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* Kurau from ''[[Kurau Phantom Memory]]''. She's very mannish and wears masculine clothing most of the time, the only thing usually giving her away is her voice. Of course, when she pretends to be a man to bodyguard a guy at his wedding, she disguises her voice perfectly.

* June from ''[[Coyote Ragtime Show]]''. She's the knife-fighter.

** Haruka Tenou (Sailor Uranus) is modeled on a real-life [[Takarazuka]] character. While this is less emphasized after her introduction in the comic, it made her very distinctive in promotional materials by adding some variety, and eventually [[Character Exaggeration|became her major character trait]] in the show adaptation.

** The Sailor Starlights from the final season also qualify under this trope, although the original mundane explanation seems inexplicably avoided.

** Ukyou, but only around the time of her introduction. From the moment she puts aside her grudge with Ranma and Genma, she gets girlier as the series progresses.

** Likewise, Ryuunosuke from ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'', Ukyou and [[Gender Bender|Ranma]]'s [[Expy|authorical ancestor]].

* ''[[Simoun]]'': Paraietta, especially impressive given the [[Gender Bender|premise of the show]]. Though the outfit and her physique don't fit the trope. It's more the attitude and facial features.

* Likewise, Maria Tachibana and Kanna Kirishima from ''[[Sakura Taisen]]'' are tall and have husky voices, so they usually play male roles in their musical productions.

** Later we get Leni Milchstrasse, who is petite and waifish and talks like a boy.

* In ''[[Kare Kano]]'', Maho Izawa is cast in a play as an [http://i50.tinypic.com/9qa0pz.jpg android bishounen].

* ''[[Hana Kimi]]'': Originally a pretty girl, Mizuki made a good Bifauxnen when she cross-dressed to go to an all-boy school. There, she is revered as a pretty boy. However, when she went back home for the holidays, her father mistook her for a boy upon seeing her with her short boyish hairstyle (not to mention, she was pretty flat too).

** Sir Integra. Back when most people's exposure to ''Hellsing'' came through the TV series, [[Viewer Gender Confusion|some people were genuinely confused as to her gender]], despite a flashback episode in which, as a young girl, she is clearly shown wearing female clothing. The manga and OVA actually begin with this flashback, making such confusion nigh on impossible.

** Heinkel Wolfe, at least in the "Crossfire" manga extras.

* Juliet Fiamatta Asto Capulet in ''[[Romeo X Juliet]]'' dresses as a boy named Odin to disguise her connection to the Capulet family line, as the last surviving member is known to be female. Small subversion, though: after Juliet learns of her heritage, she's allowed to wear dresses and let her hair down when she's in the Capulet headquarters and away from intruders, and she seems to take it in stride. {{spoiler|And once Juliet's identity is revealed to the public and ''everyone'' knows who she truly is, she just doesn't bother with boyish disguises anymore.}}

* Rina from ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]'' is more [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]] than anything, but she wears the male uniform, and upon her introduction in the anime, Lucia and Hanon wonder, "That was a girl... ''right''?"

*** Red still thinks she's a guy... for about a year... causing some awkward tension with Misty...and setting up for the best reaction in the entire manga when she finally takes the hat off in front of him.

** Also from the anime, Aoi/Angie in Diamond and Pearl. Gruff voice, [[Bokukko|very butch appearance and speech patterns]], a [[Big Eater|big appetite that rivals the shounen hero]] and was not known to be female until she yelled "haven't you ever heard of ladies first?!"

** The tomboyish Nozomi/Zoey also counts. For added effect, she always wears suits in when competing in contests.

* Millie Thompson from ''[[Trigun]]''.

* Haruhi from ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' mostly doesn't care if she's taken for male or not and often dresses in feminine clothing when she's not at school... but since the rest of the Host Club is determined to keep her gender a secret, she wears a male school uniform. (Not helped by how she actually wore the male uniform ''before'' joining the club, since it was cheaper than the girl's one.) Note she is considered to fill the "boy so pretty [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|he could be a girl]]" demographic to the unknowing club customers.

