Gender flip
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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 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.
References
- ^ Perkins, Claire (2020-09-15), "Ghost Girls: Ghostbusters, Popular Feminism and the Gender-Swap Reboot", Film Reboots, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 157–170, doi:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474451369.003.0011, ISBN 978-1-4744-5136-9, retrieved 2025-09-26
- ^ Saner, Emine (2017-09-02). "Lord of the Flies to Ocean's Eight: how Hollywood reboots are flipping gender". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-09-26.