Gender flip
Template:Short descriptionTemplate:In useA 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]
According to The Guardian, one of the most high profile examples of this is the 2016 remake of the 1984 movie Ghostbusters.[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.
References
- ↑ Perkins, Claire (2020-09-15), Ghost Girls: Ghostbusters, Popular Feminism and the Gender-Swap Reboot, Edinburgh University Press, doi:, ISBN 978-1-4744-5136-9, https://academic.oup.com/edinburgh-scholarship-online/book/37684/chapter/332013799, retrieved on 2025-09-26
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Saner, Emine (2017-09-02). "Lord of the Flies to Ocean’s Eight: how Hollywood reboots are flipping gender" (in en-GB). The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/02/lord-of-the-flies-oceans-eight-hollywood-reboots-flipping-gender.