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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Ranma ½]]'' observes the law in more than one way:
** Once Ranma acquires his gender-changing [[Curse]], no attempt at curing it works, at least not permanently. Further, many fans have observed that he seems to attract water (which triggers the change) as easily as fiancées and rivals. However, attempts by other characters at making Ranma permanently female ''also'' fail, so this may be less the Law than [[Status Quo Is God]], a common trope in author [[Rumiko Takahashi]]'s works.
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* ''[[Shade the Changing Man]]'' had to take over the body of a drowning woman in order to stay alive himself. Overnight, it reverted to female form and could not be changed back until he found the person responsible for the woman's death. Even after solving that mystery, his female features would re-emerge from time to time until he abandoned the body to fight death on it's own terrain.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* In the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' pseudo-crossover fic ''[[Xendra]]'', this trope hits Xander with a ''vengeance''. First he's transformed into [[Xena: Warrior Princess]] on That Halloween. Then a spell performed to ''find'' the Halloween Xena lookalike briefly turns him into a teenaged Xena. Then Drusilla uses a stored spell to turn him into teen!Xena ''again''. While that's undone a few months later, Amy and Willow -- trying to learn how to store a spell in a crystal as Drusilla had used -- find their only success is with yet another instance of the spell to turn him into Xena, which leads to multiple transformations (which Willow or Amy can undo afterward). It eventually reaches a point where any time the Scoobies need an untraceable female or an extra near-slayer-level fighter, Xander's gender gets toggled. And after {{spoiler|Faith, under the influence of mind-altering magic, rapes a semiconscious Xander in both forms, Xander has to go to therapy as Xendra}} twice a week. Eventually the magical principle called the Law of Precedent (the more a particular magic has been performed, the easier it becomes to perform) takes over, and it seems that ''any'' sufficiently strong magic in Xander's vicinity will turn him into Xendra.
** Initially averted with Andrew, who was turned into a teenaged [[Star Wars|Princess Leia]], and wanted desperately to be turned ''back'' into a girl because the experience led him to acknowledge that he's [[transgender]]. However, he gets permanently transformed as part of undoing Xander's initial stint as Xendra.
** After getting caught in one of Xander's transformations, Wesley Windham-Price finds that ''he'' too is affected by the Law of Precedent and is prone to turning into "Leslie Linda Price". And when he gets involved with Tara Maclay -- a lesbian who is frightened by his male aspect -- he chooses to spend all his time with her as a woman. At the end of the story he chooses to be a woman full time, and lets his male identity "die".
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Goodbye Charlie]]'': a male chauvinist lady killer is killed by his latest conquest's husband, and returns as Debbie Reynolds.
* ''[[Switch (film)|Switch]]'': a male chauvinist lady killer is killed by his ex-lovers and returns as Ellen Barkin.
== [[Literature]] ==
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** Becoming a woman is a possible effect of a scroll mishap in D&D 3.0, so s/he may have found an actual lich-turning scroll and just messed up during the casting. Also, a possible effect of wild magic. For that matter, in canon Elminster was indeed given a spell that does this (though it's not clear whether caster-only or not)…
* Averted in MUDs, where one of the standard status effects is a Gender Bender (which really doesn't do anything in-game except change your pronoun), which affects both genders equally and wears off in a few minutes. Usually.
* ''[[Might and Magic|Might & Magic 2]]'' has two magical fountains that change a party member's gender, one of them male-to-female and the other the opposite; the male-to-female one only hints as to what it does (it is labeled "eraweb selam") and also warns that should a party member use it, it will be completely irreversible. {{spoiler|[[Subverted Trope|This is not true]] - to reverse the process, you simply have to find and use the other fountain.}}
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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** Lord Sykos shows up and goes on a gender-changing spree across town, happily encouraged by his first victim "Aimee". At the end of the story arc he turns all his victims back to normal ''except'' Aimee who decides she prefers being Sykos' [[Perky Female Minion]] to her former existence. As we don't get to see much of "his" life before the transformation we're given no real motivation for this decision.
{{quote|'''Aimee:''' "Seriously, Anne, don't ruin this for me."}}
{{quote|Where am I? Why do I have tacos? ...And why am I a girl?}}
* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', while not as casual or frequent about it as ''[[The Wotch]]'', certainly pays the Law its dues. According to the rules governing the comic's main sex-changing phlebotinum, only male-to-female sex changes can be made permanent (via [[Mister Seahorse|pregnancy]]); female-to-male sex changes, even of someone trapped by pregnancy (for whom it's only even possible afterwards), cannot exceed a 30 day time limit. The second time a boy - the ''main character'' - is turned into a girl the device breaks, leaving "her" stuck for the full thirty days, and the attempt to get around this leaves him with an [[Opposite Gender Clone]] ''and'' the permanent ability to change sex at will, something the rules of magic eventually ''force'' him to do on a regular basis.
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