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	A '''gender flip''' or '''gender swap''' is a technique in [[fiction]] in which characters are portrayed as a different [[gender]] from the one as which they were originally written.<ref name=":1">{{Citation \|last=Perkins \|first=Claire \|chapter=Ghost Girls: Ghostbusters, Popular Feminism and the Gender-Swap Reboot \|date=2020-09-15 \|title=Film Reboots \|pages=157–170 \|chapter-url=https://academic.oup.com/edinburgh-scholarship-online/book/37684/chapter/332013799 \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|publisher=[[Edinburgh University Press]] \|language=en \|doi=10.3366/edinburgh/9781474451369.003.0011 \|isbn=978-1-4744-5136-9\|chapter-url-access=subscription}}</ref> It is commonly used in film [[remake]]s or [[Reboot (fiction)\|reboots]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news \|last=Saner \|first=Emine \|date=2017-09-02 \|title=Lord of the Flies to Ocean's Eight: how Hollywood reboots are flipping gender \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/02/lord-of-the-flies-oceans-eight-hollywood-reboots-flipping-gender \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|work=[[The Guardian]] \|language=en-GB \|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>		A '''gender flip''' or '''gender swap''' is a technique in [[fiction]] in which characters are portrayed as a different [[gender]] from the one as which they were originally written.<ref name=":1">{{Citation \|last=Perkins \|first=Claire \|chapter=Ghost Girls: Ghostbusters, Popular Feminism and the Gender-Swap Reboot \|date=2020-09-15 \|title=Film Reboots \|pages=157–170 \|chapter-url=https://academic.oup.com/edinburgh-scholarship-online/book/37684/chapter/332013799 \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|publisher=[[Edinburgh University Press]] \|language=en \|doi=10.3366/edinburgh/9781474451369.003.0011 \|isbn=978-1-4744-5136-9\|chapter-url-access=subscription}}</ref> It is commonly used in film [[remake]]s or [[Reboot (fiction)\|reboots]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news \|last=Saner \|first=Emine \|date=2017-09-02 \|title=Lord of the Flies to Ocean's Eight: how Hollywood reboots are flipping gender \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/02/lord-of-the-flies-oceans-eight-hollywood-reboots-flipping-gender \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|work=[[The Guardian]] \|language=en-GB \|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
	[[File:Wikipe-tan and Wikipe-kun.png\|thumb\|[[Wikipe-tan]] (left) alongside a fan-made gender swapped counterpart (right)]]		[[File:Wikipe-tan and Wikipe-kun.png\|thumb\|[[Wikipe-tan]] (left) alongside a fan-made gender swapped counterpart (right)]]

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	A '''gender flip''' or '''gender swap''' is a technique in [[fiction]] in which characters are portrayed as a different [[gender]] from the one as which they were originally written.<ref name=":1">{{Citation \|last=Perkins \|first=Claire \|chapter=Ghost Girls: Ghostbusters, Popular Feminism and the Gender-Swap Reboot \|date=2020-09-15 \|title=Film Reboots \|pages=157–170 \|chapter-url=https://academic.oup.com/edinburgh-scholarship-online/book/37684/chapter/332013799 \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|publisher=[[Edinburgh University Press]] \|language=en \|doi=10.3366/edinburgh/9781474451369.003.0011 \|isbn=978-1-4744-5136-9\|chapter-url-access=subscription}}</ref> It is commonly used in film [[remake]]s or [[Reboot (fiction)\|reboots]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news \|last=Saner \|first=Emine \|date=2017-09-02 \|title=Lord of the Flies to Ocean's Eight: how Hollywood reboots are flipping gender \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/02/lord-of-the-flies-oceans-eight-hollywood-reboots-flipping-gender \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|work=[[The Guardian]] \|language=en-GB \|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>		A '''gender flip''' or '''gender swap''' is a technique in [[fiction]] in which characters are portrayed as a different [[gender]] from the one as which they were originally written.<ref name=":1">{{Citation \|last=Perkins \|first=Claire \|chapter=Ghost Girls: Ghostbusters, Popular Feminism and the Gender-Swap Reboot \|date=2020-09-15 \|title=Film Reboots \|pages=157–170 \|chapter-url=https://academic.oup.com/edinburgh-scholarship-online/book/37684/chapter/332013799 \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|publisher=[[Edinburgh University Press]] \|language=en \|doi=10.3366/edinburgh/9781474451369.003.0011 \|isbn=978-1-4744-5136-9\|chapter-url-access=subscription}}</ref> It is commonly used in film [[remake]]s or [[Reboot (fiction)\|reboots]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news \|last=Saner \|first=Emine \|date=2017-09-02 \|title=Lord of the Flies to Ocean's Eight: how Hollywood reboots are flipping gender \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/02/lord-of-the-flies-oceans-eight-hollywood-reboots-flipping-gender \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|work=[[The Guardian]] \|language=en-GB \|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
	[[File:Wikipe-tan and Wikipe-kun.png\|thumb\|[[Wikipe-tan]] (left) alongside a fan-made gender swapped counterpart (right)]]		[[File:Wikipe-tan and Wikipe-kun.png\|thumb\|[[Wikipe-tan]] (left) alongside a fan-made gender swapped counterpart (right)]]

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	The gender swap technique is also used in media other than film. The 2024 concept album ''[[Warriors (Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis album)\|Warriors]]'', based on [[The Warriors (film)\|a 1979 action film]], took inspiration from Gamergate to reimagine the story's central gang as women.<ref name=":2" /> [[Lin-Manuel Miranda]] has said that the gender swap was central to him being able to write a compelling narrative for his adaptation.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web \|date=2024-09-18 \|title=Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis on their 'Warriors' musical concept album with Lauryn Hill \|url=https://apnews.com/article/linmanuel-miranda-eisa-davis-warriors-lauryn-hill-album-942ba5ca1e424f82ca55a91c938c6322 \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|website=[[Associated Press\|AP News]] \|language=en}}</ref> The album's co-writer, [[Eisa Davis]], characterized the flip as a revolutionary and a feminist act, given the film's overtones she described as "misogynist" and "homophobic".<ref name=":11">{{Cite web \|last=Donnellan \|first=Sara \|date=October 28, 2024 \|title=Lin-Manuel Miranda's Warriors Concept Album Was His 'Dream Project' \|url=https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/lin-manuel-mirandas-warriors-concept-album-was-his-dream-project/ \|access-date=February 7, 2025 \|website=[[Us Weekly]] \|language=en-US}}</ref>		The gender swap technique is also used in media other than film. The 2024 concept album ''[[Warriors (Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis album)\|Warriors]]'', based on [[The Warriors (film)\|a 1979 action film]], took inspiration from Gamergate to reimagine the story's central gang as women.<ref name=":2" /> [[Lin-Manuel Miranda]] has said that the gender swap was central to him being able to write a compelling narrative for his adaptation.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web \|date=2024-09-18 \|title=Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis on their 'Warriors' musical concept album with Lauryn Hill \|url=https://apnews.com/article/linmanuel-miranda-eisa-davis-warriors-lauryn-hill-album-942ba5ca1e424f82ca55a91c938c6322 \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|website=[[Associated Press\|AP News]] \|language=en}}</ref> The album's co-writer, [[Eisa Davis]], characterized the flip as a revolutionary and a feminist act, given the film's overtones she described as "misogynist" and "homophobic".<ref name=":11">{{Cite web \|last=Donnellan \|first=Sara \|date=October 28, 2024 \|title=Lin-Manuel Miranda's Warriors Concept Album Was His 'Dream Project' \|url=https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/lin-manuel-mirandas-warriors-concept-album-was-his-dream-project/ \|access-date=February 7, 2025 \|website=[[Us Weekly]] \|language=en-US}}</ref>

