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Distinguished from [[Crosscast Role]], in which the actor is the opposite sex of the character. 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.
'''Not to be confused with''' [[Gender Bender]] (though outside [[TV Tropes]], the terms are sometimes used interchangeably.) If a ''story'' involves a character changing sex [[In-Universe]], that's a [[Gender Bender]]. If a ''creator'' decides the character works better as the opposite sex, that's this trope. Also not to be confused with [[Gender
When a song gets this treatment in a [[Cover Version]], that's [[The Cover Changes the Gender]].
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* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' is, effectively, a Gender Flip of the typical [[Five-Man Band]] [[Sentai]] series.
** Similarly, [[Claymore]] is basically a Gender Flip of the typical Fighting [[Shounen]] series.
* ''[[
* A variant shows up in ''[[Gargoyle of the Yoshinagas]]''. When Gargoyle is transported to a mountain village, he meets a pair of siblings who resemble Futaba and Kazumi almost exactly. Since Futaba is a tomboy and Kazumi is very feminine, the gender flipped pair are more normal than their counterparts.
* ''[[Strike Witches]]'', which features gender flipped versions of real life WWII [[Ace Pilot]]s.
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* One of the playable characters of ''Otogi 2: Immortal Warriors'' is the cold and stoic [[Kung Fu Wizard|imperial sorceress]] Seimei, a major protagonist and spiritual guide who's based on the real-life man and legendary Japanese folk-figure Abe no Seimei.
* [[Choice of Games]]' ''Choice Of Broadsides'' game allows you to play an entire ''genre'' under Gender Flipped conditions: rather than force the protagonist to be male, the player has the option of changing the setting to being [[Wooden Ships and Iron Men|Wooden Ships and Iron]] '''Women'''. ''Choice of Romance'' is somewhat similar, but not quite as pronounced—the game culture is a bisexual one. The player's choice of character sex and sexual orientation determines the sex of his/her suitors, but the suitors' characters remain the same.
* In the original ''[[Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge]]'', when Guybrush calls the [[
* ''The Flower Shop: Summer in Fairbrook'' was a 2010 indie game about [[Simulation Game|gardening]] and [[Dating Sim|relationships]]. In fall 2011, it will be followed up with a reverse harem game called ''Winter in Fairbrook''.
* Abe no Seimei is a she in [[Otogi: Myth of Demons|Otogi 2.]] [[From Software]] must like this trope, because this is not the first game of theres where Seimei is a woman.
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* The ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]'' games have [[Louis Cypher]] as a recurring character. ''[[Strange Journey]]'' has Louisa Ferre instead.
** ''Strange Journey'' gets even stranger: everyone's favorite [[Gag Penis|penis demon]], Mara, is '''female''' for a change. Yes, she's ''still'' a penis.
* In the original version of [[
* Milk, the hero of the NES game ''Nuts & Milk'', was female in the earlier Japanese PC versions.
* The video game adaption of ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man]] 3'' has a Gender Flipped Dr. Stillwell.
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* The show ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' actually changed the character of Red Alert from [[Transformers Armada|The]] [[Transformers Energon|Unicron]] [[Transformers Cybertron|Trilogy]] from a male to a female for their own version of Red Alert. In fact, they originally wanted [[The Medic|Ratchet]] to be female and have Red Alert's name, but the final version of the show changed Ratchet back into a male, and made Red Alert a separate character.
* [[Sherlock Holmes in
* ''[[Adventure Time]] with Fionna and Cake'' does this to pretty much everyone, including the theme song singer.
* ''Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales For Every Child'' occasionally did this to the characters, along with changing the stories to be more multiracial than the typically European originals. For example the [[The Prince and the Pauper]] became "The Princess and the Pauper".
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