the Changing Man]]'' had to take over the body of a drowning woman in order to stay alive himself. Overnight, it reverted to female form and could not be changed back until he found the person responsible for the woman's death. Even after solving that mystery, his female features would re-emerge from time to time until he abandoned the body to fight death on it's own terrain.
* In the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' pseudo-crossover fic ''[[Xendra]]'', this trope hits Xander with a ''vengeance''. First he's transformed into [[Xena: Warrior Princess]] on That Halloween. Then a spell performed to ''find'' the Halloween Xena lookalike briefly turns him into a teenaged Xena. Then Drusilla uses a stored spell to turn him into teen!Xena ''again''. While that's undone a few months later, Amy and Willow -- trying to learn how to store a spell in a crystal as Drusilla had used -- find their only success is with yet another instance of the spell to turn him into Xena, which leads to multiple transformations (which Willow or Amy can undo afterward). It eventually reaches a point where any time the Scoobies need an untraceable female or an extra near-slayer-level fighter, Xander's gender gets toggled. And after {{spoiler|Faith, under the influence of mind-altering magic, rapes a semiconscious Xander in both forms, Xander has to go to therapy as Xendra}} twice a week. Eventually the magical principle called the Law of Precedent (the more a particular magic has been performed, the easier it becomes to perform) takes over, and it seems that ''any'' sufficiently strong magic in Xander's vicinity will turn him into Xendra.
** Initially averted with Andrew, who was turned into a teenaged [[Star Wars|Princess Leia]], and wanted desperately to be turned ''back'' into a girl because the experience led him to acknowledge that he's [[transgender]]. However, he gets permanently transformed as part of undoing Xander's initial stint as Xendra.
** After getting caught in one of Xander's transformations, Wesley Windham-Price finds that ''he'' too is affected by the Law of Precedent and is prone to turning into "Leslie Linda Price". And when he gets involved with Tara Maclay -- a lesbian who is frightened by his male aspect -- he chooses to spend all his time with her as a woman. At the end of the story he chooses to be a woman full time, and lets his male identity "die".
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Goodbye Charlie]]'': a male chauvinist lady killer is killed by his latest conquest's husband, and returns as Debbie Reynolds.
* ''[[Switch (
== [[Literature]] ==
* In [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s ''[[Heralds of Valdemar|Vows and Honor]]'' series, the sorceress Kethry puts a rapist under a visual (and tactile) illusion of a woman's body and sends him back to his rapist buddies. Later, a demon puts an end to this
* [[Jack Chalker]] (of course) lampshaded this trope even before it was a trope in ''[[Downtiming the Night Side]]''. Once the timestream finds a niche for a nightsider, they become that sort of person in whatever time they leap to. (In the hero's case, a prostitute.) Also shows up in the ''[[River of Dancing Gods]]'' series.
* [[Jack Chalker]] also wrote ''[[The Identity Matrix]]'', in which various characters end up wearing each other's bodies. The narrator, a man, finds himself first occupying the body of an Amerindian girl, then occupying the body of a Canadian college student. Since the authorities can't return him to his original body they decide to rewrite his memory to turn him into a stripper and a prostitute. [[It Makes Sense in Context]].
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* In [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[I Will Fear No Evil]]'', the rich old cotter protagonist pays to have his brain implanted into a fresh young body in order to cheat death. The first matching donor to come up is a woman. When he comes to after the surgery, he thinks about this a bit and decides it's worth it to see how the other half lives. Seeing as how his surviving the first transplant was a miracle, his situation is pretty permanent.
* [[Enforced]] and [[Played for Drama]] in Judith Tarr's ''A Fall of Princes'': The two male characters are [[Ho Yay|more than half in love already]], the best solution for solving the conflict between their nations is a [[Perfectly Arranged Marriage]], same-sex marriage is not an option, and the required magic ritual is explicitly irreversible. {{spoiler|Hello, Sevayin.}}
* Played straight and justified with a {{spoiler|female-to-male}} [[Gender Bender]] in S.L. Viehl's ''Dream Called Time'': While {{spoiler|Duncan}} seemed to be [[If
* This is the premise behind the ''[[Toku]]'' series ''[[Seishoujo Senshi Saint Valkyrie]]'', as well as the webcomic that it appears to copy, ''[[
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
▲* This is the premise behind the ''[[Toku]]'' series ''[[Seishoujo Senshi Saint Valkyrie]]'', as well as the webcomic that it appears to copy, ''[[Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki (Webcomic)|Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki]]''. (See ''[http://www.sgvy.com/blog/2007_04_01_archive.html this SGVY blog post]'' for a discussion and video.)