	The term has also been used in the context of Japanese video game [[Fate (franchise)\|Fate franchise]]. Numerous characters in that universe (which debuted with the 2004 game [[Fate/Stay Night]]) are based on historical figures, but with their genders flipped from male to female; for example [[Attila]], [[King Arthur]] ([[Saber (Fate/Stay Night)\|Artoria]]), [[Francis Drake]], [[Jack the Ripper]], [[Miyamoto Musashi]], [[Mordred]] and [[Nero (Fate)\|Nero]] are portrayed as female.<ref name=":02">{{Citation \|last=Becklinger \|first=Nicole \|chapter=Necromancing Ancient Heroes and Heroines in the Fate Anime Series \|date=2026-06-04 \|title=Animation and the Ancient World \|pages=315–333 \|editor-last=Sulprizio \|editor-first=Chiara \|chapter-url=https://academic.oup.com/book/62483/chapter/557450153 \|access-date=2026-05-21 \|edition=1 \|publisher=Oxford University PressNew York, NY \|language=en \|doi=10.1093/9780197800652.003.0016 \|isbn=978-0-19-780065-2 \|last2=Swist \|first2=Jeremy \|editor2-last=Marshall \|editor2-first=C W}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite journal \|last=Boyd \|first=David John \|date=2021-06-01 \|title=Affective Anachronisms, Fateful Becomings: Otaku Movement and the Joan of Arc Effect in Type-Moon's Transhistorical Anime Ecology \|url=http://berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/screen-bodies/6/1/screen060107.xml \|journal=Screen Bodies \|volume=6 \|issue=1 \|pages=78–102 \|doi=10.3167/screen.2021.060107 \|issn=2374-7552}}</ref> These portrayals reflect both the franchise's interest in reinterpreting historical narratives and broader trends within contemporary [[Shōnen manga\|shōnen]] anime toward greater prominence of female heroic characters, situated the practice within longer anime traditions of gender ambiguity and gender transformation.<ref name=":02" /> David John Boyd interprets the phenomenon through the lens of gender theory and anime aesthetics. He argues that Type-Moon's reimagining of historical figures as anime girls constitutes a form of "[[shōjo]]-ification" of history, in which well-known historical personages are transformed into emotionally expressive heroines whose identities challenge conventional historical narratives.<ref name=":5" /> Many of these characters have become more popular online than their original, often obscure, historical versions.<ref name="tomsal2021">{{cite journal \|author1=Tomotani, João V. \|author2=Salvador, Rodrigo B. \|year=2021 \|title=The Astolfo Effect: the popularity of Fate/Grand Order characters in comparison to their real counterparts. \|url=https://jgeekstudies.org/2021/12/28/the-astolfo-effect-the-popularity-of-fate-grand-order-characters-in-comparison-to-their-real-counterparts/ \|journal=Journal of Geek Studies \|volume=8 \|issue=2 \|pages=59–69 \|doi=10.5281/zenodo.8241594}}</ref>		The term has also been used in the context of Japanese video game [[Fate (franchise)\|''Fate'' franchise]]. Numerous characters in that universe (which debuted with the 2004 game ''[[Fate/Stay Night]]'') are based on historical figures, but with their genders flipped from male to female; for example [[Attila]], [[King Arthur]] ([[Saber (Fate/Stay Night)\|Artoria]]), [[Francis Drake]], [[Jack the Ripper]], [[Miyamoto Musashi]], [[Mordred]] and [[Nero (Fate)\|Nero]] are portrayed as female.<ref name=":02">{{Citation \|last=Becklinger \|first=Nicole \|chapter=Necromancing Ancient Heroes and Heroines in the Fate Anime Series \|date=2026-06-04 \|title=Animation and the Ancient World \|pages=315–333 \|editor-last=Sulprizio \|editor-first=Chiara \|chapter-url=https://academic.oup.com/book/62483/chapter/557450153 \|access-date=2026-05-21 \|edition=1 \|publisher=Oxford University PressNew York, NY \|language=en \|doi=10.1093/9780197800652.003.0016 \|isbn=978-0-19-780065-2 \|last2=Swist \|first2=Jeremy \|editor2-last=Marshall \|editor2-first=C W}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite journal \|last=Boyd \|first=David John \|date=2021-06-01 \|title=Affective Anachronisms, Fateful Becomings: Otaku Movement and the Joan of Arc Effect in Type-Moon's Transhistorical Anime Ecology \|url=http://berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/screen-bodies/6/1/screen060107.xml \|journal=Screen Bodies \|volume=6 \|issue=1 \|pages=78–102 \|doi=10.3167/screen.2021.060107 \|issn=2374-7552}}</ref> These portrayals reflect both the franchise's interest in reinterpreting historical narratives and broader trends within contemporary [[Shōnen manga\|shōnen]] anime toward greater prominence of female heroic characters, situated the practice within longer anime traditions of gender ambiguity and gender transformation.<ref name=":02" /> David John Boyd interprets the phenomenon through the lens of gender theory and anime aesthetics. He argues that Type-Moon's reimagining of historical figures as anime girls constitutes a form of "[[shōjo]]-ification" of history, in which well-known historical personages are transformed into emotionally expressive heroines whose identities challenge conventional historical narratives.<ref name=":5" /> Many of these characters have become more popular online than their original, often obscure, historical versions.<ref name="tomsal2021">{{cite journal \|author1=Tomotani, João V. \|author2=Salvador, Rodrigo B. \|year=2021 \|title=The Astolfo Effect: the popularity of Fate/Grand Order characters in comparison to their real counterparts. \|url=https://jgeekstudies.org/2021/12/28/the-astolfo-effect-the-popularity-of-fate-grand-order-characters-in-comparison-to-their-real-counterparts/ \|journal=Journal of Geek Studies \|volume=8 \|issue=2 \|pages=59–69 \|doi=10.5281/zenodo.8241594}}</ref>