** Benio "Benibara" Amakusa of St. Lobelia Girls' Academy's Takarazuka Club, meanwhile, is a fully intentional example.

** In ''Negima?! Neo'', they swap roles: Setsuna is the [[Yamato Nadeshiko]] in a luxurious kimono, Konoka is the Bifauxnen and wears a [[The Shinsengumi|Shinsengumi uniform]]. But nobody makes any comment, because the only other girl around turns out to be [[Psycho Lesbian|Tsukuyomi]]...

** Both Setsuna and Kaede wear men's-style suits fairly often in the Magical World arc, [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v28/c258/7.html even to a formal ball]. However, nobody has confused Kaede with a man.

* Kiri from ''Never Give Up!'' ended up with the looks of her father. Furthermore, to follow her love interest, she gets hired as a ''male'' model.

** Her masculine features are emphasized by her love interest, Tohya, being an ''effeminate-looking'' boy. This is often joked about by Kiri's friend, Natsu:

'''Natsu:''' Prince Kiri and Princess Tohya. You'd be best couple in the yearbook, for sure! }}

* The [[Viewer Gender Confusion|viewers weren't the only ones who were confused with the gender]] of the boyish Otto from ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]''. In the [[All There in the Manual|supplementary manga]] that featured the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|Numbers]], it's revealed that most of the Numbers themselves were also unsure whether Otto's a man or a woman, and [[Smug Snake|Quattro]] ordered the few who do know to keep a tight-lip about it.

** And in the post-StrikerS [[Time Skip]], {{spoiler|she's now working as a [[Battle Butler|butler]] for the Belkan Saint Church}}, complete with matching suit.

* In ''Himegami'', there's several bifauxnen hiding almost in plain sight. The protagonist Hyou is one, though the women she protects all know. The primary villain, a French noble named Gawain, very surprisingly turns out to be one after everyone but her servants leave her home, and she undresses to be waited on hand and foot. That suit hides her bust very well.

* Averted in ''[[Angelic Layer]]'', since Sai apparently wears a long skirt.

* ''[[They Are My Noble Masters]]'': Averted was Natose, who is a semi-bifauxnen, the only thing is she has boobies (huge ones in fact), and she wears panties under her clothes.

* ''Ice Revolution'' - tomboy Masaki is getting tired of constantly being mistaken for a boy (her short [[Anime Hair]], preference for tracksuits, masculine speaking style, aggressive nature, amazing strength and fighting skills, in-denial dojo-owning father and two brothers, one of whom [[Half-Identical Twins|looks just like her]] don't help) gets inspired by ''figure skating'' after trying to find the only boy who's seen her in a girl's uniform in order to thank him after he [[Crash Into Hello|saves her from a truck]]. Unfortunately the coach who discovers her believes he's found the next great ''male'' figure skater. It takes another two chapters before that's cleared up and {{spoiler|a [[Wholesome Crossdresser]] gives her beauty advice}}.

* Shadow in ''[[Godannar]]'' manages to cross the line all the way to "are you ''sure'' she's not a man?" despite having an obviously female body. This is because she manages to be one of the few pilots {{spoiler|to contract the Insania Virus, which is supposed to primarily affect ''men''.}}

*** Brought up more directly in a sketch where Hungary dons a nice male outfit, ties her hair in a ponytail and strikes a [[Knight in Shining Armor]] pose for a Liechtenstein with [[Long Hair Is Feminine|long hair]] and a cute [[Pimped-Out Dress]].

* ''[[W Juliet]]'': You would never know Miura Ito was a girl unless she told you, especially at the beginning of the manga. Likewise, [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|her boyfriend Makoto makes a gorgeous woman]], to the point where {{spoiler|all of his male classmates are in denial when they find out the truth at the end of the manga.}} Ito is constantly given male roles in the school drama club (their teacher is apparently a huge Takarazuka fan), and the one time she was cast as the female lead it was supposed to be a comedy version of Swan Lake, with Makoto as the hansom prince.

* [[No Name Given|Tomokane]] of ''[[GA Geijutsuka Art Design Class]]'' is so masculine to the level that she's easily [[Viewer Gender Confusion|passed off as a boy]] with ''girl's school uniforms''.

