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== Fairy Tales ==
* "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130718140423/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/hanselgretel/stories/molly.html Molly Whuppie]" is classified among the tales of the type "The Small ''Boy'' Defeats the Ogre", like "[https://web.archive.org/web/20131105173747/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/hopomythumb/index.html Hop O' My Thumb]".
* In "[https://web.archive.org/web/20140401211439/http://surlalunefairytales.com/hanselgretel/stories/rosetree.html The Rose Tree]", the [[Wicked Stepmother|stepchild]] is a girl, unlike most variants of this tale, such as "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130921113251/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/47junipertree.html The Juniper Tree]".
* "[http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch271.htm The Lord of Lorn and the False Steward]" features a hero in a tale normally told with a heroine, such as "[https://web.archive.org/web/20170618020621/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/goosegirl/index.html The Goose Girl]".
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* "[[Sleeping Beauty]]" and "[[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (novel)|Snow White]]" are the best known specimens of the common sleeping princess, but the sleeping prince is also known, as in the frame story of "[https://web.archive.org/web/20140322061754/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/pentamerone/1introduction1911.html The Pentamerone]".
* "[https://web.archive.org/web/20131017031044/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/twelvedancing/stories/katiecrackernuts.html Katie Crackernuts]" rescues a prince, in a reversal of the story of "[[The Twelve Dancing Princesses]]".
* The [[She Cleans Up Nicely]] plot of "[[Cinderella (novel)|Cinderella]]" and her sisters has a Gender Flip equivalent in "[https://web.archive.org/web/20131207045438/http://surlalunefairytales.com/bearskin/index.html Bearskin]", and such variants as "[https://web.archive.org/web/20140119234006/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/bearskin/stories/dongiovanni.html Don Giovanni de la Fortuna]", "[https://web.archive.org/web/20090319030931/http://www.gwu.edu/~folktale/GERM232/bearskin/web%20pages/SoldierandtheBadMan.html The Soldier and the Bad Man]", "[https://web.archive.org/web/20090319030926/http://www.gwu.edu/~folktale/GERM232/bearskin/web%20pages/RoadtoHell.html The Road to Hell]", "[https://web.archive.org/web/20140117195302/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/bearskin/stories/rewardkindness.html The Reward of Kindness]", [http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0361.html#sutermeister "The Devil As Partner" and "Never Wash"].
* Man/woman acquires a magical spouse, [[Forbidden Fruit|violates a prohibition]], and must go on [[The Quest]] to find the spouse again. The fairy tales classifed as "[https://web.archive.org/web/20131020042454/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/eastsunwestmoon/other.html The Search for the Lost Husband]" are as plentiful as those classified "[httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140402045936/http://surlalunefairytales.com/swanmaiden/other.html The Quest for a Lost Bride]", making it impossible to say which is the original and which the Gender Flip.
* The [[Child Ballad]] "[http://www.bartleby.com/243/76.html The Lord of Lorn and the False Steward]" and the [[Fairy Tale]] "[https://web.archive.org/web/20170618020621/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/goosegirl/index.html The Goose-Girl]" are GenderFlips of each other. Both feature protagonists who were overpowered by servants and promised never to tell of the crime in order to save their lives. The servants then took their place and made them work as menial servants until someone (the father of her intended bridegroom for "The Goose Girl"; the daughter of a local lord for "The Lord of Lorn and the False Steward") figured out how to get the tale without ([[Exact Words|technically]]) breaking the promise.
* In "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130824041617/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/stories/blackcow.html The Story of the Black Cow]", it is a stepson who is aided against his [[Wicked Stepmother]] by a magical cow; they run away together and the cow's magical aid lets him [[Rags to Royalty|make a royal match]].
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* The live-action adaptation of [[Disney Animated Canon|Disney's]] ''[[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|The Jungle Book]]'' gender-bends Bagheera - and Bagheera alone - so that s/he's a female for the duration of a movie. This is probably so that Mowgli can have a mother-figure without adding in <s>Akela</s> Mother Wolf, the she-wolf from the book, but it can be a little odd for a kid only familiar with the [[Disney]] version.
** Of course, it could simply have been that female animals are less willful (and ferocious) than their male counterparts, so using a female black leopard was both cheaper and less dangerous.
* Done in two recentmany versions of ''[[Treasure Island]]''. In ''Muppet Treasure Island'', Benwhich Gunnlacks isany changedfemale tocharacters Benjaminabesides GunnJim's justmom so(who [[Theisn't Muppets|Missin Piggy]]most can have a role to play. In ''[[Treasure Planet]]'',of the captain is a [[Catgirl|feline lady alien]] named Ameliastory).
** In the [[Missing Episode|1920]], 1938, and 1954 films Jim is a girl named Jim<ref>It's possible this one might actually be a case of [[Crosscast Role]], but it's impossible to tell due to what little survives of the film.</ref>, Jenny and Jamie (respectively). Given the rest of the cast are all 1700s professional sailors or gentry, Jim is only possible target without radically altering the setting. Jim is also voiced by women in various animated versions that portray him as younger than the book version, [[Cross-Dressing Voices|but that's another trope]].