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	A '''gender flip''' or '''gender swap''' is a technique in [[fiction]] in which characters are portrayed as a different [[gender]] from the one as which they were originally written.<ref name=":1">{{Citation \|last=Perkins \|first=Claire \|chapter=Ghost Girls: Ghostbusters, Popular Feminism and the Gender-Swap Reboot \|date=2020-09-15 \|title=Film Reboots \|pages=157–170 \|chapter-url=https://academic.oup.com/edinburgh-scholarship-online/book/37684/chapter/332013799 \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|publisher=[[Edinburgh University Press]] \|language=en \|doi=10.3366/edinburgh/9781474451369.003.0011 \|isbn=978-1-4744-5136-9\|chapter-url-access=subscription}}</ref> It is commonly used in film [[remake]]s or [[Reboot (fiction)\|reboots]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news \|last=Saner \|first=Emine \|date=2017-09-02 \|title=Lord of the Flies to Ocean's Eight: how Hollywood reboots are flipping gender \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/02/lord-of-the-flies-oceans-eight-hollywood-reboots-flipping-gender \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|work=[[The Guardian]] \|language=en-GB \|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>		A '''gender flip''' or '''gender swap''' is a technique in [[fiction]] in which characters are portrayed as a different [[gender]] from the one as which they were originally written.<ref name=":1">{{Citation \|last=Perkins \|first=Claire \|chapter=Ghost Girls: Ghostbusters, Popular Feminism and the Gender-Swap Reboot \|date=2020-09-15 \|title=Film Reboots \|pages=157–170 \|chapter-url=https://academic.oup.com/edinburgh-scholarship-online/book/37684/chapter/332013799 \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|publisher=[[Edinburgh University Press]] \|language=en \|doi=10.3366/edinburgh/9781474451369.003.0011 \|isbn=978-1-4744-5136-9\|chapter-url-access=subscription}}</ref> It is commonly used in film [[remake]]s or [[Reboot (fiction)\|reboots]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news \|last=Saner \|first=Emine \|date=2017-09-02 \|title=Lord of the Flies to Ocean's Eight: how Hollywood reboots are flipping gender \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/02/lord-of-the-flies-oceans-eight-hollywood-reboots-flipping-gender \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|work=[[The Guardian]] \|language=en-GB \|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
	[[File:Wikipe-tan and Wikipe-kun.png\|thumb\|[[Wikipe-tan]] alongside a fan-made gender swapped counterpart]]		[[File:Wikipe-tan and Wikipe-kun.png\|thumb\|[[Wikipe-tan]] (left) alongside a fan-made gender swapped counterpart (right)]]
	== History ==		== History ==
	Despite the prominence of the idea in films of the 2010s, the concept dates from much earlier. ''[[Radio Times]]'' critic Emma Simmonds gives the example of 1939's ''[[His Girl Friday]]'', adapted from 1928 [[Broadway theatre\|Broadway]] play ''[[The Front Page]]'', in which the gender of character Hildy Johnson is switched from male to female.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Simmonds \|first=Emma \|title=From Ocean's 8 to Ghostbusters: a history of Hollywood's gender swap movie trend {{!}} Radio Times \|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/oceans-8-movie-gender-swap-hollywood/ \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|website=[[Radio Times]] \|language=en-GB}}</ref>		Despite the prominence of the idea in films of the 2010s, the concept dates from much earlier. ''[[Radio Times]]'' critic Emma Simmonds gives the example of 1939's ''[[His Girl Friday]]'', adapted from 1928 [[Broadway theatre\|Broadway]] play ''[[The Front Page]]'', in which the gender of character Hildy Johnson is switched from male to female.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Simmonds \|first=Emma \|title=From Ocean's 8 to Ghostbusters: a history of Hollywood's gender swap movie trend {{!}} Radio Times \|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/oceans-8-movie-gender-swap-hollywood/ \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|website=[[Radio Times]] \|language=en-GB}}</ref>

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	A '''gender flip''' or '''gender swap''' is a technique in [[fiction]] in which characters are portrayed as a different [[gender]] from the one as which they were originally written.<ref name=":1">{{Citation \|last=Perkins \|first=Claire \|chapter=Ghost Girls: Ghostbusters, Popular Feminism and the Gender-Swap Reboot \|date=2020-09-15 \|title=Film Reboots \|pages=157–170 \|chapter-url=https://academic.oup.com/edinburgh-scholarship-online/book/37684/chapter/332013799 \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|publisher=[[Edinburgh University Press]] \|language=en \|doi=10.3366/edinburgh/9781474451369.003.0011 \|isbn=978-1-4744-5136-9\|chapter-url-access=subscription}}</ref> It is commonly used in film [[remake]]s or [[Reboot (fiction)\|reboots]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news \|last=Saner \|first=Emine \|date=2017-09-02 \|title=Lord of the Flies to Ocean's Eight: how Hollywood reboots are flipping gender \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/02/lord-of-the-flies-oceans-eight-hollywood-reboots-flipping-gender \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|work=[[The Guardian]] \|language=en-GB \|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>		A '''gender flip''' or '''gender swap''' is a technique in [[fiction]] in which characters are portrayed as a different [[gender]] from the one as which they were originally written.<ref name=":1">{{Citation \|last=Perkins \|first=Claire \|chapter=Ghost Girls: Ghostbusters, Popular Feminism and the Gender-Swap Reboot \|date=2020-09-15 \|title=Film Reboots \|pages=157–170 \|chapter-url=https://academic.oup.com/edinburgh-scholarship-online/book/37684/chapter/332013799 \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|publisher=[[Edinburgh University Press]] \|language=en \|doi=10.3366/edinburgh/9781474451369.003.0011 \|isbn=978-1-4744-5136-9\|chapter-url-access=subscription}}</ref> It is commonly used in film [[remake]]s or [[Reboot (fiction)\|reboots]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news \|last=Saner \|first=Emine \|date=2017-09-02 \|title=Lord of the Flies to Ocean's Eight: how Hollywood reboots are flipping gender \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/02/lord-of-the-flies-oceans-eight-hollywood-reboots-flipping-gender \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|work=[[The Guardian]] \|language=en-GB \|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
	[[File:Wikipe-tan and Wikipe-kun.png\|thumb\|[[Wikipe-tan]] alongside a fan-made ~~genderswap~~ counterpart]]		[[File:Wikipe-tan and Wikipe-kun.png\|thumb\|[[Wikipe-tan]] alongside a fan-made gender swapped counterpart]]
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	Despite the prominence of the idea in films of the 2010s, the concept dates from much earlier. ''[[Radio Times]]'' critic Emma Simmonds gives the example of 1939's ''[[His Girl Friday]]'', adapted from 1928 [[Broadway theatre\|Broadway]] play ''[[The Front Page]]'', in which the gender of character Hildy Johnson is switched from male to female.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Simmonds \|first=Emma \|title=From Ocean's 8 to Ghostbusters: a history of Hollywood's gender swap movie trend {{!}} Radio Times \|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/oceans-8-movie-gender-swap-hollywood/ \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|website=[[Radio Times]] \|language=en-GB}}</ref>		Despite the prominence of the idea in films of the 2010s, the concept dates from much earlier. ''[[Radio Times]]'' critic Emma Simmonds gives the example of 1939's ''[[His Girl Friday]]'', adapted from 1928 [[Broadway theatre\|Broadway]] play ''[[The Front Page]]'', in which the gender of character Hildy Johnson is switched from male to female.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Simmonds \|first=Emma \|title=From Ocean's 8 to Ghostbusters: a history of Hollywood's gender swap movie trend {{!}} Radio Times \|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/oceans-8-movie-gender-swap-hollywood/ \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|website=[[Radio Times]] \|language=en-GB}}</ref>