* ''[[La Lola]]'' is a telenovela that originated in Argentina, and has been adapted in many other markets. Most of them deal with this trope:
** In the Argentinian and Spanish versions, Lalo tracks down the witch who turned him into a woman, and she agrees to turn him back (after laughing for a while). They hold hands, she starts her mystic chanting... and promptly falls backward, dead.
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* In the ''[[Wingin It]]'' episode "I, Carlie", Angel-in-Training (AIT) Denise agrees that Carl, now Carlie, has learned her lesson, and agrees to turn her back into Carl, but finds she can't. The AIT handbook explains that he cannot go back to being a boy until he truly understands girls.
* ''[[Goodbye Charlie]]'', a sitcom adaptation of the movie of the same name (which was itself based on a play) starring Suzanne Somers as 'Charlie'.
* Subverted in ''[[Degrassi]]'' when Adam, an FtM [[
* Averted in ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]'' -Max spends a few episodes as Maxine, but returns to normal eventually.
== [[Theater]] ==
* The movie and television versions of ''[[Goodbye Charlie]]'' were both based on the 1959-1960 play of the same name. With ''Lauren Bacall'' as Charlie.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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** To clarify for those who aren't entirely familiar with the game: most of the playable characters can Unite with Shamans (essentially merging with them) to receive stat bonuses and, with specific combinations, a significant change in appearances and powers. Also note that {{spoiler|Spar is a plant}} and has an effeminate, asexual appearance normally.
*** Considering that {{spoiler|Spar}}'s two other combination forms are an onion with feet (I kid you not) and a plant-like dragon he may be a she to begin with.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[
** Becoming a woman is a possible effect of a scroll mishap in D&D 3.0, so s/he may have found an actual lich-turning scroll and just messed up during the casting. Also, a possible effect of wild magic. For that matter, in canon Elminster was indeed given a spell that does this (though it's not clear whether caster-only or not)…
* Averted in
* ''[[Might and Magic|Might & Magic 2]]'' has two magical fountains that change a party member's gender, one of them male-to-female and the other the opposite; the male-to-female one only hints as to what it does (it is labeled "eraweb selam") and also warns that should a party member use it, it will be completely irreversible. {{spoiler|[[Subverted Trope|This is not true]] - to reverse the process, you simply have to find and use the other fountain.}}
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Misfile]]'', as shown in the trope image. Not only does Ash seem to have a better life as a girl, nearly everyone he and the angels have come in contact with since the misfile seem to have had their lives improved in some way. Which hasn't stopped him from wanting his male body back, but as things stand, it's going to be a looooong time before that happens.
* ''[[Sailor Sun]]''. Despite [[Transformation Ray
* ''[[The Wotch]]'': how much Anne loves to turn her male friends into girls is [[Lampshaded]] frequently but the tendency seems to extend to ''everyone'' with the appropriate powers. Over the course of the strip many, many characters get their gender bent but it's only the formerly male ones who fail to get restored. (Even the [[Straw Feminist|straw feminists]] of D.O.L.L.Y., who arguably earned kharmic punishment, get turned back into girls in the end.) The strip seems to delight in finding reasons why former men can't or shouldn't be turned back, even though given Anne's powers and general benevolence it ought to be easy. There's even a spin-off ([[Cheer|The Wotch: Cheer!]]) comic about four of its permanently genderbent characters.
** Also, in the years before the DOLLY arc, though, as stated, male-to-female changes were constant and many were permanent, female-to-male changes ''never'' happened except for an oft-bodyswapped couple. One time we ''thought'' Anne and Miranda had become boys, but it turns out Wotches cannot be male and so Anne and Miranda are immune to genderbending.
