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** At one point in the ''[[Mad Magazine]]'' parody of ''[[Superman|Superman II]]'', Lois Lane realizes that Clark Kent is never around when Superman is, and confronts him with the obvious truth: "You're deliberately avoiding him!!"

** Lois comes ''this'' close in the original Superman movie, too, noticing that Clark never seems to be around when Superman is... no, never mind, that's just too crazy.

* There's a version of this trope in ''[[Spider-Man (~~Film~~)|Spider-Man]]''. During the {{spoiler|Norman Osborne funeral scene}}, where MJ and Peter kissed after she confessed her love for him, he told her they could only be friends. When he walks away, she has this BSOD look on her face as she touches her lips. {{spoiler|It seems she suspects who he really is.}}

* There's a version of this trope in ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man]]''. During the {{spoiler|Norman Osborne funeral scene}}, where MJ and Peter kissed after she confessed her love for him, he told her they could only be friends. When he walks away, she has this BSOD look on her face as she touches her lips. {{spoiler|It seems she suspects who he really is.}}

== Live Action TV ==

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* Also happened to Bulk and Skull in ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' whenever they came up with a [[Zany Scheme]] to discover the Rangers' identities. At no point do they ever consider the fact that there are a group of five ([[Sixth Ranger|occasionally six]]) teenagers standing nearby that only ever wear the Ranger's colors, have the same voices, and have martial arts skills.

** Averted in later series, ''[[Power Rangers Mystic Force]]'' and ''[[Power Rangers Jungle Fury]]''. Coworkers who get suspicious are eventually let in on the secret.

* One episode of ''[[~~Forever Knight (TV)|~~Forever Knight]]'' has Schanke come very close to deducing that Nick is a vampire. His investigation takes him to The Raven, where Jeanette tries to hypnotize him into dropping the idea. She fails, but when Schanke gets to CERK and talks to LaCroix, the old vampire convinces him that he's being irrational, trying to rationalize Nick's eccentricities and downplaying their partnership. Schanke gives up on convincing himself that Nick's a vampire, settling for the fact that Nick's a good cop and a good friend.

* One episode of ''[[Forever Knight]]'' has Schanke come very close to deducing that Nick is a vampire. His investigation takes him to The Raven, where Jeanette tries to hypnotize him into dropping the idea. She fails, but when Schanke gets to CERK and talks to LaCroix, the old vampire convinces him that he's being irrational, trying to rationalize Nick's eccentricities and downplaying their partnership. Schanke gives up on convincing himself that Nick's a vampire, settling for the fact that Nick's a good cop and a good friend.

** And then they [[Dropped a Bridge On Him]] to ensure that the question never came up again. He gets replaced with a girl who quickly learns that vampires are real, but never figures out that her partner is one.

** And then they [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]] to ensure that the question never came up again. He gets replaced with a girl who quickly learns that vampires are real, but never figures out that her partner is one.

* In the first episode of the second season of ''[[Hannah Montana]]'', child prodigy Rico starts high school the same day as Miley & Co. and blackmails Miley into being his girlfriend by threatening to reveal her secret. Too bad it's the wrong secret...

** In a later episode, Rico gets closer when Miley uses some of Hannah's dance moves in school. He is reminded of Hannah Montana, but plays this trope straight by deciding that Miley "isn't smart enough to pull off a double life."

* While almost all the characters in [[Merlin (TV)|Merlin]] have good reason to be completely unaware that Merlin is a warlock, you've got to wonder how [[Genre Blind]] Arthur is when he dismisses {{spoiler|Morgana's very convienent de-powering}} as a fortunate coincidence.

* While almost all the characters in [[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]] have good reason to be completely unaware that Merlin is a warlock, you've got to wonder how [[Genre Blind]] Arthur is when he dismisses {{spoiler|Morgana's very convienent de-powering}} as a fortunate coincidence.

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** Roxane: Refuses to believe every single evidence that Christian is not eloquent or that Cyrano loves her. <ref> At Act III, Roxane comments with Cyrano that sometimes, eloquence abandons Christian. Then accuses Cyrano he is jealous of Christian… because Christian is a better poet than Cyrano. Christian loses his eloquence again and Roxana rejects him, somehow, Christian get’s his eloquence again, only that Roxana notices he speaks with another voice. She doesn’t find any odd about it. At Act IV, Roxana finds strange that Christian seems shocked by the notice that she loves him for his soul instead for his beauty. Roxana then deduces… that Christian is a [[Master of Delusion]] himself!. Also, she does not find strange that Cyrano asked him three times if she could love an ugly man. Nor that at Act V the guy who visits her without fault every Saturday for 14 years could have different feelings for her than [[Just Friends]].</ref> Averted at last when she hears the same voice form 14 years ago when Cyrano reads Christian’s last love letter, at night. Justified because Roxane is a [[Daydream Believer]] who [[Serious Business|seriously wants to live a romance with a fair, witty hero]], like the D’Urfe’s novels she has read.

