Gender flip

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Kathinka Hoppe (left) as Ganymed, the gender-flipped love interest, and Marie Le Seur as Galathee in a late 19th-century production of Die schone Galathee Kathinka Hoppe, Marie Le Seur - Tooneel-herinneringen (1900).jpg
Kathinka Hoppé (left) as Ganymed, the gender-flipped love interest, and Marie Le Seur as Galathée in a late 19th-century production of Die schöne Galathée

A gender flip [1] [2] 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.

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