![]() ![]() There's also Wasteful Days of High School Girls, a manga by Bino which has a similar tone and premise but with girls. A series of stinger skits called High School Girls are Funky features Habara, Yanagi and Ikushima, three girls who look, act and talk remarkably like their male counterparts Tadakuni, Hidenori and Yoshitake, respectively. Daily Lives of High School Boys has an interesting In-Universe use.Cutey Honey was originally created as a distaff counterpart to Warrior of Love Rainbowman.Both also happen to be badass captains who have a penchant for badass capes. Fellow space pirate Queen Emeraldas has the same scar across her face while Captain Bainas (from Ozuma) has the messy red hair. Captain Harlock has two within the works of creator Leiji Matsumoto.Black Jack = Ray, from the manga and anime series of the same name.Preyas eventually returns to Marucho while Elfin is still his guardian Bakugan and they interact a lot. They are both Aquos Bakugan who can change their attribute and they're both rather goofy. Bakugan: Elfin from New Vestroia is like a female version of Preyas from the first season.and happens to think he has really sexy hands. In chapter 98 of Ai Kora, Maeda runs into a girl named Chizuru who turns out to be a "parts lover" like him.Tropes and indexes that have Male - Female counterparts: The laws of probability and large numbers will in all likelihood turn this into Truth in Television eventually for most of us. See also Contrasting Sequel Main Character. When you take this trope to its literal conclusion, you get an Opposite-Sex Clone. If this appeals to a fan fetish, it's a form of Fanservice. If a normally gender- specific trope is played on its opposite gender anyway, that's a Gender-Inverted Trope (otherwise known as a rare male/female example). Textile Work Is Feminine that's why it's used to symbolize femininity.Ĭompare Gender Flip, which reverses roles based on gender, rather than cloning them. SECOND NOTE: A "distaff" is a spinning device, used with a spinning wheel and, even before that, with a spindle. and you'd be right, because that's what the Mars symbol is based on, too). You may also be thinking the "spear" meant something else. Since "distaff" means "female", the inverse of this (a male counterpart to an existing female character or Always Female trope) is technically and traditionally a Spear Counterpart (which was named for the spearhead-shaped end of the symbol of Mars that represents males. The implications for the character, writers, and audience are left as an exercise for the reader. If the distaff counterpart is a girlfriend, she is usually the Love Interest to the male character.Ī male character who goes through the Gender Bender will find himself turned into his own Distaff Counterpart. In other words, the male character or characters may have little or no stereotypical masculinizing gender specifiers, but his or their distaff counterpart or counterparts will have stereotypical feminizing gender specifiers to mark them as female. ![]() Often, and especially if the characters in question are animals, the female character will have a bow on her head or other Tertiary Sexual Characteristics defining her as female and to set her apart from the "default" male characters. They are often a wife or girlfriend, but can be a sister or friend to the male counterpart. This can be shown through their visual properties, narrative connection, and occasionally promotional materials. Just like how many female characters are defined by their relationship to the default or already established male character, many distaff counterparts are defined primarily by their relationship to the male counterpart. ![]()
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