** Lord Sykos shows up and goes on a gender-changing spree across town, happily encouraged by his first victim "Aimee". At the end of the story arc he turns all his victims back to normal ''except'' Aimee who decides she prefers being Sykos' [[Perky Female Minion]] to her former existence. As we don't get to see much of "his" life before the transformation we're given no real motivation for this decision.
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** Also, much later, a "seyunolu" ([[Half
** Moving on from Elliot being a ''double'' victim of this, we get to Tedd. Who probably wouldn't know this was a law: the 'circumstances' usually equate to
* ''[[Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki]]''. (See also ''Seishoujo Senshi Saint Valkyrie'', above.) goes the gender-based superpowers route.
* ''[http://www.abstractgender.com Abstract Gender]'' - The guy who has no problems gender changing can change back and forth at will, the guy who hates it is stuck permanently.
* ''[
* In ''[http://www.discordiacomic.com Discordia]'', it's [[Magic
* Defied in [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0249.html this] ''[[The Order of the Stick
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'''Roy''': What? What kind of a dumb question is that?? Look, I'll admit it wasn't as bad as I'd feared. I wasn't any weaker or anything. I did have trouble keeping my emotions under control, but I think that was because I'm not used to the hormones. But come on. I was born a man, there's no reason I would want to stay a woman. }}
* ''[[Narbonic]]'' examples:
** Averted in the Gender Swap storyline, Helen spends a full week of strips male before Dave is turned into a woman, and they switch back simultaneously.
** But once that can of worms was opened, they never could close it again. Dave may not remain a woman permanently, but they transform on many occasions, particularly {{spoiler|1=after Helen and Dave fall in love and start having sex a lot. Now ''think'' about that for a [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic/series.php?view=archive&chapter=10333 moment]}}. It is treated less as a plot point and more as a "thing mad scientists do", along with drugging the coffee and breeding super-gerbils. Also, {{spoiler|Dave gives birth to their child}}. He's even aware beforehand that it's how things will likely come to pass, given that Helen's a mad scientist.
* ''[[Jayden And Crusader]]'' referenced, and subverted, this trope twice, and eventually did [https://web.archive.org/web/20120101035508/http://www.jaydenandcrusader.com/2008/06/19/yes-maam/ swap the gender] of its most masculine character. However, that was reversed moments afterwards thanks to his excedingly violent nature. As the entire event was designed for the [https://web.archive.org/web/20141117044221/http://www.jaydenandcrusader.com/2007/08/08/2007-08-08/ purpose of gaining readers] the trope has only ever been jokingly entertained.
* The initial arc of ''[[The Dragon Doctors]]'' tells how all five doctors - four male and one female - are transformed in an ultra-permanent way. When they've all gotten used to it, the one woman is suddenly turned back in an accident that can't be duplicated for want of a rare and powerful bit of [[Phlebotinum]], leaving all five female - Goro, the one most bothered at first, stated an unwillingness to turn back even if it became an option.
* In ''[[DDG]]'' Netta seems to enjoy keeping Zip a girl far too much to let him ever change back.
* In ''[[MSF High]]'', Nurse Keiri seems to have made it her mission to warp the gender ratio as much as possible. Everyone who gets more than bandages from her leaves female. At the end of the day, anyone who's been transformed in any way can change back totally or keep all aspects of the new form, forever; with this in mind, she also tends to give incentives ''not'' to change back. There's nothing to stop people who have been changed from being changed again, but (other than the daily [[Reset Button]]) female-to-male is rare, and <s>never seen in the comic</s> seen once so far and will probably be reversed, where so far at least three significant characters (Urk, Collete, and Victoria) have gone through this progression and are now female for good.
** Also, the Legion are a fairly benign version of [[The Virus]]; the victims, who seem to have been mostly male, keep most of their personality, but become unquestioningly loyal literal [[Green
** Note that Legion [[T Fs]] are only irreversible outside of [[MSF High]] because of the lack of transformation magic in Mahou Galaxy. Tends to be all over the place in the Forum RP, as well.
