Cross Player: Difference between revisions

Whatever the reason, crossplayers are pretty common in modern [[MMORPG|MMORPGs]], and very few people see it as a big deal. It's also worth noting that crossplayers aren't exclusively men playing women; occasionally women play as male characters, the biggest reason is to be treated as [[One of the Boys]].

 

 

The term is also sometimes used to describe someone who plays a character of the opposite sex in a [[Tabletop RPG]].

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* {{spoiler|Tsukasa}} in [[.hack|.hack//sign]]. Not willingly either. Curiously, the voice-work of the series suggests that the game does come with voicefonts for adjusting one's voice.

* ''[[Welcome to The NHK]]'', where {{spoiler|Satou winds up falling in love with a girl he meets online who actually turns out to be his next-door neighbor who wants to convince him that he can't trust women on the internet.}}

* Pretty much the entire point of [http://beta.mangafox.com/manga/1_2_prince 1/2 Prince]; after getting teased about getting everything for free because she's a girl, the protagonist decides to play [[Bishonen|a boy.]]

** Shinbo Also crossplays and his Avatar looks like his cram school teacher

 

== [[Comics]] ==

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* One of the best visual gags in ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' involves a scene showing [[WoW]]. {{spoiler|Ted met Blah-Blah online while playing [[WoW]] and the scene cuts to two characters conversing. The hulking draenei vindicator saying "we should meet up sometime..." was the girl. Ted was the one playing the scantily-clad female human clothie.}}

* Mac does this in ''[[CSI: NY]]'' 'Down The Rabbit Hole', where Mac investigated the death of a Second Life cosplayer by going into the game with a female avatar (with help from Adam creating it, since Mac was clueless.)

 

** The Devs from [[Eve Online]] once published some statistics drawn from their account records indicating that both player sexes played characters of either sex equally on average, leading to roughly even character sex distribution. Since the playerbase is still predominately male, the chance that a male character is played by a guy is still quite a bit higher than a female character being played by a girl.

** [[Second Life]] reccently added a similar feature.

* In [[Vindictus]] the character classes are canonically single individuals, and so they're gender-locked. Anyone playing a DPSer ''will'' be a guy, and anyone playing a [[Red Mage|mage]] or tank ''will'' be a girl, (Lann, Evie and Fiona, respectively), regardless of real-life gender. Also, when the [[Archer]] and [[Mighty Glacier]] (Kai and Karok) are released, both of them will be guys.

* The MMO ''Metal Assault'' has "gender-locked" characters in which differ in size and statistics. The female characters have higher SP, MP, and speed thresholds, while the males have higher HP and balanced stats. You do the math.

* ''[[Gears of War]] 3'' has medals for playing as females in the multiplayer, which give XP bonuses and are required for [[One Hundred Percent Completion]].

*** Some players now did it on purpose when siding against Caesar's Legion.

 

** It may have been entirely by Miho's choice; it's implied that she and Largo were among the few players to discover and manipulate the hidden relationship values (although they did so in pretty much opposite ways).

*** Another reading is that Piro knew about the hidden values, and was even pretty adept at manipulating them, but [[Out-Gambitted|Miho was better]]. Even so, that relationship wound up being m0h's downfall, whether or not Miho planned it to happen.

** Dan's [[Author Avatar]] used to appear as a female anthro squirrel; he switched to male when Elliot was Genderbent.

* Dave, one of the secondary characters in ''[[Real Life Comics]]'', is at one point chided about his preference for playing female MMO characters. He responds that he would much rather spend an MMORPG's requisite hours looking at the [[Third Person Seductress|back half of a female avatar]] than a male one.

* Ian of ''[[Mac Hall]]'' and ''[[Three Panel Soul]]'' crossplays fairly often, most notably his [[World of Warcraft]] character Cherabim and (unwittingly) his [[Morrowind]] character Ren. Also Risu from ''[[City of Villains]]'' or APB. Matt's characters tend to be male, ''[http://machall.com/view.php?date=2006-08-28 buuuuuuuut...]''

* Both [[Cloudcuckoolander|Jim]] and [[Action Girl|Annie]] in ''[[Darths and Droids]]'' provide examples of this trope, playing Padme and Anakin, respectively in the game versions of the 2nd and 3rd movies of ''[[Star Wars]]''. Unsurprisingly, [[Hilarity Ensues]] quite often. Ben's little sister Sally tends to play male characters (she takes over whoever the GM needs her to for a given scene) and Pete plays [[R 2 D 2]], whose "gender" is really a matter of pronouns.

* [[Equestria Chronicles]] naturally has this becuase, well, it's based off a ''girl's'' show and most of the players are ''guys.''

* Youtube [[Let's Play|Let's Player]] [[Naka Teleeli]] is known for playing female characters most of the time when he's given a choice in the games that he plays.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

** It's common enough that MMORPG has been humorously Backronymed to "Many Men Online, Role-Playing Girls"

** A common explanation is "If you're gonna spend hours watching someone's ass while they're running around, you might as well make it an ass you ''want'' to stare at for hours."

** A new trend in the genre is tying the player characters more closely to the storyline by having them be ''specific individuals'' with pre-written backgrounds and [[Canon]] personalities. Naturally, this locks their gender as well.

* Quite common on [http://forum.gateworld.net/forumdisplay.php?f=49 Stargate: Aftermath]. Most of us play multiple characters and a lot have characters of both sexes. Particularly glaring example is SG-6, a team of three men and one woman. All played by women.

** ''Gold Slam'', a Korean- (and for a brief time, American-) produced tennis game had the same idea with only 5 tennis players with their own distinctive looks and biographies to choose from. Want to [[Unskilled but Strong|stay at the baseline and hit the ball really hard?]] You'll have to be a male character. Want to be [[Weak but Skilled|unpredictable and quick on your feet?]] It's a female character for you.

* Some appointed that on average, 40% of the players of either sex Crossplay.

* Nico Nico Douga musician Tissue-Hime often dresses up as Yuki Nagato.....to the point where people actually refuse to believe that he's a guy, not a girl.