* A character in ''Monochrome Factor'' who is employed at Master's bar looks perfectly male as his shirt is always half open and you can see he (she) has a flat chest. However, after he {{spoiler|goes a little crazy after telling Maya he (she) is actually a girl and Mayu rejects him, then is possessed by kokuchi}} she (he) seems to develop rather large breasts...

* Mashiro Ichijo's gender identity is a key part of the plot of the manga [[After School Nightmare]].

* [[Manhwa]] examples:

** ''Love in the Mask'': The heroine is a bodyguard to a wealthy girl and had to become a boy because "a female bodyguard wouldn't be taken seriously" (despite living with her charge there's no chance of [[Bodyguard Crush]] since they're [[Like Brother and Sister]]). Apparently it's not too successful since a character who only recently returned to Korea and never met her promptly addresses her with a female honorific and asks if everyone in the entire school is blind.

* {{spoiler|Akito}} from ''[[Fruits Basket]]'' {{spoiler|actively fooling people into thinking she's a man. Helps that she has a very similar hair cut to Yuki's. Does not apply in the anime where Akito is obviously male.}}

* Kaori Makimura from [[City Hunter]] is often mistaken for a handsome dude, sometimes by all the pretty girls that [[Chivalrous Pervert|Ryo Saeba]] is chasing.

* Subverted in [[Gundam Seed]]. During her first appearance, Cagalli is dressed in rather boyish clothes but does ''not'' do anything specific to hide her gender. People just ''assume'' she's a boy..

* Interestingly, another Itsuki is assumed to be this at first in ''[[The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'', but the title character quickly decides that "for now, he looked male".

* [[Half Prince|1/2 Prince]] has a variation. The main character is a girl who takes on the role of a male in a virtual reality MMORPG, very few people see through the disguise, and what few do only manage to do so after she gives herself away.

* Ryo Kuromatsu in the manga ''The Magic Touch.'' She looks so much like a boy that even when she wears girl clothes, she looks like a guy wearing girl's clothes. Most characters in the manga know she's a girl, though.

* {{spoiler|Melk the Second}} from ''[[Toriko]]''. Done so she can become the apprentice of her adopted father, {{spoiler|the first Melk}}.

* Actually a plot point for the [[Girls Love]] manga [[Gokujou Drops]]. Turns out a boy Komari made a childhood promise with years ago {{spoiler|was her current squeeze Yukio}}

* ''[[Change 123]]'' gives us {{spoiler|Ginga}} who is easily mistaken for a boy, what with running around shirtless, and having a flat chest due to her muscle structure. It takes an accidental peek at her preparing for the bath (and later [[It Makes Sense in Context|Kousukegawa getting his face pressed against her crotch after falling off the roof]]) for her to admit she's a girl.

* Shu from [[Flower Flower]].

* Chizuru from ''[[Wandering Son]]'' counts at times. She typically looks feminine when in casual wear, but whenever she decides to crossdress in a boy's uniform she does looks like a [[Bishonen]] with long hair. She's gained the attention of a few girls too.

* Eureka looks almost like a male in her soccer attire in episode 39 of [[Eureka Seven]] thanks to her hair loss.

* Jun Kamigamo from [[Natsu no Arashi]] looks unquestionably like a male until the reveal of her true gender.

* Shizu from ''[[Maria Holic]]''. She's Mariya's [[Half Identical Twin]] who's going to an all-boys school; a perfect parallel to Mariya who's a [[Villainous Crossdresser]] who goes to an all-girl school.

* ''[[Houou Gakuen Misoragumi]]'' looks very much like a boy; she doesn't even have a chest bump when wearing clothing, male or female. She fits connmpletely in at her All-Boys school, which is full of [[Bishonen]].

* The entire main cast of ''[[Ai Ore Love Me]]'' is made up of girls who look like men.. Well, most of the main cast. The one boy [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|looks like a girl]].

* [[Idol Singer|Sheryl Nome]] from ''[[Macross Frontier]]'' does this for some of her concerts as a costume while singing (and cleans up quite well). Is quite [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] considering her love interest [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|"Princess" Alto]].

* Haruka Hiroko in the second story of ''Himitsu Kichi''.