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	A '''gender flip''' or '''gender swap''' is a technique in [[fiction]] in which characters are portrayed as a different [[gender]] from the one as which they were originally written.<ref name=":1">{{Citation \|last=Perkins \|first=Claire \|chapter=Ghost Girls: Ghostbusters, Popular Feminism and the Gender-Swap Reboot \|date=2020-09-15 \|title=Film Reboots \|pages=157–170 \|chapter-url=https://academic.oup.com/edinburgh-scholarship-online/book/37684/chapter/332013799 \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|publisher=[[Edinburgh University Press]] \|language=en \|doi=10.3366/edinburgh/9781474451369.003.0011 \|isbn=978-1-4744-5136-9\|chapter-url-access=subscription}}</ref> It is commonly used in film [[remake]]s or [[Reboot (fiction)\|reboots]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news \|last=Saner \|first=Emine \|date=2017-09-02 \|title=Lord of the Flies to Ocean's Eight: how Hollywood reboots are flipping gender \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/02/lord-of-the-flies-oceans-eight-hollywood-reboots-flipping-gender \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|work=[[The Guardian]] \|language=en-GB \|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>		A '''gender flip''' or '''gender swap''' is a technique in [[fiction]] in which characters are portrayed as a different [[gender]] from the one as which they were originally written.<ref name=":1">{{Citation \|last=Perkins \|first=Claire \|chapter=Ghost Girls: Ghostbusters, Popular Feminism and the Gender-Swap Reboot \|date=2020-09-15 \|title=Film Reboots \|pages=157–170 \|chapter-url=https://academic.oup.com/edinburgh-scholarship-online/book/37684/chapter/332013799 \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|publisher=[[Edinburgh University Press]] \|language=en \|doi=10.3366/edinburgh/9781474451369.003.0011 \|isbn=978-1-4744-5136-9\|chapter-url-access=subscription}}</ref> It is commonly used in film [[remake]]s or [[Reboot (fiction)\|reboots]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news \|last=Saner \|first=Emine \|date=2017-09-02 \|title=Lord of the Flies to Ocean's Eight: how Hollywood reboots are flipping gender \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/02/lord-of-the-flies-oceans-eight-hollywood-reboots-flipping-gender \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|work=[[The Guardian]] \|language=en-GB \|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
	[[File:Wikipe-tan and Wikipe-kun.png\|thumb\|Wikipe-tan alongside ~~her~~ genderswap counterpart~~, Wikipe-kun~~]]		[[File:Wikipe-tan and Wikipe-kun.png\|thumb\|[[Wikipe-tan]] alongside a fan-made genderswap counterpart]]
	== History ==		== History ==
	Despite the prominence of the idea in films of the 2010s, the concept dates from much earlier. ''[[Radio Times]]'' critic Emma Simmonds gives the example of 1939's ''[[His Girl Friday]]'', adapted from 1928 [[Broadway theatre\|Broadway]] play ''[[The Front Page]]'', in which the gender of character Hildy Johnson is switched from male to female.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Simmonds \|first=Emma \|title=From Ocean's 8 to Ghostbusters: a history of Hollywood's gender swap movie trend {{!}} Radio Times \|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/oceans-8-movie-gender-swap-hollywood/ \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|website=[[Radio Times]] \|language=en-GB}}</ref>		Despite the prominence of the idea in films of the 2010s, the concept dates from much earlier. ''[[Radio Times]]'' critic Emma Simmonds gives the example of 1939's ''[[His Girl Friday]]'', adapted from 1928 [[Broadway theatre\|Broadway]] play ''[[The Front Page]]'', in which the gender of character Hildy Johnson is switched from male to female.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Simmonds \|first=Emma \|title=From Ocean's 8 to Ghostbusters: a history of Hollywood's gender swap movie trend {{!}} Radio Times \|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/oceans-8-movie-gender-swap-hollywood/ \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|website=[[Radio Times]] \|language=en-GB}}</ref>

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	A '''gender flip''' or '''gender swap''' is a technique in [[fiction]] in which characters are portrayed as a different [[gender]] from the one as which they were originally written.<ref name=":1">{{Citation \|last=Perkins \|first=Claire \|chapter=Ghost Girls: Ghostbusters, Popular Feminism and the Gender-Swap Reboot \|date=2020-09-15 \|title=Film Reboots \|pages=157–170 \|chapter-url=https://academic.oup.com/edinburgh-scholarship-online/book/37684/chapter/332013799 \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|publisher=[[Edinburgh University Press]] \|language=en \|doi=10.3366/edinburgh/9781474451369.003.0011 \|isbn=978-1-4744-5136-9\|chapter-url-access=subscription}}</ref> It is commonly used in film [[remake]]s or [[Reboot (fiction)\|reboots]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news \|last=Saner \|first=Emine \|date=2017-09-02 \|title=Lord of the Flies to Ocean's Eight: how Hollywood reboots are flipping gender \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/02/lord-of-the-flies-oceans-eight-hollywood-reboots-flipping-gender \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|work=[[The Guardian]] \|language=en-GB \|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>		A '''gender flip''' or '''gender swap''' is a technique in [[fiction]] in which characters are portrayed as a different [[gender]] from the one as which they were originally written.<ref name=":1">{{Citation \|last=Perkins \|first=Claire \|chapter=Ghost Girls: Ghostbusters, Popular Feminism and the Gender-Swap Reboot \|date=2020-09-15 \|title=Film Reboots \|pages=157–170 \|chapter-url=https://academic.oup.com/edinburgh-scholarship-online/book/37684/chapter/332013799 \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|publisher=[[Edinburgh University Press]] \|language=en \|doi=10.3366/edinburgh/9781474451369.003.0011 \|isbn=978-1-4744-5136-9\|chapter-url-access=subscription}}</ref> It is commonly used in film [[remake]]s or [[Reboot (fiction)\|reboots]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news \|last=Saner \|first=Emine \|date=2017-09-02 \|title=Lord of the Flies to Ocean's Eight: how Hollywood reboots are flipping gender \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/02/lord-of-the-flies-oceans-eight-hollywood-reboots-flipping-gender \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|work=[[The Guardian]] \|language=en-GB \|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
			[[File:Wikipe-tan and Wikipe-kun.png\|thumb\|Wikipe-tan alongside her genderswap counterpart, Wikipe-kun]]
	== History ==		== History ==
	Despite the prominence of the idea in films of the 2010s, the concept dates from much earlier. ''[[Radio Times]]'' critic Emma Simmonds gives the example of 1939's ''[[His Girl Friday]]'', adapted from 1928 [[Broadway theatre\|Broadway]] play ''[[The Front Page]]'', in which the gender of character Hildy Johnson is switched from male to female.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Simmonds \|first=Emma \|title=From Ocean's 8 to Ghostbusters: a history of Hollywood's gender swap movie trend {{!}} Radio Times \|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/oceans-8-movie-gender-swap-hollywood/ \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|website=[[Radio Times]] \|language=en-GB}}</ref>		Despite the prominence of the idea in films of the 2010s, the concept dates from much earlier. ''[[Radio Times]]'' critic Emma Simmonds gives the example of 1939's ''[[His Girl Friday]]'', adapted from 1928 [[Broadway theatre\|Broadway]] play ''[[The Front Page]]'', in which the gender of character Hildy Johnson is switched from male to female.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Simmonds \|first=Emma \|title=From Ocean's 8 to Ghostbusters: a history of Hollywood's gender swap movie trend {{!}} Radio Times \|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/oceans-8-movie-gender-swap-hollywood/ \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|website=[[Radio Times]] \|language=en-GB}}</ref>

