Basic Trope: Characters exchanging body parts.
- Straight: Alice and Bob switch heads due to odd circumstances.
- Exaggerated:
- Everyone switches heads.
- Alice and Bob switch various body parts.
- ''Everyone'' switches ''various'' body parts.
- Downplayed:
- Alice and Bob merely switch their own arms for their own legs without ever switching between one another.
- Alice and Bob switch kidneys.
- Alice and Bob switch hair.
- Justified:
- Alice and Bob are a robot or cyborg with Easily Detachable Robot Parts.
- A molecular teleporter accidently switched Alice and Bob's body parts due to a glitch that caused it to be confused on who's body it belongs to.
- Alice and Bob switched body parts because surgery is so advanced that it can be done on a whim.
- Alice and Bob are aliens with a Bizarre Alien Biology that allows them to do so easily.
- A Wizard Did It using either magic spell or an enchanted item.
- Body parts are swapped using Sufficiently Advanced Alien technology.
- Alice and Bob are magical creatures that are able to easily switch body parts between each other.
- Alice and Bob are undead.
- Alice and Bob switched body parts as a result of a Mad Scientist or alien experiment.
- Alice and/or Bob has the power to switch body parts.
- Inverted: Claire is immune to detaching body parts altogether.
- Subverted: Alice ends up with Bob's body while Bob remains a disembodied head and Alice's body remains headless.
- Double Subverted:
- Only for Alice's headless body to then in feeling around find his head and then place it on her body.
- Only for Charlie and Diane to come along and switch around the remaining heads/bodies.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged:
- It goes back and forth between switching body parts and leaving them separated.
- Bob has a closet full of body parts he can switch around on a whim.
- Averted: Alice and Bob do not switch any body parts.
- Enforced:
- The writer has the characters switch heads because they want the perks of a "Freaky Friday" Flip but either want to mix it up because they feel the trope itself has been a little overdone, or want to open up to unique hijinks that a "Freaky Friday" flip would not have.
- Alice and Bob are characters in a show meant to sell a line of toys with detachable and swappable body parts.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Alice makes a magician switch her lower half with Bob's.
- Exploited: Alice uses Bob's torso to understand how it feels like having a male one.
- Defied: Bob refuses to switch body parts.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: The skin on Bob's abdomen is a color that is impossible to achieve even with tanning.
- Deconstructed: ???
- Reconstructed: ???
- Played For Laughs: ???
- Played For Drama: ???
- Played For Horror:
- A mad scientist switches body parts in in a slow and gruesome manner that clearly hurts their subjects and results in the mismatched parts being stitched together in a manner full of Body Horror.
- An inventor accidently creates a murderous android look alike that then forcefully switches heads with him to gain control of both his body and the android's while all he can do is watch in horror as the robot kills people and frames him for murder, all the while the android that has his body works on creating an even more dangerous Mechanical Abomination.