 

== Art ==

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* In the early [[Star Wars Expanded Universe|Star Wars comics]], the ones [[Marvel Star Wars|produced by Marvel]], there was a prince who went to Luke Skywalker for help; later in the arc it was revealed that [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Vila this character] was that prince's twin sister, as the prince himself had died. In order to keep her planet's morale up, she'd needed to keep his death a secret. At the end of the arc the princess also died, and the two of them met Yoda in the afterlife - the princess was clearly shorter and somewhat narrower-shouldered than her brother, but still fairly androgynous. Without looking at the word balloons, it's actually rather difficult to tell that she's female.

* Carrie Kelley, the successor to the Robin mantle in ''[[The Dark Knight Returns]]'', is mistaken for a boy by the police. Somewhat of an inversion on how Robins on New Earth are either mistaken for or portrayed in other media as girls.

 

* The title character of ''[[Fanfic/Irya Sheen Ace Attorney|Irya Sheen Ace Attorney]]'' notes she used to wear pants, but after being mistaken for a boy enough times, she settled on a skirt.

 

== Film ==

* In ''[[Victor Victoria]]'', the title character is played by Julie Andrews. Female both in real life and in the movie, she plays the eponymous Victor, an ostensibly male drag queen. Part of the plot is fueled by various women being very attracted to "Victor" (as a subplot, a few of the male characters have a [[Stupid Sexy Flanders]] reaction to "him.")

* The actress [[Tilda Swinton]], who started her career by ''living'' this trope. She is attractive to both genders, while being androgynous enough to apply for [[Even the Girls Want Her]] ''and'' [[Even the Guys Want Him]], depending on the character.

** Orlando from the film ''[[Orlando]]'', who begins as an androgynous man in the 16th century, becomes ageless, and later changes sex into an androgynous woman.

** Also a feature in many of Tilda's glamour shots. There are several which try to make half of her look like a woman and half of her look like a man. It's strangely attractive.

* [[Tomboyish Name|Johnny]] (Jane Birkin) from ''Je T'aime Moi Non Plus''. She ends up giving the gay protagonist Krassky (Joe Dallesandro) a major case of [[Stupid Sexy Flanders]] after subjecting him to an [[Unsettling Gender Reveal]].

* [[Cate Blanchett]] playing... er... "not Bob Dylan" ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]) in ''[[I'm Not There]]''. [[Fetish Fuel]] ensued. Suffice it to say that Cate makes a rather hot guy. The fact that her voice is very much on the huskier end of the scale helped.

* Imogen Stubbs, as Viola/Cesario in the 1996 adaptation of ''[[Twelfth Night]]''. Olivia's infatuation is ''completely'' understandable...

* Yitzhak in ''[[Hedwig and The Angry Inch]]'' is played by a woman, has an obviously feminine voice, is a former [[Drag Queen]], and looks like a scruffy young man. And is very cute.

* Jack in ''[[Pitch Black]]" was androgynous.

* In one of the interrogation scenes in ''[[The Dark Knight]]'', [[Maggie Gyllenhaal]], known for ''occasionally'' dancing around the rim of Bifauxness, wears an outfit that makes her look vaguely like [[David Bowie]].

* [[Noomi Rapace]] as [[The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo|Lisbeth Salander]] is another dark example.

 

== Literature ==

* In Anne Rice's ''[[The Vampire Chronicles|The Vampire Lestat]]'' The Vampirized Gabrielle, Lestat's mom usually adopts male clothing and hair style to be free to do as she wished. During the time (late 18th century) it was difficult for women to get away with living so independently, so she does this for practical reasons.

* Nan Astley and Kitty Butler, of ''[[Tipping the Velvet]]''. Both are male impersonators in late Victorian England.

* Jame from ''[[Chronicles of the Kencyrath]]'' is mistaken for a boy on a regular basis, is declared to be officially a boy in a fair few contexts throughout the books, and is mistaken constantly for her twin brother.

** Subverted at one point in ''God Stalk'': The courtesan Melissand—who's flirting with her at the time—is entirely aware that Jame is a girl, is amused that Jame thought otherwise, and [[Bi the Way|doesn't]] particularly [[Even the Girls Want Her|care]].