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	A '''gender flip''' or '''gender swap''' is a technique in [[fiction]] in which characters are portrayed as a different [[gender]] from the one as which they were originally written.<ref name=":1">{{Citation \|last=Perkins \|first=Claire \|~~title~~=Ghost Girls: Ghostbusters, Popular Feminism and the Gender-Swap Reboot \|date=2020-09-15 \|~~work~~=Film Reboots \|pages=157–170 \|url=https://academic.oup.com/edinburgh-scholarship-online/book/37684/chapter/332013799 \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|publisher=[[Edinburgh University Press]] \|language=en \|doi=10.3366/edinburgh/9781474451369.003.0011 \|isbn=978-1-4744-5136-9\|url-access=subscription}}</ref> It is commonly used in film [[~~Remake\|remakes~~]] or [[Reboot (fiction)\|reboots]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news \|last=Saner \|first=Emine \|date=2017-09-02 \|title=Lord of the Flies to Ocean's Eight: how Hollywood reboots are flipping gender \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/02/lord-of-the-flies-oceans-eight-hollywood-reboots-flipping-gender \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|work=[[The Guardian]] \|language=en-GB \|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>		A '''gender flip''' or '''gender swap''' is a technique in [[fiction]] in which characters are portrayed as a different [[gender]] from the one as which they were originally written.<ref name=":1">{{Citation \|last=Perkins \|first=Claire \|chapter=Ghost Girls: Ghostbusters, Popular Feminism and the Gender-Swap Reboot \|date=2020-09-15 \|title=Film Reboots \|pages=157–170 \|chapter-url=https://academic.oup.com/edinburgh-scholarship-online/book/37684/chapter/332013799 \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|publisher=[[Edinburgh University Press]] \|language=en \|doi=10.3366/edinburgh/9781474451369.003.0011 \|isbn=978-1-4744-5136-9\|chapter-url-access=subscription}}</ref> It is commonly used in film [[remake]]s or [[Reboot (fiction)\|reboots]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news \|last=Saner \|first=Emine \|date=2017-09-02 \|title=Lord of the Flies to Ocean's Eight: how Hollywood reboots are flipping gender \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/02/lord-of-the-flies-oceans-eight-hollywood-reboots-flipping-gender \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|work=[[The Guardian]] \|language=en-GB \|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

	== History ==		== History ==
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	The gender swap technique is also used in media other than film. The 2024 concept album ''[[Warriors (Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis album)\|Warriors]]'', based on [[The Warriors (film)\|a 1979 action film]], took inspiration from Gamergate to reimagine the story's central gang as women.<ref name=":2" /> [[Lin-Manuel Miranda]] has said that the gender swap was central to him being able to write a compelling narrative for his adaptation.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web \|date=2024-09-18 \|title=Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis on their 'Warriors' musical concept album with Lauryn Hill \|url=https://apnews.com/article/linmanuel-miranda-eisa-davis-warriors-lauryn-hill-album-942ba5ca1e424f82ca55a91c938c6322 \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|website=[[Associated Press\|AP News]] \|language=en}}</ref> The album's co-writer, [[Eisa Davis]], characterized the flip as a revolutionary and a feminist act, given the film's overtones she described as "misogynist" and "homophobic".<ref name=":11">{{Cite web \|last=Donnellan \|first=Sara \|date=October 28, 2024 \|title=Lin-Manuel Miranda's Warriors Concept Album Was His 'Dream Project' \|url=https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/lin-manuel-mirandas-warriors-concept-album-was-his-dream-project/ \|access-date=February 7, 2025 \|website=[[Us Weekly]] \|language=en-US}}</ref>		The gender swap technique is also used in media other than film. The 2024 concept album ''[[Warriors (Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis album)\|Warriors]]'', based on [[The Warriors (film)\|a 1979 action film]], took inspiration from Gamergate to reimagine the story's central gang as women.<ref name=":2" /> [[Lin-Manuel Miranda]] has said that the gender swap was central to him being able to write a compelling narrative for his adaptation.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web \|date=2024-09-18 \|title=Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis on their 'Warriors' musical concept album with Lauryn Hill \|url=https://apnews.com/article/linmanuel-miranda-eisa-davis-warriors-lauryn-hill-album-942ba5ca1e424f82ca55a91c938c6322 \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|website=[[Associated Press\|AP News]] \|language=en}}</ref> The album's co-writer, [[Eisa Davis]], characterized the flip as a revolutionary and a feminist act, given the film's overtones she described as "misogynist" and "homophobic".<ref name=":11">{{Cite web \|last=Donnellan \|first=Sara \|date=October 28, 2024 \|title=Lin-Manuel Miranda's Warriors Concept Album Was His 'Dream Project' \|url=https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/lin-manuel-mirandas-warriors-concept-album-was-his-dream-project/ \|access-date=February 7, 2025 \|website=[[Us Weekly]] \|language=en-US}}</ref>

