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For every given male character, there is a female version of that character, and vice versa.

They may be canonical. Most of them aren't. The internet has a fascination for producing gender swapping regardless of the context of the original character. Canon-derived examples of the trope tend to outlast their actual-canon inspirations (which are often single stories, or even short throwaway gags.)

No character is immune to this effect — not Darth Vader, not Master Chief — no one. note Not even Chuck Norris. Rule 61 lied to you.

Closely related to Gender Flip. When a separate character is a female knock-off of an existing male character, you have a Distaff Counterpart. Crossdressers, of course, provide their own version of this. There's a good chance that you'll see the character in question in a Gendered Outfit (like our lovely Maria at right, here).

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One of the Rules of the Internet. Can (and often does) overlap with Rule 34. Since these female versions are often much cuter than their male counterparts, it can also overlap with Self-Fanservice and Fan Disservice.

Examples

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Distaff Counterpart/Gender Flip

Anime & Manga

Comic Books

Fan Works

Literature

Live-Action TV

Red Dwarf had an entire alternate dimension where Lister, Rimmer, and Holly had female counterparts; Cat, meanwhile, had a male dog counterpart. Because dogs and cats are different genders.

Pops up every now and then on Sliders, Most notably in the episode Double Cross where there is a female counterpart of Quinn named Logan St.Clair.

The sketch TV show In Living Color! had Kelly Coffield as Andrea 'Dice' Clay.

Doctor Who has had a couple of unusual examples where due to the randomness of regeneration, it's possible for a male Time Lord to become his own distaff counterpart (as occurred when The Master regenerated and became Missy), and for a female Time Lord to become the Spear Counterpart (as occurred with the female Time Lord known as the General who spent one incarnation as a man). This finally happened to the Doctor directly, with their thirteenth incarnation being a woman.

Music

The video for "Bye Bye Beautiful" flips almost at random between portraying Nightwish and Nightwish-as-a-Girl Group (starting as the latter), with then-lead singer Annette Olzon the only member staying the same in both versions.

Tabletop Games

Video Games

Web Animation

Webcomics

Western Animation

Real Life

Among Mixed Martial Arts fandom, Cristiane "Cris Cyborg" Santos is considered to be Wanderlei Silva's female counterpart.

Gender Bending/Cross-Dressing

Anime And Manga

Comic Books

An issue of Lobo has the Main Man dying and going to the afterlife... only to be reincarnated as an extremely masculine female version of himself.

A canonical Superboy story, "Claire Kent, Alias Super-Sister" note Superboy #78 (1960) has Superboy transformed into a girl. It's not permanent ( and, as it turns out, the whole experience was just a mental illusion ), and the story is mostly forgotten today, except as another take on the Supergirl concept. Mostly. There is quite a lot of fan art, and several Fanfics, based on the premise that Clark was permanently stuck as Claire.

has Superboy transformed into a girl. It's not permanent ( ), and the story is mostly forgotten today, except as another take on the Supergirl concept. Mostly. There is quite a lot of fan art, and several Fanfics, based on the premise that Clark was permanently stuck as Claire. Loki is mentioned under Fanverse... as of Loki: Agent of Asgard Loki's genderfluidity is canon in the comics. So they will change gender at will for no other reason but because they can or feel like it, and will refer to themself as goddess (and 'she' in the third person) when in their female form and god (and 'he') when in the male one. You're welcome internet!

An S Club 7 tie-in magazine has the band interviewing a new assistant, who happens to be a witch. She demonstrates her powers by turning Jon and Bradley into 'Joni' and 'Bradie'.

Live-Action TV

Star Trek: The Original Series, in its last-aired episode, "Turnabout Intruder", tells the story of a forced Body Swap between Captain Kirk and his crazy ex-girlfriend Janice Lester. Of course, everything is sorted out at the end... though that hasn't prevented a plethora of Fan Fics, fan art, and photo manipulation about alternate scenarios where Kirk is stuck permanently in Janice's body (usually due to Janice-in-Kirk's-body being killed.)

Peter Capaldi, Doctor Who's 12th incarnation, has gone on record as saying the next incarnation of the Doctor should be a woman. They've done it with the Master, so why not? (In fact, BBC has announced a female for the next incarnation.)

Video Games

Web Original

In-universe of the That Guy with the Glasses, a female version of The Nostalgia Critic (the title card version) was dressed like a sultry-looking hooker for his review of Moulin Rouge!.

Western Animation

One particularly nice example of the Metalocalypse band getting genderbent exists here.

The fandoms tendency to swap genders for the characters of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is played with in "Magic Duel": Twilight Sparkle transforms Applejack into a stallion for a short time for a competition on who has better magical ability. It's later revealed that it was actually her brother painted in Applejack's mane and coat colors .

Fanverse

Anime And Manga

Comic Books

Film

Literature

Live Action TV

A short-lived 1991 revival of The Carol Burnett Show had a gender-flipped Star Trek sketch, so Carol could have a go at playing Captain Kirk. Take a look.

Saturday Night Live has a sketch called "What Up With That?" in which a cavalcade of groovy, costumed background folks help obnoxiously interrupt the guest's interview, whenever the host compulsively re-sings the theme song. Among them on the Christmas edition is "Grinchina". Played by Nasim Pedrad, she makes for a freaky but Cute Monster Girl.

Tabletop Games

Video Games

Webcomics

Web Original

Western Animation

Other

Every Vocaloid (including Rin and Len) and almost every UTAUloid tend to have a genderbend. In the UTAUloid's cases, many are made by the authors themselves. People have also edited their vocal files to create a masculine/feminine version of the characters.

The Female Fellowship - a counterpart to the lineup of heroes from The Lord of the Rings.

Grand Unification

Anime And Manga

Video Games

Touken Ranbu's Shokudaikiri Mitsutada is considered to be the Spear Counterpart to Tenryuu of Kantai Collection.

You know, Sieglinde Freud would have something to say about all this genderbending....