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== [[Film]] ==
* Used as a bit of a joke in the film of ''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)|Harry Potter
== [[Literature]] ==
* Terry Pratchett's [[Discworld]] novel ''[[
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* In a two-part episode of ''[[WKRP in Cincinnati]]'' Disc Jockey Dr. Johnny Fever falls into an alter-ego (Rip Tide) a shallow host of a Disco-themed t.v. show. This provides him with more fame and a larger fanbase but it also causes him to give into his urge to exploit his fame to satisfy his basest desires.
* In the Season two Episode ''A Many Splendored Thing'' of the show ''[[Homicide: Life on the Street]]'' uptight detective Tim Bayliss investigates a murder that involved participants of an SM sex club. The end of the episode finds him having purchased a kinky-looking jacket strolling along Baltimore's infamous sex strip "The Block"
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* On ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Willow gets a little fed up with her reputation as Old Reliable and flirts with danger a bit by doing a dark incantation with Anya. It doesn't end very well.
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* As old as [[Shakespeare]]: in ''[[Twelfth Night]]'', the rigid Puritan Malvolio lets it all hang out by dressing in flamboyant fashions meant for somebody twenty years younger and protests his love for his shocked female employer.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* There was an episode of ''[[X-Men: Evolution]]'' titled "Walk On The Wild Side" that played with this trope. It involved all the X-girls and Boom-Boom forming a vigilante crime fighting group, even Jean who was the responsible one.
* Susie in ''[[All Grown Up!]]'' gets told she's too perfect by the popular girls and decides to go bad for the episode. [[Bitch With a Heart of Gold|'''Angelica''']] of all people tells her to calm down.
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** In another episode, Lisa becomes a delinquent after getting "Homemaker" in an [[Inept Aptitude Test]] and being told that she'll never become a professional Jazz musician due to her stubby fingers. This culminates with her committing an expulsion worthy offense (stealing all of the teachers' guides) to which Bart takes the fall, not wanting her to ruin her life.
== Other Media ==
* When a middle aged man does this it's sometimes said that they're going through a "[[wikipedia:Midlife crisis|Midlife crisis]]".
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