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A lot of comedy comes from switching around expectations. This trope is about a specific kind, where roles are reversed. But unlike [[Freaky Friday Flip]], [[Prince and Pauper]], and [[Swapped Roles]], no explanation or justification is given, and it's as though this situation was always this way. The comedy is more about the absurdity of it all, than what happens to the characters.

 

[[Super-Trope]] of [[Gender Flip]].

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* A ''[[Judge Dredd]]'' story centred around an athlete who garnered massive controversy and criticism by doing well despite no pharmaceutical or bionic enhancements.

* Pretty much any [[Silver Age]] ''[[Superman]]'' story set in Bizarro-World is all over this trope.

 

* ''[[Little Man Tate]]'' contrasts the titular Tate, a very mature child, with his childlike, immature mother.

* The film ''[[White Man's Burden]]'' is a dramatic example; it takes place in a world where the majority/minority status of white and black people are reversed.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* "Disobedience", by [[A. A. Milne]], is about a three-year-old boy whose mother wanders away from his supervision and gets lost.

* In ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'', there is a poem about five Golgafrincham princes who, amongst other things, 'rescue beautiful monsters from ravening princesses'.

 

* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'':

** The sketch 'Northern Playwright' featuring father behaving like a stereotypical worker and his no less stereotypical yuppie son. It turns out that father is in fact a famous playwright and the son is a ordinary coal miner. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPSzPGrazPo&feature=channel_page Just watch it here.]

* Used on the ''[[Martin Molloy]]'' radio show. After a news story about two pensioners who were arrested after an argument over a poker machine turned into a violent punch up, Mick Molloy launched into a spiel about how old people today had no respect for authority and how teenagers were sitting at home at night, too scared to go out because of the gangs of old people roaming the streets, and how what old people needed was another dose of national service.

 

* [[Stewart Lee]] "Later on I'll be explaining how my tragic and ultimately fatal heroin addiction helped me overcome my previous dependence on Born Again Christianity."

* Towards the end of his one-man show, ''[[Norman Rockwell]] Is Bleeding'', [[Christopher Titus]] imagines what would've happened if his mother's mental institution had had an open mike night:

{{quote|''My mom would be up here, and you'd be reading about me as her crack-addicted son. A man can dream, can't he?''}}

 

* This occurs between two minor NPCs in ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]''. The player first meets the father who complains that he lost his son and his son told him that he should always stay in one place if they get separated, while the son is nearby complaining about his father getting lost. When father and son meet up the son chastises the father for not staying in one place as he was told. Considering the tiny number of NPCs and otherwise standard NPC dialogue in the game it's rather odd that they would bother to add this bit of characterization in an area where many gamers will miss it (one must explicitly intentionally backtrack to hear the final conversation between father and son).

 

* In ''[[Questionable Content]]'', Pintsize once created [[Hentai]] about [[All Anime Is Naughty Tentacles|schoolgirls raping the tentacle monsters]]. [http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1524 At least 18 volumes.]

 

 

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[[Category:Comedy Tropes]]

[[Category:In Another Man's Shoes]]