	The term has also been used in the context of Japanese video game [[Fate (franchise)\|Fate franchise]]. Numerous characters in that universe (which debuted with the 2004 game [[Fate/Stay Night]]) are based on historical figures, but with their genders flipped from male to female; for example [[Attila]], [[King Arthur]] ([[Saber (Fate/Stay Night)\|Artoria]]), [[Francis Drake]], [[Jack the Ripper]], [[Miyamoto Musashi]], [[Mordred]] and [[Nero (Fate)\|Nero]] are portrayed as female.<ref name=":02">{{Citation \|last=Becklinger \|first=Nicole \|~~title~~=Necromancing Ancient Heroes and Heroines in the Fate Anime Series \|date=2026-06-04 \|~~work~~=Animation and the Ancient World \|pages=315–333 \|editor-last=Sulprizio \|editor-first=Chiara \|url=https://academic.oup.com/book/62483/chapter/557450153 \|access-date=2026-05-21 \|edition=1 \|publisher=Oxford University PressNew York, NY \|language=en \|doi=10.1093/9780197800652.003.0016 \|isbn=978-0-19-780065-2 \|last2=Swist \|first2=Jeremy \|editor2-last=Marshall \|editor2-first=C W}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite journal \|last=Boyd \|first=David John \|date=2021-06-01 \|title=Affective Anachronisms, Fateful Becomings: Otaku Movement and the Joan of Arc Effect in Type-~~Moon’s~~ Transhistorical Anime Ecology \|url=http://berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/screen-bodies/6/1/screen060107.xml \|journal=Screen Bodies \|volume=6 \|issue=1 \|pages=78–102 \|doi=10.3167/screen.2021.060107 \|issn=2374-7552}}</ref> These portrayals reflect both the franchise's interest in reinterpreting historical narratives and broader trends within contemporary [[Shōnen manga\|shōnen]] anime toward greater prominence of female heroic characters, situated the practice within longer anime traditions of gender ambiguity and gender transformation.<ref name=":02" /> David John Boyd interprets the phenomenon through the lens of gender theory and anime aesthetics. He argues that Type-Moon's reimagining of historical figures as anime girls constitutes a form of "[[shōjo]]-ification" of history, in which well-known historical personages are transformed into emotionally expressive heroines whose identities challenge conventional historical narratives.<ref name=":5" /> Many of these characters have become more popular online than their original, often obscure, historical versions.<ref name="tomsal2021">{{cite journal \|author1=Tomotani, João V. \|author2=Salvador, Rodrigo B. \|year=2021 \|title=The Astolfo Effect: the popularity of Fate/Grand Order characters in comparison to their real counterparts. \|url=https://jgeekstudies.org/2021/12/28/the-astolfo-effect-the-popularity-of-fate-grand-order-characters-in-comparison-to-their-real-counterparts/ \|journal=Journal of Geek Studies \|volume=8 \|issue=2 \|pages=59–69 \|doi=10.5281/zenodo.8241594}}</ref>		The term has also been used in the context of Japanese video game [[Fate (franchise)\|Fate franchise]]. Numerous characters in that universe (which debuted with the 2004 game [[Fate/Stay Night]]) are based on historical figures, but with their genders flipped from male to female; for example [[Attila]], [[King Arthur]] ([[Saber (Fate/Stay Night)\|Artoria]]), [[Francis Drake]], [[Jack the Ripper]], [[Miyamoto Musashi]], [[Mordred]] and [[Nero (Fate)\|Nero]] are portrayed as female.<ref name=":02">{{Citation \|last=Becklinger \|first=Nicole \|chapter=Necromancing Ancient Heroes and Heroines in the Fate Anime Series \|date=2026-06-04 \|title=Animation and the Ancient World \|pages=315–333 \|editor-last=Sulprizio \|editor-first=Chiara \|chapter-url=https://academic.oup.com/book/62483/chapter/557450153 \|access-date=2026-05-21 \|edition=1 \|publisher=Oxford University PressNew York, NY \|language=en \|doi=10.1093/9780197800652.003.0016 \|isbn=978-0-19-780065-2 \|last2=Swist \|first2=Jeremy \|editor2-last=Marshall \|editor2-first=C W}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite journal \|last=Boyd \|first=David John \|date=2021-06-01 \|title=Affective Anachronisms, Fateful Becomings: Otaku Movement and the Joan of Arc Effect in Type-Moon's Transhistorical Anime Ecology \|url=http://berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/screen-bodies/6/1/screen060107.xml \|journal=Screen Bodies \|volume=6 \|issue=1 \|pages=78–102 \|doi=10.3167/screen.2021.060107 \|issn=2374-7552}}</ref> These portrayals reflect both the franchise's interest in reinterpreting historical narratives and broader trends within contemporary [[Shōnen manga\|shōnen]] anime toward greater prominence of female heroic characters, situated the practice within longer anime traditions of gender ambiguity and gender transformation.<ref name=":02" /> David John Boyd interprets the phenomenon through the lens of gender theory and anime aesthetics. He argues that Type-Moon's reimagining of historical figures as anime girls constitutes a form of "[[shōjo]]-ification" of history, in which well-known historical personages are transformed into emotionally expressive heroines whose identities challenge conventional historical narratives.<ref name=":5" /> Many of these characters have become more popular online than their original, often obscure, historical versions.<ref name="tomsal2021">{{cite journal \|author1=Tomotani, João V. \|author2=Salvador, Rodrigo B. \|year=2021 \|title=The Astolfo Effect: the popularity of Fate/Grand Order characters in comparison to their real counterparts. \|url=https://jgeekstudies.org/2021/12/28/the-astolfo-effect-the-popularity-of-fate-grand-order-characters-in-comparison-to-their-real-counterparts/ \|journal=Journal of Geek Studies \|volume=8 \|issue=2 \|pages=59–69 \|doi=10.5281/zenodo.8241594}}</ref>

	== See also ==		== See also ==

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	A '''gender flip''' or '''gender swap''' is a technique in [[fiction]] in which characters are portrayed as a different [[gender]] from the one as which they were originally written.<ref name=":1">{{Citation \|last=Perkins \|first=Claire \|chapter=Ghost Girls: Ghostbusters, Popular Feminism and the Gender-Swap Reboot \|date=2020-09-15 \|title=Film Reboots \|pages=157–170 \|chapter-url=https://academic.oup.com/edinburgh-scholarship-online/book/37684/chapter/332013799 \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|publisher=[[Edinburgh University Press]] \|language=en \|doi=10.3366/edinburgh/9781474451369.003.0011 \|isbn=978-1-4744-5136-9\|chapter-url-access=subscription}}</ref> It is commonly used in film [[remake]]s or [[Reboot (fiction)\|reboots]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news \|last=Saner \|first=Emine \|date=2017-09-02 \|title=Lord of the Flies to Ocean's Eight: how Hollywood reboots are flipping gender \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/02/lord-of-the-flies-oceans-eight-hollywood-reboots-flipping-gender \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|work=[[The Guardian]] \|language=en-GB \|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>		A '''gender flip''' or '''gender swap''' is a technique in [[fiction]] in which characters are portrayed as a different [[gender]] from the one as which they were originally written.<ref name=":1">{{Citation \|last=Perkins \|first=Claire \|chapter=Ghost Girls: Ghostbusters, Popular Feminism and the Gender-Swap Reboot \|date=2020-09-15 \|title=Film Reboots \|pages=157–170 \|chapter-url=https://academic.oup.com/edinburgh-scholarship-online/book/37684/chapter/332013799 \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|publisher=[[Edinburgh University Press]] \|language=en \|doi=10.3366/edinburgh/9781474451369.003.0011 \|isbn=978-1-4744-5136-9\|chapter-url-access=subscription}}</ref> It is commonly used in film [[remake]]s or [[Reboot (fiction)\|reboots]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news \|last=Saner \|first=Emine \|date=2017-09-02 \|title=Lord of the Flies to Ocean's Eight: how Hollywood reboots are flipping gender \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/02/lord-of-the-flies-oceans-eight-hollywood-reboots-flipping-gender \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|work=[[The Guardian]] \|language=en-GB \|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
	[[File:Wikipe-tan and Wikipe-kun.png\|thumb\|[[Wikipe-tan]] (left) alongside a fan-made gender swapped counterpart (right)]]		[[File:Wikipe-tan and Wikipe-kun.png\|thumb\|[[Wikipe-tan]] (left) alongside a fan-made gender swapped counterpart (right)]]