** Cyrano: At Act I Cyrano states that he does not believe that even an ugly woman could love him, even less beautiful Roxane. At Act IV, when Christian confronts him with Roxane confession that he would love Christian soul instead of his beauty, Cyrano doesn’t believe and answers that if he would confess, Roxane would not love him. Then Cyrano averts this trope when his cousin assures him she would love Christian even when he would be ugly…[[Rule of Three|for three times]]. Justified because [[Freudian Excuse|Cyrano]] [[Love Martyr|has]] [[Martyr Without a Cause|serious]] [[Mommy Issues|issues]].

** Averted by Christian: At Act II, Christian notices that Cyrano is too eager to be [[Playing Cyrano]]… Cyrano deceives him. At Act III, Christian feels that something with the plan is wrong… Cyrano forces him to follow the plan. At act IV, Christian finds strange that Cyrano weeps in the love letter for Roxane and that Cyrano risks his life walking through enemy lines to send letters to Roxane twice a day. [[Unwitting Pawn|Christian discovers the obvious truth]] [[Spanner in ~~The~~ Works|and forces Cyrano to tell it to Roxane]].

** Averted by Christian: At Act II, Christian notices that Cyrano is too eager to be [[Playing Cyrano]]… Cyrano deceives him. At Act III, Christian feels that something with the plan is wrong… Cyrano forces him to follow the plan. At act IV, Christian finds strange that Cyrano weeps in the love letter for Roxane and that Cyrano risks his life walking through enemy lines to send letters to Roxane twice a day. [[Unwitting Pawn|Christian discovers the obvious truth]] [[Spanner in the Works|and forces Cyrano to tell it to Roxane]].

== Western Animation ==

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'''Frieda''': You don't think...<br />

'''Daisy''': No, it couldn't be. }}

* In the 2002 ''[[He Man and ~~The~~ Masters of ~~The~~ Universe]]'' remake, one episode ends with Teela questioning why a dragon spared He-Man's life after beating him in a fight. When it is suggested that it did so because its life had been saved earlier that day, she points out that it was ''Adam'' who saved it, not He-Man. Man-At-Arms is only able to maintain the [[Masquerade]] by hastily turning the situation into an [[Aesop]].

* In the 2002 ''[[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]]'' remake, one episode ends with Teela questioning why a dragon spared He-Man's life after beating him in a fight. When it is suggested that it did so because its life had been saved earlier that day, she points out that it was ''Adam'' who saved it, not He-Man. Man-At-Arms is only able to maintain the [[Masquerade]] by hastily turning the situation into an [[Aesop]].

* Played with in one episode of ''[[Batman ~~the~~ Animated Series]]''. Newly released from Arkham, Harley Quinn is [[Villains Out Shopping|out shopping]] when she runs into Bruce Wayne. She stops him, then covers the top half of his face, saying, "I recognize [[Lantern Jaw of Justice|that chin]]..." and then declares, "I knew it! You're Bruce Wayne, boy billionaire!"

* Played with in one episode of ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]''. Newly released from Arkham, Harley Quinn is [[Villains Out Shopping|out shopping]] when she runs into Bruce Wayne. She stops him, then covers the top half of his face, saying, "I recognize [[Lantern Jaw of Justice|that chin]]..." and then declares, "I knew it! You're Bruce Wayne, boy billionaire!"

* Taken to extremes for laughs in ''[[Word Girl]]''. Becky almost gets caught in several episodes--including one where her cape is actually sticking out from under her clothing (she's only able to throw off her friend by purposefully flubbing a "vocab bee") and another where a villain tricks her into flying in front of her family--then accidentally zaps away everyone's memory, including his own. Even her parents begin to put the pieces together, but the family pet intentionally distracts them just as they are about to have the epiphany.

* About [[Once an Episode]] for [[Inspector Gadget]], the endearingly inept "world's greatest detective." He'll notice the odd things going on, notice the little man in the coat following him, and completely fail to realize it's his own dog.