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== Literature == |
== Literature == |
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* Even though she knows who he really is, [[Action Girl]]/[[The Lancer|Lancer]] Elli Quinn from [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s ''[[Vorkosigan Saga]]'' is deeply in love with her commander, Admiral Miles Naismith—but not so enamored of his real identity Lt. Miles Vorkosigan. ("I've heard you do his accent" is as close as she can come to acknowledging it.) Her refusal to come to terms with this exasperates Miles ("I don't do his accent; he does mine") and eventually scuttles the relationship. |
* Even though she knows who he really is, [[Action Girl]]/[[The Lancer|Lancer]] Elli Quinn from [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s ''[[Vorkosigan Saga]]'' is deeply in love with her commander, Admiral Miles Naismith—but not so enamored of his real identity Lt. Miles Vorkosigan. ("I've heard you do his accent" is as close as she can come to acknowledging it.) Her refusal to come to terms with this exasperates Miles ("I don't do his accent; he does mine") and eventually scuttles the relationship. |
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** Elli explains herself as the relationship ends -- she may love Miles, but she ''hates'' Barrayar. If Miles chooses to abandon his identity of Lord Vorkosigan and emigrate with her as Admiral Naismith then they can spend the rest of their lives together, but if he chooses to stay as Lord Vorkosigan (and thus later on be Count Vorkosigan), then the woman who eventually marries him must inevitably accept her own role as Lady and then Countess Vorkosigan. Since Elli would rather yank out her own eyeballs with pliers than do that, and Miles would rather do the same than permanently abandon his home, their relationship could only last so long as Miles could postpone making a choice between which of his dual identities he'd finally have to commit to. |
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* Subverted in ''Death Sentence'' (the sequel to ''Death Wish''), Paul Benjamin starts a relationship with a court employee named Irene Evans. Her comments about the vigilante (whom she does not know as just Benjamin's alter ego) do not seem to indicate she particularly supports the vigilante. |
* Subverted in ''Death Sentence'' (the sequel to ''Death Wish''), Paul Benjamin starts a relationship with a court employee named Irene Evans. Her comments about the vigilante (whom she does not know as just Benjamin's alter ego) do not seem to indicate she particularly supports the vigilante. |
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* Averted in ''The Spider''; Nita Van Sloan supported Richard Wentworth as himself and the Spider. |
* Averted in ''The Spider''; Nita Van Sloan supported Richard Wentworth as himself and the Spider. |
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* ''[[The Scarlet Pimpernel (novel)|The Scarlet Pimpernel]]'': Marguerite Blakeney is estranged from her ditzy fop of a husband Sir Percy and in love with the brave, selfless, mysterious vigilante the Scarlet Pimpernel. Talk about some things never change... |
* ''[[The Scarlet Pimpernel (novel)|The Scarlet Pimpernel]]'': Marguerite Blakeney is estranged from her ditzy fop of a husband Sir Percy and in love with the brave, selfless, mysterious vigilante the Scarlet Pimpernel. Talk about some things never change... |
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* This becomes a major problem for Gara Petothel in ''[[X Wing Series|X-Wing: Wraith Squadron]]'', who is an imperial secret agent who likes her covert identiy as an Alliance pilot so much, she would rather like to [[Becoming the Mask|become the mask]]. Unfortunately the one pilot to show romantic interest her is the only survivor of an ambush she had set up months before. Not only did the death of all his friends traumatize him deeply, it's also his friendship to her that slowly helps him to recover. |
* This becomes a major problem for Gara Petothel in ''[[X Wing Series|X-Wing: Wraith Squadron]]'', who is an imperial secret agent who likes her covert identiy as an Alliance pilot so much, she would rather like to [[Becoming the Mask|become the mask]]. Unfortunately the one pilot to show romantic interest her is the only survivor of an ambush she had set up months before. Not only did the death of all his friends traumatize him deeply, it's also his friendship to her that slowly helps him to recover. |
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== Live Action TV == |
== Live Action TV == |
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