* Leisl in the [[Ravenloft]] novel ''Vampire of the Mists'' is a thief who dresses as a boy to survive better on the streets.

* {{spoiler|Kitai}} from Jim Butcher's [[Codex Alera]], partly to do with the fact that she's an underage Marat with vaguely boyish features (until they come of age, Marat wear baggy tunics and aren't acknowledged to actually have any biological sex except in the academic sense). Tavi doesn't much care for her initially, because she was kind of hostile for little apparent reason, but once he realizes she's a girl, he starts to notice she's kind of pretty.

 

== Live Action TV ==

* Jade Dimagiba/Yuan Sy from ''[[My Binondo Girl]]''.

** Actually she comes off quite sexy and clearly female right from the start...but this is Max we're talking about.

* The recurring skitcom character, "Pat" from ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' was based on this trope. Played by a female actor (Julia Sweeny), nobody (including the audience) ever found out if Pat was male or female.

* A meta-example: An androgynous character in an episode of ''[[Bones]]'' is revealed to be male near the end of the episode. However, the character was played by a woman, so any audience members fooled by the episode's reveal would have this reaction when discovering the identity of the actress.

** Also in the commentary it is mentioned that they filmed the ending (boy vs girl) both ways - so not even the actors themselves knew if she was supposed to be a male or female until it was edited together.

 

 

== Music ==

* Elly Jackson of [[La Roux]] often invokes this.

 

 

* [[Older Than Steam]]: Viola in ''[[Twelfth Night]]'' and Rosalind from ''[[As You Like It]]'', both by [[Shakespeare]]. Interestingly, this means the trope is [[Zig Zagged]] since, in Shakespeare's time, males played ''all'' the roles...[[Dude Looks Like a Lady|including the female ones]]. Thus, when these plays were first performed, you had [[Recursive Crossdressing|guys playing girls that were pretending to be guys]].

* Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap." Miss Casewell's masculine appearance and voice is one of many misdirections Christie uses to keep her audience guessing.

 

 

== Video Games ==

* ''[[Bloodline Champions]]'' has the Nomad bloodline's Officer outfit. There's has cleavage on her, but otherwise looks very androgynous. There's a piercing under their lip which one could mistake for a soul patch.

* Razzy, a major supporting character in the [[Needs More Love|underrated game]] ''[[Summon Night]]: Swordcraft Story'' is very [[Ambiguous Gender|ambiguously gendered]] (To characters anyways, she's first introduced as another character's "niece"). In fact, throughout a good chunk of the game, the player character and various NPCs think that Razzy is a boy. One NPC even comments that Razzy will be a handsome man when he grows up. Coupled with this boyish look is that, out of the five available weapons in the game (sword, axe, spear, knuckles, and drills), Razzy uses knuckles. Also adding confusion is that it is hinted that (read:Immediately starts addressing you as [[Onee-Sama]] and directly wonders if two girls can get married), while playing as the female option, Pratty, Razzy will [[Ho Yay|acquire a crush on you]].

** [http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff33/FinalFantasyBrasil/FFV/YoshitakaAmano/FF5FarisScherwizb.jpg This] is what Amano originally drew her as. The SNES's graphics messed the twist up.

** {{spoiler|Disturbingly enough, Izanami's human form looks a lot like the Protagonist, despite being a woman, and looks even more boyish in the manga.}}

* Wriggle Nightbug of ''[[Touhou]]'', the ''only'' member of the [[Loads and Loads of Characters|massive cast]] with both short hair and pants, leading to a lot of [[Viewer Gender Confusion]] and subsequent jokes about other characters mistaking her for male.

** It gets better: ''Ten Desires'' have Mononobe no Futo, who wears ''male'' onmyouji attire, and Toyosatomimi no Miko, who's based on a real male historical figure, with a hefty dose of masculine arrogance.

** An obligatory PC-98 example, Meira from ''Story of Eastern Wonderland'', whose demands to fight Reimu for her powers were mistaken for a proposal by Reimu... [[Les Yay|and accepted]]. Meira clarifying her gender [[Mistaken for Gay|didn't help]].