* In the first comic of ''[[I Dream of a Jeanie Bottle]]'', the main character Jean is turned into a female genie that looks very similar to Barbara Eden from the TV show. While Jean (aka Jeanie) attempts to understand her new powers, she has yet to [[Failure Is the Only Option|find a way to turn herself back into a male.]]
* A running thread in ''[[Slipshine]]'''s ''[[Momo Impact]]'' is the queen of a [[Planet of Hats|planet of lesbians]] - any male of any species that gets within a few centimeters of her instantly and irreversibly becomes a beautiful humanoid woman.
** Also, in ''[[The Key to Her Heart]]'', a [[Gender Bender]], who ''had'' been distinctly male, falls in love with a lesbian, leading to him spending nearly all his camera time female.
* In ''[[Exiern]]'', the main character is a barbarian warrior who gets turned into a woman. All his attempts to get turned back to his original gender fail or backfire. At one point, the clerics who were attempting to undo the spell end up turned into women themselves.
** Surprisingly, the latter part turns into an aversion of the trope. The clerics perform a reversal spell, and it works... for all of them except the one who obviously loved being a girl, and she obviously refused to reverse her own gender. Though one of the clerics that became male again, turned female again after sneezing. Probably implying that their return to manhood is short-lived
*** It does not look good for Tiffany, the results of [http://www.exiern.com/?p=1020 of consulting a magic encyclopaedia] about a cure is just 3 pages of mocking laughter, ''in text''.
* In the ''[[Jet Dream (
* In the photographic novel, ''[http://www.rockpapercynic.com/littleworlds/ Little Worlds]'', the part of Lev (a male character) is played by a female actor, leading to questions about Lev's gender identity.
* When [[Lovable Sex Maniac|Blair]] runs amok with the [[Greek Mythology|Tiresias]] [[Artifact of Doom|Orb]] in ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'', the only major male character affected is outside getting an unconscious boy some fresh air when the orb is destroyed, unleashing a [[World
* In the webcomic ''Ballerina Mafia'', a character's friends give him an [[Easy Sex Change]] in his sleep as an April Fool's day prank. He decides to just start living life as a girl now, and was more annoyed than anything by it at first; ultimately, when she's given the chance to change back with no strings attached, she declines.
== Web Original ==
* [[Whateley Universe|Whateley]]. Just Whateley. If someone is turned into a girl and used to be a guy, no force on ''Earth'' can fix
** ''Heavily'' subverted in the character of Jade. She has trouble finding a way to transform herself ''in the first place''! {{spoiler|And once she does, failure is the only option... until she resorts to 'traditional' means. Professional surgery that works!}}
** Even appears to be occurring to Phase, who is resisting with all his might the other two. However, it's not certain that it will end up like this, as Phase is still looking through 'outs'.
* ''[[
* Two of the first main characters on [[The Trading Post]] were hit with this with different results. {{spoiler|Not long after becoming Ashlyn, Jake realized she would not be getting her original body back. Arthur/Liz, on the other hand, thought she was, only to transform into Penelope instead.}} There have been a couple notable aversions, including {{spoiler|Todd and Bryan.}}
* In the ''[[Paradise]]'' setting, humans are randomly, permanently changed into [[Funny Animal
* Very common on ''[[Literotica]]'' when a sex change is involved.
* Expect the vast majority of stories on sites specializing in [[Gender Bender]] and/or [[
* ''[[Spells 'R' Us]]'' stories typically involve the purchase of items that change a person's sex from the shop's wizard proprietor. Invariably, the change ends up being a permanent one, because SRU is [[The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday]].
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** Earlier though, when the group asked the alien who reversed their genders to fix things, he's ready to go along with it...except [[General Failure|Zapp Brannigan]] chooses that moment to leap in and melt the alien into a puddle, trapping everyone in their swapped genders until the alien's friend comes at the end of the episode to make things right.
* Subverted in ''[[South Park]]''. During the premier of season 9 Mr. Garrison had a sex change to become a woman, and he stayed that way for ''three years'', at least until season 12 rolled around, when he/she got ''another'' sex change to become a man once again.
* Subverted in ''Fairly Odd Parents'', where Timmy gets turned into a girl for one episode (and Cosmo and Wanda also switch genders), and everyone gets changed back at the end.
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