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* ''[[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.
== [[fan Works]] ==
* 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 (film)|Switch]]'': a male chauvinist lady killer is killed by his ex-lovers and returns as Ellen Barkin.
== [[Literature]] ==
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