* From ''[[Infinite Undiscovery]]'': {{spoiler|Vic's true gender soon becomes fairly obvious, with several hints shortly after Vic joins your party.}}

* Leo from ''[[Tekken]] 6''. Short hair, check. Masculine name, check. Masculine outfit, big check (includes a white masculine tuxedo).

** And since Leo has a deliberate [[Ambiguous Gender]] (to the extent that not even the developers know), it'd be a Bifauxnen if Leo was a girl, but a Bishonen if Leo was a boy! Argh!

** [[Word of God|Harada]] recently confirmed this to be true; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvzFEKWzN8k Leo is a woman and her real name is Eleonora.]

* Chris in ''[[Princess Waltz]]''. She not only dresses like a boy, and has the interest of all the girls; she was told she was supposed to be born a boy and [[Gender Bender|plans to become one through magic]]. Even after she starts [[H-game|sleeping with the main character]], her ultimate goal doesn't change. Somehow Chris' gender isn't obvious to Arata after the second chapter. No, not even after seeing her in the bath.

* ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 2''.

** [[Action Girl|Olga Gurlukovich]]. She has shorter hair than either male protagonist, wears masculine military clothes, and, at one point, a male character (admittedly, the resident [[Bishonen]]) is mistaken for her. {{spoiler|She also pulls off a [[Samus Is a Girl]] as the Ninja.}}

*** I wouldn't say that to her face, though.

** ''Peace Walker'' has Strangelove, with her short hair and androgynous tailored clothes.

*** Though apparently Strangelove is {{spoiler|a lesbian, and in love with The Boss}}, so I guess the look is playing into that stereotype.

* Jess from ''[[Advance Wars]]'' has a buzzcut and wears a military uniform with pants. If not for her name and some *slight* bumps in the chest region, she'd be indistinguishable from a male. The second game enhances this effect my making her carry around a somewhat phallic-looking tank shell.

* Miyako Yakumo from Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 5. She looks completely like a boy, dresses like one, fights like one and has an ambiguous voice to boot. You only realize she's female after you find out she's the Black Dragon ''[http://www.zerochan.net/334934 Priestess]''...

 

 

== [[Visual Novels]] ==

 

 

* ''[[Building 12]]'', by [[Misfile|Chris Hazelton's]]: [[Gender Blender Name|Alex]]. She was selected to an exclusive program to fill a diversity quota because her application was smudged and they thought she was a guy (it gets mostly female applicants), so now she's pretending to be male.

* Vivian from ''[[My Life in Blue]]''.

* [[Butch Lesbian|Wilhelm]] from ''[[Boobs Ahoy]]'', who gets mistaken for a boy so frequently that its practically a [[Running Gag]]. Conversely, her co-star Captain Clover doesn't look much like a boy, she just [[The Ladette|acts like one]].

* {{spoiler|An}} from ''Footloose''.

* Part of an [[Instant Cosplay Surprise]] (sort of) inflicted on [[Tomboyish Name|Alex]] by Lita in ''Cheer!'' for their "date". [[Les Yay|Don't think she didn't have an agenda there.]]

* Brooke Lynn of ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'' is one complete with 'That guy from summer camp.' Cue [[Cross-Popping Veins]] and possible [[Berserk Button]].

** And now she's [[Gender Reveal|surprised]] at least [http://www.meekcomic.com/2010/12/30/3-20/ one person in-universe.]

* Pieta of ''[[The Watcher of Yaathagggu]]'' due to her fairly androgynous figure, the clothing she wears and the lack of other characters addressing her for most of the first chapter.

* Berri from ''[[Fiyora Nya]]''.

* Katt o' Nine Tails from ''[[Spinnerette]]''.

Zala: "Do not mock her so. It is not her fault if she looks like a man... a very pretty man." }}

 

== Web Original ==

* Dacey Ashcroft of ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' version 3 is described as being very ambiguous in gender - especially since she is very tall for a girl and in general, just doesn't act 'girly'. That she deliberately perpetrates this charade doesn't help matters for the confused.

** Similarly, [[Diamanda Hagan]] as Aleister D. Homelesssb’sterrd. Let's just say she's not the most convincing Drag King ever.