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	A '''gender flip''' or '''gender swap''' is a technique in [[fiction]] in which characters are portrayed as a different [[gender]] from the one as which they were originally written.<ref name=":1">{{Citation \|last=Perkins \|first=Claire \|chapter=Ghost Girls: Ghostbusters, Popular Feminism and the Gender-Swap Reboot \|date=2020-09-15 \|title=Film Reboots \|pages=157–170 \|chapter-url=https://academic.oup.com/edinburgh-scholarship-online/book/37684/chapter/332013799 \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|publisher=[[Edinburgh University Press]] \|language=en \|doi=10.3366/edinburgh/9781474451369.003.0011 \|isbn=978-1-4744-5136-9\|chapter-url-access=subscription}}</ref> It is commonly used in film [[remake]]s or [[Reboot (fiction)\|reboots]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news \|last=Saner \|first=Emine \|date=2017-09-02 \|title=Lord of the Flies to Ocean's Eight: how Hollywood reboots are flipping gender \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/02/lord-of-the-flies-oceans-eight-hollywood-reboots-flipping-gender \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|work=[[The Guardian]] \|language=en-GB \|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>		A '''gender flip''' or '''gender swap''' is a technique in [[fiction]] in which characters are portrayed as a different [[gender]] from the one as which they were originally written.<ref name=":1">{{Citation \|last=Perkins \|first=Claire \|chapter=Ghost Girls: Ghostbusters, Popular Feminism and the Gender-Swap Reboot \|date=2020-09-15 \|title=Film Reboots \|pages=157–170 \|chapter-url=https://academic.oup.com/edinburgh-scholarship-online/book/37684/chapter/332013799 \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|publisher=[[Edinburgh University Press]] \|language=en \|doi=10.3366/edinburgh/9781474451369.003.0011 \|isbn=978-1-4744-5136-9\|chapter-url-access=subscription}}</ref> It is commonly used in film [[remake]]s or [[Reboot (fiction)\|reboots]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news \|last=Saner \|first=Emine \|date=2017-09-02 \|title=Lord of the Flies to Ocean's Eight: how Hollywood reboots are flipping gender \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/02/lord-of-the-flies-oceans-eight-hollywood-reboots-flipping-gender \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|work=[[The Guardian]] \|language=en-GB \|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
	[[File:Wikipe-tan and Wikipe-kun.png\|thumb\|[[Wikipe-tan]] (left) alongside a fan-made gender swapped counterpart (right)]]		[[File:Wikipe-tan and Wikipe-kun.png\|thumb\|[[Wikipe-tan]] (left) alongside a fan-made gender swapped counterpart (right)]]

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	A '''gender flip''' or '''gender swap''' is a technique in [[fiction]] in which characters are portrayed as a different [[gender]] from the one as which they were originally written.<ref name=":1">{{Citation \|last=Perkins \|first=Claire \|chapter=Ghost Girls: Ghostbusters, Popular Feminism and the Gender-Swap Reboot \|date=2020-09-15 \|title=Film Reboots \|pages=157–170 \|chapter-url=https://academic.oup.com/edinburgh-scholarship-online/book/37684/chapter/332013799 \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|publisher=[[Edinburgh University Press]] \|language=en \|doi=10.3366/edinburgh/9781474451369.003.0011 \|isbn=978-1-4744-5136-9\|chapter-url-access=subscription}}</ref> It is commonly used in film [[remake]]s or [[Reboot (fiction)\|reboots]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news \|last=Saner \|first=Emine \|date=2017-09-02 \|title=Lord of the Flies to Ocean's Eight: how Hollywood reboots are flipping gender \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/02/lord-of-the-flies-oceans-eight-hollywood-reboots-flipping-gender \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|work=[[The Guardian]] \|language=en-GB \|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>		A '''gender flip''' or '''gender swap''' is a technique in [[fiction]] in which characters are portrayed as a different [[gender]] from the one as which they were originally written.<ref name=":1">{{Citation \|last=Perkins \|first=Claire \|chapter=Ghost Girls: Ghostbusters, Popular Feminism and the Gender-Swap Reboot \|date=2020-09-15 \|title=Film Reboots \|pages=157–170 \|chapter-url=https://academic.oup.com/edinburgh-scholarship-online/book/37684/chapter/332013799 \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|publisher=[[Edinburgh University Press]] \|language=en \|doi=10.3366/edinburgh/9781474451369.003.0011 \|isbn=978-1-4744-5136-9\|chapter-url-access=subscription}}</ref> It is commonly used in film [[remake]]s or [[Reboot (fiction)\|reboots]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news \|last=Saner \|first=Emine \|date=2017-09-02 \|title=Lord of the Flies to Ocean's Eight: how Hollywood reboots are flipping gender \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/02/lord-of-the-flies-oceans-eight-hollywood-reboots-flipping-gender \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|work=[[The Guardian]] \|language=en-GB \|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
	[[File:Wikipe-tan and Wikipe-kun.png\|thumb\|[[Wikipe-tan]] alongside a fan-made gender swapped counterpart]]		[[File:Wikipe-tan and Wikipe-kun.png\|thumb\|[[Wikipe-tan]] (left) alongside a fan-made gender swapped counterpart (right)]]
	== History ==		== History ==
	Despite the prominence of the idea in films of the 2010s, the concept dates from much earlier. ''[[Radio Times]]'' critic Emma Simmonds gives the example of 1939's ''[[His Girl Friday]]'', adapted from 1928 [[Broadway theatre\|Broadway]] play ''[[The Front Page]]'', in which the gender of character Hildy Johnson is switched from male to female.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Simmonds \|first=Emma \|title=From Ocean's 8 to Ghostbusters: a history of Hollywood's gender swap movie trend {{!}} Radio Times \|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/oceans-8-movie-gender-swap-hollywood/ \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|website=[[Radio Times]] \|language=en-GB}}</ref>		Despite the prominence of the idea in films of the 2010s, the concept dates from much earlier. ''[[Radio Times]]'' critic Emma Simmonds gives the example of 1939's ''[[His Girl Friday]]'', adapted from 1928 [[Broadway theatre\|Broadway]] play ''[[The Front Page]]'', in which the gender of character Hildy Johnson is switched from male to female.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Simmonds \|first=Emma \|title=From Ocean's 8 to Ghostbusters: a history of Hollywood's gender swap movie trend {{!}} Radio Times \|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/oceans-8-movie-gender-swap-hollywood/ \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|website=[[Radio Times]] \|language=en-GB}}</ref>

