Basic Trope: A character is an opposite gender in the adaptation that they are in the original.
- Straight: Alice and Bob become Alex and Barb in the adaptation.
- Exaggerated: All the characters have their genders changed.
- Downplayed: The originally female Alice becomes the nonbinary Alex.
- Justified: The adaptation is a modern retelling of a story focused on a profession that was virtually Always Male in the past, but is more mixed today. The gender breakdown of the main cast in the original would come off as unrealistic in the new setting.
- Subverted:
- The first episode features a male character named Alex... who turns out to be a non-gender-flipped Alice in disguise.
- Barb is actually Bob's Canon Foreigner sister, not a gender-flip of him.
- Double Subverted:
- The experience leads "Alice" to have an LGBT Awakening as a trans man, becoming Alex for real.
- While Barb and Bob both exist in the adaptation, it becomes clear that Barb is more closely based on the Bob from the original than the adaptation's "Bob" is.
- Averted: Nobody's gender is changed in the adaptation.
- Enforced: The original was targeted towards men whereas the adaptation was made for women.
- Discussed: "They never would have said that if you were a woman, Alex."
- Conversed: "Wasn't she a man in the books?"
- Implied: Barb has some similarities with Bob and could be read as a gender-flipped version of him, but she might also just be an original character.
- Deconstructed: Alex and Barb are treated differently by other characters and society than their original counterparts, facing all kinds of new obstacles while many of the old ones are absent. Plot elements from the original play out completely differently, or just don't work at all anymore, showing how ubiquitous gender double standards are.
- Reconstructed: Alex and Barb overcome their struggles with the help of their True Companions who see them as individuals and not just gender stereotypes.