* During one ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'' story, a new hero named The Rook joined the Global Guardians. It took almost a year to figure out that the team's new super''hero'' was actually a new super''heroine''.

 

== Western Animation ==

* ''[[Cybersix]]'': The title character's secret identity involves [[Clark Kenting|wearing glasses]], recombing her hair and dressing as an english teacher named Adrian (she fools everyone). She dresses in much looser clothes which hide her...impressive figure and speaks in a lower voice.

* ''[[Mulan]]''. Pretty as a girl, she passes for a feminine looking boy.

* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'': Sally Acorn is an unintentional example She is pretty much one of the only female characters in the entire franchise to dress in the same manner as the males.

* Julie d'Aubigny, "La Maupin" was a 17th century duellist and opera singer. She was raised by her father, who taught her to fence. At age 15, she seduced his employer, the Comte d'Armagnac. At 18, she escaped Paris with a young man and ended up in Marseille, where she earned money by fencing (in male clothes) and started to study singing at a music academy. She then tired of her beau and seduced a nun. This resulted in a trial (in absentia) where ''sieur'' d'Aubigny (mentioning her true gender was a bit too scandalous) was condemned for kidnapping a novice, body snatching, setting fire to the convent, and failing to appear before the tribunal. She was lated pardoned by the king and left Paris again, at the age of twenty, where she was hired by the Paris Opera as one of the first mezzosopranos. She then stayed in Paris except for a short trip to Brussels to escape the law (she had broken the duel edict when fighting for a pretty girl she met at a royal ball). In Brussels she had a affair with Maximilian Emanuel, the Elector of Bavaria (one of the German princes of the Holy Roman Empire). She came back when the king pardoned her (yes, again). She died in 1702.

* Female [[Cross Player|crossplayers]] are a particular real-life version of this trope, as groups will often pick their most masculine-looking female friends to cosplay Bishounen characters. This will often lead to bizarre situations occurring at Anime conventions, though people have generally learned not to question the gender of those entering bathrooms.

** Russian cosplayer Selfoblivion makes an [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDruPPPMK3I uncanny Jared Leto].

* [[Grace Jones]].

* "Otokoyaku" (boy role) actresses in [[Takarazuka]]. Often leading to copious amounts of [[Even the Girls Want Her]].

* [[Black Flag]] bassist Kira Roessler. Often the only thing gave it away was her affinity for wearing dresses on stage (and even then mostly for shock value) during Black Flag concerts.

* Kim and Kelley Deal. Wearing lumberjack shirts and smoking like chimneys hasn't helped.

* [[Annie Lennox]], especially during the height of [[The Eighties]] androgynous phase.

* [[Tilda Swinton]]. Oh dear lord, [http://tildastardust.tumblr.com/ Tilda Swinton.]

* [[La Roux]] singer Elly Jackson. [[Blondie Is a Band|Yes, she's not the only person involved.]]

* [[She Is the King|King of Poland]] Jadwiga of Anjou, also venerated by Catholics as Saint Hedwig.

* Radclyffe Hall, an early twentieth century [[Butch Lesbian|lesbian]] writer.

* Spanish [[Nun-Too-Holy|ex-nun]] and later swordsman and crossdresser Catalina de Erauzo, known as "la monja Alferez" ("The Ensign Nun").

* [http://www.austinchronicle.com/binary/1d4e/jdbeach.jpg JD Samson], in a [[Even the Girls Want Her|quite attractive way]].

* Actress and bodybuilder Skyler Cooper.

* [[Janelle Monae]], the [[Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly|genre-blurring]] [[Genki Girl]] singer, is rarely seen without her proper tux and a white starched shirt. It also helps her bifauxnen image that she has what can only be described as "epic hair."

* [[Mitsuki Saiga]], whose deep voice means the female characters she voices also tend to be Bifauxnens as well.

* Supermodel [http://misterclarencelee.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/jenny-shimizu.jpg Jenny Shimizu], who had relationships with, among others, [[Angelina Jolie]], [[Rebecca Loos]], and allegedly, [[Madonna]].

* Sinead O'Connor, who is also openly lesbian.

 

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