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A '''gender flip'''<ref name="pdi-20220213">[[Agence France-Presse]]"[https://entertainment.inquirer.net/437545/gender-flip-of-film-classic-opens-berlin-fest-under-virus-cloud Gender flip of film classic opens Berlinale under virus cloud]", ''[[Philippine Daily Inquirer]]'', 13 February 2022.</ref><ref name="avclub-20210922">Caroline Siede. "[https://www.avclub.com/dear-evan-hansen-is-a-misfire-on-just-about-every-level-1847718189 Dear Evan Hansen is a misfire on just about every level]", avclub.com, 22 September 2021.</ref> is when a fictional character is created to have a different sex/gender in another setting or in an adaptation of a work. The Internet meme [[Rule 63]] predicts the prevalence of this.
A '''gender flip''' or '''gender swap''' is a technique in [[fiction]] in which characters are portrayed as a different [[gender]] from the one in which they were originally written.<ref>{{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}}</ref> It is commonly used in movie [[Remake|remakes]] or [[Reboot (fiction)|reboots]].<ref>{{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>


== See also ==
== See also ==
{{wiktionary|gender-flip}}
{{wiktionary|gender-flip}}
* [[Rule 63]], an [[Internet meme]] that states that, as a rule, "for every given male [[Character (arts)|character]], there is a female version of that character" and vice versa.
* [[Rule 63]], an [[Internet meme]] which states that "for every character there is a gender swapped version of that character".
* [[Cross-gender acting]], when actors or actresses portray a character of the opposite sex.
* [[Cross-gender acting]], when actors or actresses portray a character of the opposite sex.



Revision as of 13:49, 26 September 2025

Template:Short descriptionTemplate:In useTemplate:More citations needed A gender flip or gender swap is a technique in fiction in which characters are portrayed as a different gender from the one in which they were originally written.[1] It is commonly used in movie remakes or reboots.[2]

See also

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  • Rule 63, an Internet meme which states that "for every character there is a gender swapped version of that character".
  • Cross-gender acting, when actors or actresses portray a character of the opposite sex.

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