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	A '''gender flip''' or '''gender swap''' is a technique in [[fiction]] in which characters are portrayed as a different [[gender]] from the one as which they were originally written.<ref name=":1">{{Citation \|last=Perkins \|first=Claire \|chapter=Ghost Girls: Ghostbusters, Popular Feminism and the Gender-Swap Reboot \|date=2020-09-15 \|title=Film Reboots \|pages=157–170 \|chapter-url=https://academic.oup.com/edinburgh-scholarship-online/book/37684/chapter/332013799 \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|publisher=[[Edinburgh University Press]] \|language=en \|doi=10.3366/edinburgh/9781474451369.003.0011 \|isbn=978-1-4744-5136-9\|chapter-url-access=subscription}}</ref> It is commonly used in film [[remake]]s or [[Reboot (fiction)\|reboots]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news \|last=Saner \|first=Emine \|date=2017-09-02 \|title=Lord of the Flies to Ocean's Eight: how Hollywood reboots are flipping gender \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/02/lord-of-the-flies-oceans-eight-hollywood-reboots-flipping-gender \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|work=[[The Guardian]] \|language=en-GB \|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>		A '''gender flip''' or '''gender swap''' is a technique in [[fiction]] in which characters are portrayed as a different [[gender]] from the one as which they were originally written.<ref name=":1">{{Citation \|last=Perkins \|first=Claire \|chapter=Ghost Girls: Ghostbusters, Popular Feminism and the Gender-Swap Reboot \|date=2020-09-15 \|title=Film Reboots \|pages=157–170 \|chapter-url=https://academic.oup.com/edinburgh-scholarship-online/book/37684/chapter/332013799 \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|publisher=[[Edinburgh University Press]] \|language=en \|doi=10.3366/edinburgh/9781474451369.003.0011 \|isbn=978-1-4744-5136-9\|chapter-url-access=subscription}}</ref> It is commonly used in film [[remake]]s or [[Reboot (fiction)\|reboots]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news \|last=Saner \|first=Emine \|date=2017-09-02 \|title=Lord of the Flies to Ocean's Eight: how Hollywood reboots are flipping gender \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/02/lord-of-the-flies-oceans-eight-hollywood-reboots-flipping-gender \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|work=[[The Guardian]] \|language=en-GB \|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
	[[File:Wikipe-tan and Wikipe-kun.png\|thumb\|[[Wikipe-tan]] alongside a fan-made ~~genderswap~~ counterpart]]		[[File:Wikipe-tan and Wikipe-kun.png\|thumb\|[[Wikipe-tan]] alongside a fan-made gender swapped counterpart]]
	== History ==		== History ==
	Despite the prominence of the idea in films of the 2010s, the concept dates from much earlier. ''[[Radio Times]]'' critic Emma Simmonds gives the example of 1939's ''[[His Girl Friday]]'', adapted from 1928 [[Broadway theatre\|Broadway]] play ''[[The Front Page]]'', in which the gender of character Hildy Johnson is switched from male to female.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Simmonds \|first=Emma \|title=From Ocean's 8 to Ghostbusters: a history of Hollywood's gender swap movie trend {{!}} Radio Times \|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/oceans-8-movie-gender-swap-hollywood/ \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|website=[[Radio Times]] \|language=en-GB}}</ref>		Despite the prominence of the idea in films of the 2010s, the concept dates from much earlier. ''[[Radio Times]]'' critic Emma Simmonds gives the example of 1939's ''[[His Girl Friday]]'', adapted from 1928 [[Broadway theatre\|Broadway]] play ''[[The Front Page]]'', in which the gender of character Hildy Johnson is switched from male to female.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Simmonds \|first=Emma \|title=From Ocean's 8 to Ghostbusters: a history of Hollywood's gender swap movie trend {{!}} Radio Times \|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/oceans-8-movie-gender-swap-hollywood/ \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|website=[[Radio Times]] \|language=en-GB}}</ref>

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	{{Short description\|Technique in fiction}}		{{Short description\|Technique in fiction}}
	A '''gender flip''' or '''gender swap''' is a technique in [[fiction]] in which characters are portrayed as a different [[gender]] from the one as which they were originally written.<ref name=":1">{{Citation \|last=Perkins \|first=Claire \|chapter=Ghost Girls: Ghostbusters, Popular Feminism and the Gender-Swap Reboot \|date=2020-09-15 \|title=Film Reboots \|pages=157–170 \|chapter-url=https://academic.oup.com/edinburgh-scholarship-online/book/37684/chapter/332013799 \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|publisher=[[Edinburgh University Press]] \|language=en \|doi=10.3366/edinburgh/9781474451369.003.0011 \|isbn=978-1-4744-5136-9\|chapter-url-access=subscription}}</ref> It is commonly used in film [[remake]]s or [[Reboot (fiction)\|reboots]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news \|last=Saner \|first=Emine \|date=2017-09-02 \|title=Lord of the Flies to Ocean's Eight: how Hollywood reboots are flipping gender \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/02/lord-of-the-flies-oceans-eight-hollywood-reboots-flipping-gender \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|work=[[The Guardian]] \|language=en-GB \|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>		A '''gender flip''' or '''gender swap''' is a technique in [[fiction]] in which characters are portrayed as a different [[gender]] from the one as which they were originally written.<ref name=":1">{{Citation \|last=Perkins \|first=Claire \|chapter=Ghost Girls: Ghostbusters, Popular Feminism and the Gender-Swap Reboot \|date=2020-09-15 \|title=Film Reboots \|pages=157–170 \|chapter-url=https://academic.oup.com/edinburgh-scholarship-online/book/37684/chapter/332013799 \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|publisher=[[Edinburgh University Press]] \|language=en \|doi=10.3366/edinburgh/9781474451369.003.0011 \|isbn=978-1-4744-5136-9\|chapter-url-access=subscription}}</ref> It is commonly used in film [[remake]]s or [[Reboot (fiction)\|reboots]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news \|last=Saner \|first=Emine \|date=2017-09-02 \|title=Lord of the Flies to Ocean's Eight: how Hollywood reboots are flipping gender \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/02/lord-of-the-flies-oceans-eight-hollywood-reboots-flipping-gender \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|work=[[The Guardian]] \|language=en-GB \|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
	[[File:Wikipe-tan and Wikipe-kun.png\|thumb\|Wikipe-tan alongside ~~her~~ genderswap counterpart~~, Wikipe-kun~~]]		[[File:Wikipe-tan and Wikipe-kun.png\|thumb\|[[Wikipe-tan]] alongside a fan-made genderswap counterpart]]
	== History ==		== History ==
	Despite the prominence of the idea in films of the 2010s, the concept dates from much earlier. ''[[Radio Times]]'' critic Emma Simmonds gives the example of 1939's ''[[His Girl Friday]]'', adapted from 1928 [[Broadway theatre\|Broadway]] play ''[[The Front Page]]'', in which the gender of character Hildy Johnson is switched from male to female.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Simmonds \|first=Emma \|title=From Ocean's 8 to Ghostbusters: a history of Hollywood's gender swap movie trend {{!}} Radio Times \|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/oceans-8-movie-gender-swap-hollywood/ \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|website=[[Radio Times]] \|language=en-GB}}</ref>		Despite the prominence of the idea in films of the 2010s, the concept dates from much earlier. ''[[Radio Times]]'' critic Emma Simmonds gives the example of 1939's ''[[His Girl Friday]]'', adapted from 1928 [[Broadway theatre\|Broadway]] play ''[[The Front Page]]'', in which the gender of character Hildy Johnson is switched from male to female.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Simmonds \|first=Emma \|title=From Ocean's 8 to Ghostbusters: a history of Hollywood's gender swap movie trend {{!}} Radio Times \|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/oceans-8-movie-gender-swap-hollywood/ \|access-date=2025-09-26 \|website=[[Radio Times]] \|language=en-GB}}</ref>