** In ''Muppet Treasure Island'', Ben Gunn is changed to Benjamina Gunn just so [[The Muppets|Miss Piggy]] can have a role to play.
** In ''[[Treasure Planet]]'', the captain is a [[Catgirl|feline lady alien]] named Amelia.
* The famous duet of seduction "Baby, It's Cold Outside" was first introduced in the movie ''Neptune's Daughter'' by Esther Williams and Ricardo Montalban. She plays "The Mouse" and he plays "The Wolf," as you would expect. But the song is soon reprised by Betty Garrett and Red Skelton, and this time he's the one who's resisting and she's the one who's advancing.
** Again flipped in a version with [[Hellboy (film)|Selma Blair]] and [[The Office|Rainn Wilson]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hEJQbEYjRg Oh My!]
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* In ''[[The Muppet Wizard Of Oz]]'', Rizzo the Rat takes the role of the Queen of the Field Mice, which has been [[Composite Character|conflated]] with the Mayor of Munchkinland.
* The [[Cats (2019 film)|2019 production of ''Cats'']] cast Dame [[Judi Dench]] in the traditionally male role of Old Deuteronomy.
* The 2022 reboot of ''[[Hellraiser]]'' features a female version of Pinhead.
 
== Literature ==
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* [[Dragaera|The ''Khaavren Romances'']] are a fantasy [[Recycled in Space|recycling]] of the ''D'Artagnan Romances'' (''[[The Three Musketeers (novel)|The Three Musketeers]]'' and its sequels). The Porthos-equivalent, Tazendra, is female. This leads to interesting results, as the original is very much a [[Boisterous Bruiser]], a character-type almost always male, and applying these traits to Tazendra not only makes her a rare female example, but also results in her having some of the traits of [[The Ladette]].
* Trivigaunte, in ''The Book of the Long Sun,'' is essentially a parody of fundamentalist Islam, but with the genders reversed.
* Terry Pratchett is fond of genderswapped gags in his ''[[Discworld]]'' books.
** In ''[[Discworld/The Light Fantastic|The Light Fantastic]]'' Cohen the barbarian attempts to free the virgin girl sacrifice from the deadly druid priesthood. He goes through the priests like a chainsaw through butter, but Cohen is about 90 years old at this point, and his back goes out. He ends up fleeing the temple, slung over the shoulder of the virgin girl.
** In ''[[Discworld/Moving Pictures|Moving Pictures]]'', a film image of a woman is possessed by an [[Eldritch Abomination]], who transforms into a 50-foot monster. It immediately grabs up the Librarian (a male ape), and attempts to climb the 888-foot Tower of Art at Unseen University.
** In ''[[Discworld/Monstrous Regiment|Monstrous Regiment]]'' the whole point of the story is that the 'Male Only' military is really half female.
** ''[[Discworld/Equal Rites|Equal Rites]]'' has elements of ''[[Earthsea Trilogy|A Wizard Of Earthsea]]'', with Esk in Ged's role, and Granny Weatherwax as both the unnamed village witch and Ged's mentor Ogion.
** In ''[[Lords and Ladies]]'', it's a woman who [[Knight in Shining Armour|gets up in armour]] to save the [[Dude in Distress|captured prince]]. (This is partly a straight version of [[Tam Lin]] and Janet, but she didn't wear armour.)
** And then there's the non-Discworld story ''Once and Future'' where a time traveller stuck in the past ends up re-enacting the [[King Arthur]] legend ... except for that the king who pulls the sword from the stone happens to be a woman.
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* Marianne Wiggins' ''John Dollar,'' which reworks ''[[Lord of the Flies]]'' with a group of marooned girls. Believe it or not, [[It Gets Worse]].
* In [[Time Scout]], one of the theories floating around is that the Ripper Watch Team might be looking for ''Jill'' the Ripper.
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** The series as it released is gender flipped compared to [[What Could Have Been|the scenario originally planned]]: Saber herself was originally going to be a male character and servant of a [[Meganekko]] who was the basis of Rin.
** The PSP game ''[[Fate Extra]]'' has {{spoiler|a gender-flipped Francis Drake and ''Nero Caesar''}} as Rider and the red Saber, respectively.
** Think about what happened to [[Joan of Arc]]. Hundreds of years ''after'' the time of Arthur, when people were much more open-minded about women in positions of power. There is a handwave about her pretending to be a boy,{{verify}} but it's hard to believe anyone would be fooled.
*** Not really that hard to believe - the paintings are not accurate. Joan of Arc was what we would call these days a "Bull Dyke".{{verify}}
* Colonel Sebastian Moran and Henry Irving from the [[Sherlock Holmes]] cycle have both been genderflipped in ''[[Shikkoku no Sharnoth]]'', though for the former it's quite possibly that it is not her real name.
* The doujin soft game ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080116162616/http://www.download.com/3000-20-10536283.html Go! Magical Boy]'' is a [[Romance Game]] that switches the genders of the [[Magical Girl]] genre. {{spoiler|Well, mostly -- the player character looks like a girl to others when transformed and has to give up his powers to a legitimate girl in the end. So not the best game ever.}}
 
== Web Comics ==
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