First Law of Gender Bending: Difference between revisions

* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', while not as casual or frequent about it as ''[[The Wotch]]'', certainly pays the Law its dues. According to the rules governing the comic's main sex-changing phlebotinum, only male-to-female sex changes can be made permanent (via [[Mister Seahorse|pregnancy]]); female-to-male sex changes, even of someone trapped by pregnancy (for whom it's only even possible afterwards), cannot exceed a 30 day time limit. The second time a boy - the ''main character'' - is turned into a girl the device breaks, leaving "her" stuck for the full thirty days, and the attempt to get around this leaves him with an [[Opposite Gender Clone]] ''and'' the permanent ability to change sex at will, something the rules of magic eventually ''force'' him to do on a regular basis.

** Also, much later, a "seyunolu" ([[Half-Human Hybrid|chimera]]) member of the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]], Vlad, is hit with a [[Transformation Ray]] and is turned female, but more importantly to him/her, ''human''. "She" has no desire to change back, and since [[Bizarre Alien Biology]] overrides the time limit (and, implicitly, gender identity), Vladia, as she is now called, is treated as a woman from then on.

* ''[[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.

* 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-Healing Wave]] on everyone ''inside'' the school. He's eventually changed back, but not before spending about two-fifths of the strip's run with his fate in the air, and only by inadvertently transferring it to another important boy, who likewise spends several chapters with his fate uncertain.

* 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.

 

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